One of the hottest cabaret tickets in town this summer will be the visit of Deux Grandes Dames, New York superstar MELISSA ERRICO and her Parisian soulmate Isabelle Georges, to the Crazy Coqs in London’s Piccadilly on 10 and 13 July 2024.

Here Melissa Errico has all the answers to MTR contributor Jeremy Chapman’s questions about the show and life in general…

We’re very excited about your upcoming show at the Crazy Coqs next month – it’s two cabaret greats for the price of one with you sharing the stage with Isabelle Georges – Deux Grandes Dames. She guested on your last visit to London and blew us away. Tell us about how you got together and what treats you have in store for us.

Isabelle and I met a few summers ago when I was singing in Paris. What brought us together was our shared love for the music of Michel Legrand and, not incidentally, the truth that Michel had been a mentor for both of us. She had sung the same role in his musical, which played in America as Amour, singing in French what I sang in English. The moment we started singing together, we knew that we were sisters. We’re both “grandes dames” – meaning both tall ladies and divas – but her energy is more comic and tap-dancing, French music hall, while mine is more lyric and Broadway stage. Not to sound vain, but, in our way, it’s not unlike the chemistry between Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, the pure sweet-sexy soprano and the antic alto-soprano. I just love being on stage with her. Who can explain what makes a duo work? Ours does.