On May 7, Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer and writer and Manhattan native Melissa Errico will perform The Story of a Rose: A Musical Reverie on The Great War at the Schlesinger Center in Alexandria, VA..

Errico has since dazzled audiences with performances in Dracula, Les Misérables, High Society, White Christmas and more, debuting new works at The Met Cloisters and Carnegie Hall, sharing stages with Alec Baldwin, Jerry Stiller and many others.

Melissa Errico joined WBGO’s Doug Doyle to talk about the special concert that’s tribute to love and sacrifice and her special connection to her Aunt Rose, a Ziegfeld Follies star and Italian immigrant living through World War I.