Interview: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Treat with Melissa Errico
Ever the storyteller, a recent recording project casts Broadway veteran and cabaret’s sublime chanteuse Melissa Errico into the shadowy world of Film Noir. Called “The Film Noir Project,” it is a mix of classic titles drawn from Hollywood’s golden age, along with four new titles composed by Michel Legrand, David Shire, and Peter Foley. For […]
Interview: Melissa Errico Joyously Radiating Her EVERGREEN HOLIDAY At Feinstein’s @ Vitello’s
Tony-award nominee Melissa Errico brings her holiday show Evergreen Holiday to Feinstein’s at Vitello’s December 21st & 22nd Fresh from her Carnegie Hall debut last month, Tony-award nominee Melissa Errico brings her holiday show Evergreen Holiday to Feinstein’s at Vitello’s December 21st and 22nd. Accompanied by a jazz trio led by Randy Waldman, Melissa’s special […]
Review: The New York Pops Bust Out Some Broadway With BROADWAY BLOCKBUSTERS at Carnegie Hall
Pops Goes The Broadway… Heigh-Ho, My Merry Rainbow Tribe! Bobby Patrick, your RAINBOW Reviewer here. Putting the silent T in cabareT to bring you ALL the Tea! We all know, my lovelies, that Bobby almost always prefers the close quarters of the dark corners of the cabarets of our city. But every so often we […]
Review: Melissa Errico & Billy Stritch Are So Cool Down In the Basement Giving Us SWING LESSONS At 54 Below
School Is In Session, And What A Session It Was. Heigh-Ho, My Merry Rainbow Lovelies! Bobby Patrick, your RAINBOW Reviewer here. Putting the silent T in cabareT to bring you ALL the Tea! Well, my darling Bobbyfiles, Thursday night’s SWING LESSONS with Melissa Errico and Billy Stritch at the FAB 54 Below was, in the […]
10 Videos That Have Us Primed For Melissa Errico and Billy Stritch’s SWING LESSONS at 54 Below
Two of the most popular and profound artists working in the cabaret and concert circuit today are Melissa Errico and Billy Stritch, and next week these musical storytellers will join forces in a new show premiering at 54 Below. Broadway’s Errico and the jazz master Stritch have an evening of standards planned titled SWING LESSONS during which the […]
Review: Out of The Dark
by Patrick Van de Wiele When the Corona pandemic hit in 2020, and the world locked itself at home, singer and author Melissa Errico suddenly returned to one of her lifelong obsessions, which was “noir”. That dark, unsettling sense of intractable fatalism that Parisian existentialists discovered in 1940s American movies. With Adam Gopnik, Melissa curated […]
Melissa Errico Sings Sondheim and More in PBS Concert
The evening was filmed in April at New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Tony nominee Melissa Errico’s American Songbook concert, filmed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in April, airs June 21 at 9:30 PM ET on PBS-NJ/WNJN (check local listings). The concert will also be available to watch online at MyNJPBS.org. Along with sharing personal […]
Melissa Errico comes ‘Out of the Dark’ with film noir inspired album
One entertainer was inspired by her time in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic to create a new album featuring music that first influenced her as a college student. The new record from Melissa Errico is called “Out of the Dark,” and it came out of the time she spent at home with her husband, ESPN […]
Melissa Errico Will Encore ‘Out of the Dark: The Film Noir Project’ at 54 Below May 11th
The sound of a lonely saxophone, the melancholy patter of midnight rain, the velvet black of a city at night…and one perfect lonely chanteuse in a strapless gown… there’s one word for it: Noir. Its music is essential to the Noir mystique, in vibrating circles of moody inspiration, and to celebrate the release of her […]
Traveling With Broadway Star Melissa Errico
Melissa Errico is someone who appears to be in perpetual motion. The Tony Award-nominated Broadway star, cabaret singer, and actress moves seamlessly between television, film, theater, and concert stages across the globe. Even during the height of the pandemic, Errico barely slowed down or wasted any time. Along with collaborator Adam Gopnik, she curated a […]
Bite-Size Jazz Ep.72: ‘Out of the Dark’
Loneliness. Heartache. Emptiness. Isolation. Everything that describes film noir also describes the pandemic. When Melissa Errico first fell down the YouTube rabbit hole of film noir, she didn’t expect to find a new passion. After watching hours of tragic femme fatale actresses fall trap to their fate and lonely heroes become disillusioned with society — […]
Talkin’ Broadway Out of the Dark Review
Musical theatre and cabaret favorite Melissa Errico takes her cue from the milieu of old movies with detectives and danger, glamorous gloom, romance and regrets. Out of the Dark–The Film Noir Project broadens the pool of source material beyond actual golden moments from the silver screen, but everything shines in a burnished way. It’s more about casting […]