During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melissa Errico found herself drawn to songs about isolation and the hope of renewal. 

The Tony Award nominee (“Amour”), singer and writer recorded and released Alec Wilder’s “Blackberry Winter” and Michel Legrand’s “You Must Believe in Spring” during lockdown.

Now, as we appear to be turning a corner on COVID, that hope she clung to is here, and she intends to have it on full display during “Sondheim by the Shore,” part of Holmdel Theatre Company’s “Broadway Outside the Barn” series this summer.

“Now, I’m looking to bust out a little. I may sing some of the more upbeat, driven, crazy Sondheim songs – ‘Everybody Says Don’t!’ and ‘Getting Married Today’ of course, and some soaring songs from ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Into The Woods,’ Errico wrote in an email to the Asbury Park Press.