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 tennis commentator Patrick McEnroe, and their three daughters.

The Broadway star refers to her new album as “The Film Noir Project,” a reference to a style of moviemaking popular in the 1940s.

Noir means “black” in French, and it was in France that critics first used the term after they admired a particular visual style in Hollywood films — often shot at night.

What’s surprising is how this genre has been given new meaning three quarters of a century after the first of these movies hit theaters after World War II.