“Decked out informally in jeans and a white cotton blouse, the show was aimed at intimacy. With candor and humor, Errico dropped a certain amount of stage glamor for the personal approach of sharing her story with characteristic intelligence and supreme self-confidence, plus wit and humor (speaking of her appearing au natural on stage, she […]
“Boldly, beautifully, and brazenly Melissa Errico wraps herself into each moment, every monological utterance, and all the musical interpretation to be found in these works by Cole Porter, Lerner & Loewe, Lerner & Lane, Rodgers, Hammerstein, The Shermans, Misters Sondheim and Legrand, and more…a lot of things make a Melissa Errico show exciting – the […]
Irish Repertory Theatre will present The Letters Series, featuring Dear Liar by Jerome Kilty & George Bernard Shaw, directed by Charlotte Moore (A Child’s Christmas in Wales) and starring Tony Award nominee Melissa Errico and David Staller; and Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (Endgame), starring Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and […]
The Tony nominee will be joined by musical director Tedd Firth and guitarist JC Maillard. Tony nominee Melissa Errico will premiere her newest cabaret show April 2 at 7 PM at The Green Room 42 in Manhattan. Entitled Terminal Ingénue: The Mis-Education of Melissa Errico, the evening will trace the actor’s history from Broadway ingénue […]
https://youtu.be/pyg6ih-s_z8 By Suzanna Bowling Melissa Errico brings her love for film noir and her new show A Noir Romance, to Birdland just in time for Valentine’s Day. We all found ways to cope during the COVID-19 lockdown, Melissa created an album called Out Of The Dark-The Film Noir Project. Singing numbers from her album, she […]
by David Finkle The versatile, imaginative cabaret performer takes a walk on the wild side Some time ago when performers—usually women—sensationally debuted on Broadway, they were acclaimed the following morning as “the toast of the town.” For its first several years The Ed Sullivan Show was even known as Toast of the Town. But now, maybe because we […]
Melissa Errico is starting a cult of the noir, and she wants you to join! In her latest cabaret venture, Melissa continues her love affair with the music of film noir at the historic venue Birdland. Titled A Noir Romance, Melissa takes us down the YouTube rabbit hole of film noir that captivated her during the […]
The Tony Award nominee will play a week of shows from February 10th through the 14th. Melissa Errico has a real romance going with Noir. Film Noir, the music of the cinematic genre, the look, the feel, the history of the oeuvre – it just speaks to the singing actress, author, and chanteuse extraordinaire. For […]
“Had a blast chatting about my upcoming show at Birdland and #FilmNoir with Len Berman and Michal Riedel this morning at WOR / The Voice of New York / 710AM. I’ll be at Birdland Valentines Day Week (Feb 10-14) for my first residency! I hope you come visit – and stream today’s interview” – Melissa […]
If you’ve ever curled up with a Raymond Chandler novel on a rainy night, or gone bleary-eyed binge-watching TCM’s “Noir Alley,” then you’ll love this conversation Paul Cavalconte had with singer Melissa Errico, author and lyricist Adam Gopnik, and pianist Tedd Firth. They visited New Standards to talk about Out Of The Dark-The Film Noir Project, […]
I can’t think of a better way to ring in 2023 than by presenting my interview with the luminous Melissa Errico. Tune in today to hear some of the stories of her legendary career, including the controversial ending that her production of My Fair Lady almost had, a funny mishap during Anna Karenina, the advantages of dressing the part […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]