Melissa Errico at Birdland Theater: For Valentine’s Day, a Touch of Venus
By Elysa Gardner Returning to the venue for her third holiday residency, the Broadway and cabaret veteran is in the mood for love As a cabaret performer, Melissa Errico is known as much for her erudite patter as she is for her voluptuous beauty and buttery, fluttery soprano. “A critic once called me Jessica Rabbit […]
Before and After Christmas—Two Unique and Brilliantly Entertaining Holiday Shows
By Maryann Lopinto*** Christmas brings many seasonal shows to cabaret, with different takes on the holidays, and starring some of our greatest cabaret performers. I attended two very different shows: We Love the Winter Weather—Songs of the Season at Birdland, with cabaret legends Jeff Harnar, KT Sullivan, Stacy Sullivan and Todd Murray, with musical director Jon Weber. Then three days […]
Melissa Errico: ’Twas the Night AFTER Christmas: A Winter Party with Billy Stritch
’Twas the Night AFTER Christmas: A Winter Party with Billy Stritch 54 Below, NYC, December 26, 2024 Reviewed by Alix Cohen If you’ve ever had Melissa Errico put her hand on your shoulder and sing a couple of lines to you as she wends her way through the audience, you’ll immediately understand what draws people […]
Xmas Party at 54 Below with Melissa Errico and Billy Stritch
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Hot on the heels of Norm Lewis’s Christmas show at 54 Below, and just before 2024 reaches its end, comes “Melissa Errico: ‘Twas the Night After Christmas—A Winter Party with Billy Stritch,” with five consecutive nights of enough expert musicianship, laughter, and surprises to fill a family’s worth of stockings. Errico, […]
Review: Melissa Errico Brings a Different Kind of Holiday Show to 54 Below
Melissa Errico’s ’Twas The Night After Christmas – A Winter Party with Billy Stritch is an inventive, captivating show. It opened last night on Thursday December 26th and continues nightly through December 30th, the night before New Year’s Eve, with all shows at 7 pm. (Tickets are available on 54 Below’s website.) In it, she […]
Review: “Best of Broadway” with the Victoria Symphony
by Eric Greer Had an incredible evening seeing the fantastic Melissa Errico make her Victoria debut with the Victoria Symphony. I’ve been a huge fan of Errico ever since I first bought the Amour cast album, and it was a thrill to finally see her live. The first half was a mix of older musical […]
Review: Deux Grandes Dames with Melissa Errico & Isabelle Georges
“Two seriously great, talented, and fabulous dames leave the audience at their feet.” ★★★★½ Melissa Errico and Isabelle Georges share a serendipitous connection: both played the same role in the same show by the late Michel Legrand. Isabelle starred in “Le Passe-Muraille,” while Melissa performed in the American version, “Amour.” For those unfamiliar with Legrand, […]
Deux Grandes Dames with Melissa Errico & Isabelle Georges
The best cabaret shows not only have a theme to draw together what could be a disconnected list of songs but they also have purpose, a resonance that sets them apart and gives the performer a platform to build what needs to be a conversation with the audience. Melissa Errico and Isabelle Georges understand this […]
Review: ‘Deux Grandes Dames’, The Crazy Coqs
Two for the price of one isn’t always a good deal, but Deux Grandes Dames with Melissa Errico and Isabelle Georges at The Crazy Coqs is a dynamic vehicle for the two “tall” and “leading” ladies. Errico is a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer, and author and Georges; a chanteuse and dancer with a varied repertoire, so together they […]
My View: The City Was Special Last Night….Melissa Errico at 54 Below
By Stephen Sorokoff The evening at 54 Below was advertised as a “ Vinyl Release Celebration Concert” and how apt that VINYL, the unrivaled substance utilized to capture the subtle nuances and breadth of music has now been used to capture the elegant voice of Melissa Errico singing the songs of “Sondheim in the City” for […]
Music Review: Melissa Errico – Sondheim in the City
“****/five stars…throughout the CD, we can indeed feel the vibe of the New York City, where Sondheim lived and created his masterpieces. As the title suggests, the city is definitely the main character of this concept album, from those coming in (‘Another Hundred People’) to those wanting to leave – “Who wants to live in […]
Highly Recommended Album: SONDHEIM IN THE CITY
“’Emotional, authentic, stirring, and gracious with sophisticated interpretations,’ is what I called Errico’s romantic, inward-turning Sondheim Sublime (released in 2018). Now, her new tribute to Broadway’s greatest songwriter, Sondheim In The City, changes tone to offer us a more outwarddriven, kaleidoscopic street fair of New York scenes and moments – summoning back to life the […]