CD Review: Melissa Errico’s “Out of the Dark—The Film Noir Project”
During lockdown and quarantine, many people spent an inordinate amount of time bingeing TV shows and movies, searching through Netflix, Amazon’s Prime, and other streaming services, for the perfect film or series or genre to fill their days and occupy their minds. Singer Melissa Errico immersed herself in the shadowy, mysterious, dangerously romantic world of […]
BWW Review: Melissa Errico is the Ultimate Femme, Fatale or Otherwise
It was a day of celebration yesterday, as Melissa Errico released a new album and opened a new show, a companion piece to the album, both titled OUT OF THE DARK: THE FILM NOIR PROJECT. Melissa Errico was doing her fair share of the celebrating, but the true jubilation was coming directly from the fans, whether those listening to […]
Melissa Errico Spectacularly Illuminates Film Noir with “Out Of The Dark”
With her new album and show, Melissa Errico maintains her status as a cabaret great. Theme albums can be a rather tricky undertaking sometimes… not for the musical artist – for the listener. Naturally, the artists have a wonderful time conceiving and curating and, then, recording their album of songs by The Carpenters, songs sung […]
NY Stage Review: Melissa Errico Sings Her NY
Roughly ten minutes into her show, Melissa Errico tells us “Now I’m not going to sing all the clichés of the stage-struck New Yorker, but I guess I am going to be the biggest cliché of all, the hyper girl who comes to New York with dreams of being on Broadway. That is the only […]
Melissa Errico Sings Her NY is a Love Letter at 54 Below
“As much a valentine to this city as any Woody Allen film with half the neurosis.” Sometime in May of this year, I started writing for Broadway World. The first review I did of a virtual event (remember virtual events?) was a review of IL PARLE, ELLE CHANTE: MYSTERY which featured Melissa Errico, Adam Gopnik, […]
Review: Melissa Errico Explores ‘Desire’ in Streaming Concert
Love in the time of cholera this is not. Desire in the age of corona (and dare we say, beyond COVID?): yes, indeed! Desire as a concept and a framing device for any piece of art always works but in early 2021, it seems particularly timely. How else to describe the yearning every person reading […]
BWW Review: Love, Desire & Mystery
LOVE, DESIRE & MYSTERY – IL PARLE, ELLE CHANTE faces DESIRE at The French Institute As an uncertain world trembles outside, an errant Philadelphia novelist, a refugee Broadway star, and an expatriate pianist (and secret composer) tumble into a rain soaked Parisian boîte for a late night tête-à-tête. He speaks, she sings, they play… Such […]
Melissa Errico Is Sensational In Bay Street’s “Season For Joy”
On Thursday, December 10, the screens of many different types of devices were filled with Tony Award-nominee Melissa Errico sharing her wonderful talents with Bay Street’s audience as she headlined Season For Joy, a special virtual holiday concert. Errico has a unique quality of friendly humbleness that disarms her audience and draws them in to experience her […]
BWW Review: “Season for Joy” at Bay Street Theatre
In Her Season For Joy, Melissa Errico sings and streams from the Bay Street Theatre stage adding a touch of theatrical beauty to an online Christmas Celebration Look up here my angels! It’s me up here in this shiny soap bubble coming in for a landing (Ohhhhh Ohhhhhh hehehehehehehe) TOUCH DOWN! That’s right my lovely Rainbow Tribe, It’s me, […]
BWW Review: Melissa Errico, Adam Gopnik, And fi:af Debut Stunning Online Concert Series “Love, Desire & Mystery”
Sometimes there are artistic pairings that lead to a plethora of pleasurable experiences. If an artist is lucky (and the world is lucky too) those relationships between arts professionals lead to ongoing collaborations from which the arts community garners some of its greatest works. Note the Liza Minnelli/Kander & Ebb partnership or the Bernadette Peters/Stephen Sondheim connection. What […]