Melissa Errico

Since her precocious debut in the 1990’s in Les Misérables and My Fair Lady, Melissa is known for her silvery voice and incandescent stage presence—for the way she brings a dark theater into glorious sunlight. She has starred in the Broadway musicals Anna Karenina, My Fair Lady, High Society, Dracula the Musical, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and Amour, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and sparked her longtime association with composer Michel Legrand.

Off-Broadway, her most famous performances include her turn as Dot, opposite Raúl Esparza, in Sunday in The Park with George at the Sondheim Festival at the Kennedy Center in 2004 and her subsequent appearances in the Sondheim musicals Passion in 2013 at Classic Stage Company followed by Do I Hear a Waltz? at New York City Center. 

Recent Sondheim performances include playing The Baker’s Wife in three concert performances of Into the Woods. At the Irish Repertory Theatre–which Terry Teachout has called “the finest Off-Broadway theater in New York”–she has starred in eight shows including revivals of Finian’s Rainbow and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever which led The New York Times to say that, “any chance to hear Melissa Errico sing is a chance worth taking,” and The Wall Street Journal to declare that, “no show in which the irresistible Ms. Errico appears could ever be anything but worth seeing.”

Non-musical roles include appearances in George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, under the direction of Tony Walton, and in Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon, a role she reprised in a remote production just this year. For her work in the theater, Melissa was recently honored with the Broadway equivalent of a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame: a caricature at Sardi’s, celebrating her life on stage.