Melissa Errico

“Melissa Errico is a unique force in the musical life of New York City: a Broadway star, a concert artist and an author who regularly contributes essays to the New York Times. There’s really no one like her!” said conductor Stephen Reineke in introducing her to a sold-out Carnegie Hall audience in 2022. Singer, actress, cabaret performer and author --called a “one of a kind performer” in the Wall Street Journal and described by another critic as “Jessica Rabbit with a PhD.” --Tony Award nominee Melissa Errico is indeed as unique as she is wide-ranging. Her Broadway musicals include My Fair Lady, High Society, Dracula, White Christmas, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, and Amour; while at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles she has starred in The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady and Camelot. Her solo CDs include Sondheim Sublime (called “The finest all Sondheim album ever recorded” by the Wall Street Journal), Blue Like That (produced by Arif Mardin), Lullabies and Wildflowers, Legrand Affair Deluxe Edition recorded with Michel Legrand conducting and arranging his music for Melissa. Most recently, she released “Out of The Dark: The Film Noir Project” which won the coveted Bistro Award as the concept album of the year in 2023. In the past seven years she has also written a series of essays in The New York Times, grouped by the editors as “Scenes From An Acting Life’, and her most recent passion has been to bring her gifts for writing and performing together. Her self-penned cabaret-concerts, where singing and storytelling share the stage, include “Terminal Ingenue”, “Melissa Sings Her New York” and “A Noir Romance”, which sold out for eight Valentine’s week performances at the legendary Birdland jazz club. Of these intimate one-woman shows Broadway World has said that “Melissa is piercing, probing, and at the absolute height of her vocal and interpretive powers. [She] reaffirms her status as one of the most intuitive musical theatre actresses of her generation. There is seemingly no limit to Errico’s empathetic range.” She lives in Bronxville, New York with her husband, Patrick McEnroe, and their three daughters.