Melissa Errico: Sondheim More Sublime: Melissa Remembers Stephen

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Doors: 6:00pm // Show: 7:30pm

MELISSA ERRICO: Sondheim More Sublime: Melissa Remembers Stephen

“The finest all-Sondheim album ever recorded”, that was the Wall Street Journal’s ecstatic verdict on Melissa Errico’s album “Sondheim Sublime.” Now, Melissa brings her glamour, her gorgeous silvery voice, her unique expressive gifts and the immaculate vocal style that Sondheim loved , all to bear in a concert of the greatest songs of the greatest Broadway composer of his time. From “Send In The Clowns” to “No One Is Alone,” Melissa will sing all the Sondheim standards, and offer stories and insights as well from her decades’ long relationship with the composer. Come hear why one critic said that hearing Melissa singing Sondheim left him, “Stunned into an amazing feeling of having witnessed something life changing, life enhancing and of incredible beauty...an unforgettable evening.”

"Errico is the finest interpreter of Sondheim's music in America today" -The New Yorker Magazine

BIO

“The Maria Callas of American musical theater,” as Opera News has called her, referencing both her crystalline voice and dramatic, expressive intensity, Melissa Errico is a Tony Award-nominated Broadway star -- an actor, singer and author -- who contributes regularly to The New York Times in an essay series called “Scenes From An Acting Life.” The Wall Street Journal recently referred to her as a "nonpareil cabaret singer".

Her 2018 album, Sondheim Sublime, was called by The Wall Street Journal “The best all-Sondheim album ever recorded,” and led to sold-out concert dates around the country--from Ravinia to Caramoor and Wolftrap--and in London. She has sung many concerts (of Sondheim music as well as other repertoire such as R&H, Scott Frankel, evenings with Michael Feinstein, and more) at the 92 St Y, Birdland, 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall and Lincoln Center’s Allen Room. Errico’s history with Sondheim began when he selected her to star as Dot in Sunday In The Park With George at The Kennedy Center, then as Clara in Passion at Classic Stage Company; then in the NY City Center Encores! production of Do I Hear A Waltz? In 2020, she sang “Children and Art” in the Sondheim 90th Birthday Concert “Take Me To The World,” and was featured on PBS television in a documentary special in which she sang “Finishing The Hat” and discussed Sondheim and his lyrics with Adam Gopnik and Raul Esparza for Poetry in America. She was also featured in The New York Times tribute to Sondheim in Nov, 2021.

Her latest album, Out Of The Dark: The Film Noir Project was just released from Warner Music/Ghostlight Records and as a musical theater actress, she starred on Broadway in such musicals as My Fair Lady where The New York Times called her Eliza Doolittle “beguiling” Anna Karenina, High Society as Tracey Lord, Amour (Tony-nominated for Best Actress), Dracula, White Christmas in the Rosemary Clooney role of Betty, and as Cosette in Les Miserables. At The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, she starred in The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady (with John Lithgow), and Camelot (with Jeremy Irons) which she revived for one night on Broadway. She has five Drama Desk nominations, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Helen Hayes nominations and four Drama League Honors and a Tony Award nomination. She was honored with a Sardi’s caricature and also served a term on the National Endowment For The Arts.

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