MELISSA ERRICO SINGS OF BLUE SKIES AND LULLABIES
Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com announce the glorious homecoming
of celebrated vocalist & Tony Award-nominated actress Melissa Errico
on Tuesday, December 18th at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC - 212-581-3080
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http://www.birdlandjazz.com/
) with back-to-back shows at 8:30 and 11:00 pm, as part of the long-running
concert series Broadway at Birdland. Melissa returns with a fresh new
show, Blue Skies and Lullabies, directed by Mary Cleere Haran, in which
she will perform songs from her upcoming album Lullabies and Wildflowers,
to be released Mother's Day 2008 on the Velour/Universal Records label.
Her new Birdland concert additionally will feature classics
and standards from songwriters including Judy Collins, Gershwin, Sammy
Kahn, her brother Mike Errico, and, exclusively this evening, a special
emphasis on the legendary Irving Berlin. Perfectly in tune with the
holiday spirit, the one-night-only engagement will swing with gentle
joy and Errico's trademark pop-jazz arrangements of theater and folk
classics and original pop material.
Though Errico first became enchanted with the theater
at an early age, it wasn't until her freshman year at Yale University
that she got her big break, when cast as Cosette in the first national
tour of Les Miserables - a role that only paved the way for future
Broadway star turns in shows as diverse as My Fair Lady, Anna Karenina,
High Society, and, most recently, Dracula the Musical. However, it
was her starring role in Michel Legrand's Amour for which she won
a 2003 Tony Award nomination as Best Actress in a Musical. Errico
also turned a 2004 Off-Broadway production of Finian's Rainbow into
a runaway hit. æ In addition to non-musical roles in acclaimed plays,
including productions with the Irish Reperatory Theater, the Bay Street
Theater, and alongside Lily Taylor in The New Group's "luscious" (New
York Times) hit revival of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon, Errico
released her debut jazz-pop album Blue Like That (EMI) in 2003 produced
by Arif Mardin. She regularly performs in concert, at prominent venues
like Joe's Pub, the Cafe Carlyle, Jazz At Lincoln Center (in duet
with Michel Legrand) and the Kennedy Center.
Recently, she starred in The Sound of Music and opposite
Jeremy Irons in Camelot at The Hollywood Bowl, as well as in the 2006
film Loverboy, directed by Kevin Bacon. In 2007, she made her critically-acclaimed
debut with the Cleveland Orchestra and has a full schedule of symphony
concerts across the U.S. coming in 2008, as well as the anticipated
release of her much-anticipated collaboration recording with Michel
Legrand and Phil Ramone, The Summer Knows, scheduled to hit stores
next Fall.
Tickets are $30 plus a $10 Food/Drink Minimum.
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