Podcast: Edward Seckerson Meets... Melissa Errico
Friday, July 12, 2024
The Broadway star and cabaret artist Melissa Errico talks about the complexities of Stephen Sondheim and how her connection with songwriter Michel Legrand has been developing since childhood
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Melissa Errico, celebrated purveyor of the songs of Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand and a cabaret artist of extraordinary magnetism. Her theatre career on Broadway and beyond has embraced some classics like My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music and Camelot with excursions into Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash’s One Touch of Venus and Michael Legrand and Jeremy Sam’s Amour for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. But she thrives on the intimacy of the cabaret room and on disc she has garnered lavish praise for her two insightful and subtly jazz-inflected Sondheim collections.
Listen to the Musicals Magazine Podcast wherever you enjoy podcasts – on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and below:
‘Deux Grandes Dames with Melissa Errico and Isabelle Georges’ is at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel, on Saturday 13 July at 7pm – visit brasseriezedel.com
The musical excerpts are taken from ‘Melissa Errico: Sondheim in the City’ on Concord Theatricals Recordings, released on 16 February 2024; the opening and closing musical excerpts featured in this podcast are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records.
