Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer and author Melissa Errico (My Fair Lady, Dracula, Les Misérables) has announced a fabulous array of upcoming shows, from Sondheim in the City at the Princeton Festival on June 8 to The Fitzgeralds with Alec Baldwin in East Hampton, NY on August 16 and beyond – see full tour dates below.
These shows follow Errico’s latest mesmerizing musical presentation earlier this month in the Washington, D.C. area, The Story of a Rose: A Musical Reverie on The Great War – available for the world to watch online soon. Errico stepped into her most personal role yet as her own great Aunt Rose, a Ziegfeld Follies star and Italian immigrant who lived through the upheaval of WWI. Produced by The Doughboy Foundation and presented by the Gary Sinise Foundation, WBGO / NPR deemed it “dazzling,” while Air Mail called it “her smartest, most resonant, and substantial palimpsest yet,” and Broadway World agreed it is “musical perfection.”
Acclaimed by Broadway World for “stringing together a mixture of holiday favorites and Broadway classics recast as holiday songs, plus a few off the beaten path,” Melissa Errico returns in radiant form, joined by jazz luminary Billy Stritch, for a dazzling and original holiday concert. Blending timeless American Songbook standards with inventive interpretations of seasonal favorites, this whimsical debut casts Errico as Mrs. Santa herself who at last sits down to pen her long-overdue memoir. Through a playful and heartfelt song list, she reveals the untold story of the Santas’ courtship, their life at the North Pole, and even a cheeky flirtation with the head elf who stays behind. Expect romantic mischief (“Baby, It’s Cold Outside”), the joys of toy-making (“When She Loved Me”), and a heartfelt reconciliation (“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”). The evening sparkles with selections like “Rudolph,” “Always True to You in My Fashion,” and “Sleigh Ride,” alongside clever parodies such as “Too Darn Cold” and a hard-swinging “Holiday Feeling,” all brought to life with a fiery jazz trio.
Actress, recording artist and writer Melissa Errico has been called, at her Carnegie Hall debut in 2022, “a unique force in the life of the New York theater– there’s no one quite like her!” A Tony-nominated actress for her mentor Michel Legrand’s “Amour” on Broadway – and star of such Broadway musicals as “My Fair Lady”, “High Society”, “White Christmas”, “Les Misérables” & more— she has come into her distinct own in recent years with concerts and cabarets touring the world that spin together vital and witty talk with the sublime singing that had Opera News dub her “The Maria Callas of the American musical theater.” Stephen Sondheim and Legrand, among others, have been the subjects of her solo concerts – her 2019 album “Sondheim Sublime” was called, by the Wall Street Journal, “The finest solo Sondheim album ever recorded”. She is touring her new album, the acclaimed “Sondheim in the City” —culminating in her London solo concert hall debut at Cadogan Hall on July 12, 2025. She has also recently appeared as Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the play “Dear Liar” at the Irish Rep and premiered the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine last fall in an unforgettable concert at the Metropolitan Museum’s Cloisters, singing a new David Shire/ Adam Gopnik musical penned for her. In addition, she writes regularly about the comic twists and turns in the life of a performer for The New York Times, in a series dubbed by the newspaper “Scenes From An Acting Life.” From Paris, where she appeared last summer with her frequent concert mate Isabelle Georges at the Bal Blomet, to London, where she is a regular at Crazy Coqs cabaret – from the Elysée Palace to the stages of the Grand Rex, Montreal Jazz Festival and Carnegie Hall – she brings her inimitable mind, spirit, voice and soul to audiences around the world.
MELISSA ERRICO UPCOMING SHOWS:
STAGE FRIGHT AT RED EYE
June 4th @ Red Eye New York
Melissa returns to Red Eye New York in the Pride Month lineup for the cabaret-meets-confessional series, STAGE FRIGHT, hosted by Out100’s Marti Gould Cummings, with Drama Desk Nominee Yaz Fukuoka on the keys.
SONDHEIM IN THE CITY – THE PRINCETON FESTIVAL
June 8 @ Performance Pavilion – Morven Museum & Garden (Princeton, NJ)
After wowing audiences at NJPAC on May 17, Errico continues her “Countdown To London,” the final stops on her 16-month tour promoting her acclaimed tribute album to Stephen Sondheim. Hailed by The New York Times as “a work from one of Sondheim’s deepest-hearted and lightest-touch interpreters” and by Gramophone UK for “bringing the musical theater compilation to a new level,” Errico delights with a cabaret-style tribute to Broadway’s greatest songwriter, Stephen Sondheim. She offers an outward-driven, kaleidoscopic street fair of New York scenes and moments – summoning back to life the poetic vision of a man who once confessed that his entire creative life had been spent in a twenty-block radius of Manhattan.
IRISH REP CELEBRATES THE MUSIC OF VAN MORRISON
June 9 @ The Town Hall (New York, NY)
Melissa Errico is appearing in a starry Van Morrison tribute program, including Kate Baldwin (The Dead, 1904), Kathryn Gallagher (Jagged Little Pill), Peter Gallagher (Left on Tenth), Kelli O’Hara (Days of Wine and Roses), Ciaran Sheehan (The Phantom of the Opera), Gary Troy (The Dead, 1904), and Nik Walker (Spamalot). Errico has enlisted Clifford Carter (The James Taylor Band) to arrange and perform an original arrangement of “The Way Young Lovers Do” with the pop orchestra.
MELISSA ERRICO SINGS SONDHEIM
June 20-21 @ 54 Below (New York, NY)
June 21 show also livestreamed
In a sparkling evening of Stephen Sondheim’s sublime songs side by side with engaging stories of his craft and life, Errico’s admiration for her friend and teacher — she refers to his wisdom and inspiration as “life-saving, sheer joy, giving us all creative courage ” — is always evident. This two-night only New York engagement is a preview of her upcoming concert hall debut in London. Errico worked with Stephen Sondheim on productions of Sunday in the Park with George, played the Baker’s Wife in a concert run of Into The Woods and more. She has made two all-Sondheim albums, with a third on the way. With musical direction by Tedd Firth and featuring renowned jazz instrumentalist and trumpet player Bruce Harris, the June 21 performance will also feature Tony winner® Len Cariou (original Sweeney in Sweeney Todd).
SONDHEIM IN THE CITY WITH MELISSA ERRICO
July 12 @ Cadogan Hall (London, UK)
Melissa Errico, in tandem with Olivier award-winner Julian Ovenden, brings the genius of Stephen Sondheim to life for a magical night, celebrating the legendary composer’s most iconic works. Errico and Ovenden’s stunning vocals and heartfelt interpretations will take center stage, accompanied by Tedd Firth on piano and a trio from Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Errico is one of the few Broadway divas along with Bernadette Peters, Patti Lupone and Lea Salonga, to have Stephen’s personal seal of approval on their renditions. With her deep connection to Sondheim and his music, Errico will guide you through timeless classics from “Company,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” and more, offering personal stories and insight into her work with the musical theatre legend.
THE FITZGERALDS: A READING WITH MUSIC
August 16 @ Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY)
Marking the centennial of The Great Gatsby, at the heart of this performance lies the extraordinary correspondence between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald — letters that reveal a relationship shaped by ambition, artistry, and emotional complexity. Directed by Stephen Hamilton, this reading features acclaimed performers Melissa Errico and Alec Baldwin, with an original live score by composer/performer Forrest Gray that brings new resonance to the Fitzgeralds’ words. The last time Errico and Baldwin paired up at Guild Hall was for a shattering performance of the American world premier of the Peter Shaffer (Equus) play The Gift of The Gordon. In this turbulent and violent play, Errico played the role originated in London by Judi Dench.
MELISSA SINGS BARBRA: THE STREISAND EFFECT
November 19-22 @ 54 Below (New York, NY)
Melissa Errico debuts a new theme concert called MELISSA SINGS BARBRA: THE STREISAND EFFECT. The coming together of two pure-bred New Yorkers, one the legendary hamische Jewish-comedienne-chanteuse, the other the intellectual-Italian enchantress who has for so long been inspired by her. The “Streisand Effect” is in part, the power of songs and her example of independent-minded pursuit. It’s no accident that in recent years Errico has found herself surrounded by many of Streisand’s greatest collaborators, from composer Michel Legrand to the pianist Randy Waldman, and arranger Peter Matz. The Legrand songbook, from “The Way He Makes Me Feel” to “The Summer Knows” will ring out, as will some of the classics that Errico learned to love from listening to Barbra, many of whose creators became mentors of her own — from David Shire to Marvin Hamlisch, and of course, Stephen Sondheim.
THE SECRET DIARY OF MRS. SANTA
Melissa Errico with Billy Stritch
December 10 @ Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture (Erie, PA)
December 15 @ Parker Jazz Club (Austin, TX)
Austin Cabaret Theatre 25th Anniversary Season
