Melissa Errico

Born in New York City, Errico went to high school in Manhasset, New York, while taking dance lessons in Manhattan. Her father is an orthopedic surgeon and concert pianist. Her mother is a former teacher who now works as a sculptor.{{cite news|first=Peter |last=Marks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/theater/from-star-struck-to-star-a-trouper-steps-up.html?pagewanted=2 |title=From Star-Struck to Star, a Trouper Steps Up |work=The New York Times |date=1997-09-07 |access-date=2015-05-29}} She began her professional career at 12, appearing on the syndicated children's TV series The Great Space Coaster.{{cite web|author=Julie K.L. Dam |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20136923,00.html |title=Oh, You Kids – Couples, Melissa Errico |work=People |access-date=2015-05-29}} Errico's maternal grandmother was an opera singer.{{cite news|last1=Klein|first1=Alvin|title='Workshop Queen' Now Riding a Wave|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/23/nyregion/workshop-queen-now-riding-a-wave.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=May 29, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=November 23, 1997}}{{cite news|last1=Clavin|first1=Tom|title=Michael and Melissa Errico team up for a benefit for Pianofest at Southampton Museum|url=http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/news/292126/Michael-and-Melissa-Errico-team-up-for-a-benefit-for-Pianofest-at-Southampton-Museum|access-date=May 29, 2015|work=27East.com|date=July 27, 2010}}

Errico is a graduate of Yale University. During her freshman year, Errico was asked to audition for the role of Cosette while trying out for a different show, and was cast.{{cite web |url=http://www.antonnews.com/manhassetpress/60-manhassetnews/19457-melissa-errico-remembers-where-she-came-from.html |title=Melissa Errico Remembers Where She Came From |publisher=Antonnews.com |access-date=2015-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518084128/http://www.antonnews.com/manhassetpress/60-manhassetnews/19457-melissa-errico-remembers-where-she-came-from.html |archive-date=2015-05-18 }}{{cite web|first=Pat |last=Cerasaro |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/InDepth-InterView-Melissa-Errico-LEGRAND-AFFAIR-20111017# |title=Exclusive InDepth InterView: Melissa Errico & Legrand Affair; Dracula to Sunday in the Park... & More |publisher=Broadway World |access-date=2015-05-29}} Errico took a leave of absence from Yale and performed in a tour of Les Misérables, then returned to complete a degree in art history and philosophy.{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Linda|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/style/a-night-out-with-melissa-errico-and-patrick-mcenroe-lucky-in-love.html|title=A Night out with – Melissa Errico and Patrick McEnroe – Lucky in Love|work=The New York Times|date=2002-07-14|access-date=2015-05-29}} Errico is also a graduate of the British American Drama Academy's 1991 Midsummer in Oxford Programme.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bada.org.uk/alumni/ouralumni/|title=Our Alumni|publisher=British American Drama Academy|access-date=2017-09-13}}

Errico is a guest instructor at HB Studio.{{cite web|url=https://hbstudio.org/instructors/errico-melissa/|title=Melissa Errico|publisher=HB Studio}}

Errico played Cosette in Les Misérables on a national tour. She also played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on Broadway, opposite Richard Chamberlain and Julian Holloway, at the Virginia Theater.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/10/theater/review-theater-my-fair-lady-a-darker-side-to-the-fable-of-a-flower-girl.html|title=Review/Theater: My Fair Lady; A Darker Side To the Fable Of a Flower Girl|last=Richards|first=David|work=The New York Times |date=10 December 1993 |access-date=2018-07-21}} She co-starred opposite Tyne Daly in the New York City Center Encores production of Call Me Madam.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/97b13894cad53836b5866808954a441b|title=A Concert Revival of Call Me Madam With Tyne Daly at City Center|last=Kuchwara|first=Michael|website=APNews.com|access-date=2020-02-24|date=1995-02-17}} In 2002, Errico played the role of Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park with George. The production ran at the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from May 31 to June 28, and Errico's work was recognized with a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Leading Actress in a Musical.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/kennedy-centers-sunday-in-the-park-with-george-previews-may-31-com-106130|title=Kennedy Center's Sunday in the Park with George Previews May 31|work=Playbill|access-date=2018-07-21}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/2003-helen-hayes-award-winners-announced_3471.html|title=2003 Helen Hayes Award Winners Announced {{!}} TheaterMania|access-date=2018-07-21}} In 2003 she co-starred in the revival of the Wallace Shawn play Aunt Dan and Lemon at The New Group directed by Scott Ellis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/melissa-errico-joins-off-broadway-cast-of-aunt-dan-and-lemon-for-the-new-group-com-116320|title=Melissa Errico Joins Off-Broadway Cast of Aunt Dan and Lemon for The New Group|last=Hernandez|first=Ernio|website=Playbill.com|access-date=2003-11-13}} In 2003 Errico also returned to the role of Eliza Doolittle, alongside John Lithgow and Roger Daltrey, for a production of My Fair Lady at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles;{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/complete-casting-announced-for-bowls-my-fair-lady-with-errico-and-lithgow-com-114341|title=Complete Casting Announced for Bowl's My Fair Lady with Errico and Lithgow|work=Playbill|access-date=2018-07-21}} she also starred there in Camelot opposite Jeremy Irons{{Cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/2005/music/markets-festivals/camelot-9-1200523878/amp/|title=Camelot|last=Hirschhorn |first=Joel|website=Variety|date=15 August 2005 |access-date=2005-08-15}} and The Sound of Music with Marni Nixon as Mother Abbess.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/hollywood-bowl-finds-its-maria-for-july-sound-of-music-com-131731|title=Hollywood Bowl Finds Its Maria for July Sound of Music|last=Gans|first=Andrew|website=Playbill.com|access-date=2006-03-31}} Other Broadway starring roles include High Society, Anna Karenina, Dracula The Musical, Amour, Oliver! and Irving Berlin's White Christmas. She is the recipient of a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Michel Legrand's Amour),{{cite web|url=http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/05-2003/2003-tony-award-nominations-announced-at-sardis_3500.html|title=2003 Tony Award Nominations Announced at Sardi's}} and a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in One Touch of Venus.[http://lortelaward.com/previousbycategory.htm Previous [Winners] by Category], The Lucille Lortel Awards, accessed 7 August 2017. In 2013 she co-starred as Clara in the Classic Stage Company production of Stephen Sondheim's Passion, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination for her performance.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/the-58th-annual-drama-desk-award-winners-are-annou_65186.html|title=Learning to Love Stephen Sondheim|last=Lefkowitz|first=Andy|website=TheaterMania.com|access-date=2013-05-19}} In 2016, she returned to the New York City Center stage for the Rodgers-Sondheim musical Do I Hear a Waltz?, for which she won rave reviews.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/theater/review-passion-pursued-with-a-yawn-in-do-i-hear-a-waltz.html|title=Review: Passion Pursued in Do I Hear a Waltz?|work=The New York Times|date=12 May 2016 |last1=Brantley |first1=Ben }} She has also starred in several productions for Irish Repertory Theatre including the musical Finian's Rainbow and her Drama Desk Award-nominated performances in the plays The Importance of Being Earnest{{Cite web|url=https://irishrep.org/show/1996-1997-season/the-importance-of-being-earnest/|website=IrishRep.org|access-date=2020-04-24|title=The Importance of Being Earnest}} and Candida.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/drama-desk-award-nominations-announced-ragtime-and-scottsboro-top-list-com-168127|title=Drama Desk Award Nominations Announced; Ragtime and Scottsboro Top List|last=Gans|first=Andrew|website=Playbill.com|access-date=2020-04-24}} At age 46, Errico returned to the ingenue role Sharon in the 2016 Irish Repertory Theatre production of Finian's Rainbow, an experience she chronicled in The New York Times; she also starred in their production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever in 2018, which she also wrote about in The New York Times.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/theater/on-a-clear-day-my-fair-lady-eliza-doolittle.html|title=I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics?|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=13 July 2018|work=The New York Times}}

Errico has been recognized as an interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's work, with Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal calling her 2018 album Sondheim Sublime "the best all-Sondheim album ever recorded".{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/learning-to-love-stephen-sondheim-1543427965|title=Learning to Love Stephen Sondheim|last=Teachout|first=Terry|newspaper=WSJ|access-date=2018-11-28}} In 2022, The Wall Street Journal said her new album Out Of The Dark: The Film Noir Project "gives us noir music the way we imagine it...melancholy, bittersweet tales of isolation and loneliness, beauty and betrayal—especially relevant at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic...Ms. Errico sings throughout with a tone at once wistful and probing, suggesting that romance and mystery are but different sides of the same coin...we are breathing along with her, seeing what she sees, feeling what she feels...she makes it "uncommonly clear" that we are all silent partners in our own destruction, and that the most we can hope for is a few brief moments of tenderness".{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/out-of-the-dark-the-film-noir-project-melissa-errico-angel-eyes-laura-haunted-heart-city-of-angels-11645571003|title=Music for Moody Mysteries|last=Freidwald|first=Will|newspaper=WSJ|access-date=2022-02-22}}

Errico portrayed Alex Bartoli on Central Park West,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/central-park-west-1200443005/|title=Central Park West|first=Carole|last=Horst|date=11 September 1995}} and has had roles on episodes of Billions[https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/30/entertainment/melissa-errico-subway-hero-trnd/index.html "Billions actress Melissa Errico helped save a man in the subway"] by Lisa Respers France, CNN, August 30, 2019 and The Knick.[https://www.playbill.com/article/melissa-errico-lands-role-in-new-steven-soderbergh-series-the-knick-com-210117 "Melissa Errico Lands Role in New Steven Soderbergh Series The Knick"] by Andrew Gans, Playbill, October 1, 2013

Errico has also appeared on The Jim Gaffigan Show,{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadways-Sydney-James-Harcourt-Matt-Morrison-and-Melissa-Errico-to-Sing-National-Anthem-for-NY-Empire-World-TeamTennis-Season-20160728|title=Broadway's Sydney James Harcourt, Matt Morrison and Melissa Errico to Sing National Anthem for NY Empire World TeamTennis Season|date=28 July 2016|publisher=Broadway World}} Blue Bloods,{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Melissa-Errico-to-Guest-Star-on-BLUE-BLOODS-and-THE-GOOD-WIFE-this-Weekend-20130208/|title=Melissa Errico to Guest Star on BLUE BLOODS and THE GOOD WIFE this Weekend|date=8 February 2013|publisher=Broadway World}} The Good Wife, Law & Order,{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/second-cup-cafe-melissa-errico/|title=Second Cup Café: Melissa Errico|first=Rome|last=Neal|date=23 May 2003|work=CBS News}} A Gifted Man,{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/melissa-errico-and-john-benjamin-hickey-guest-star-on-nov-11-a-gifted-man-com-184452/|title=Melissa Errico and John Benjamin Hickey Guest Star on Nov. 11 A Gifted Man|first=Andrew|last=Gans|date=11 November 2011|publisher=Playbill}} Ed, and Miss Match opposite Alicia Silverstone.{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Exclusive-Seths-Broadway-Chatterbox-With-Melissa-Errico-20120414/|title=Seth's Broadway Chatterbox With Melissa Errico!|date=14 April 2012|publisher=BroadwayWorld}}

Errico has had roles in a number of films, including Mockingbird Don't Sing, Frequency, and Life or Something Like It. In 2013, Errico recorded the theme song for the movie Max Rose. The soundtrack features an original score by Michel Legrand, and Errico sang the main title track, "Hurry Home".{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/exclusive-watch-the-official-video-for-melissa-erricos-new-michel-legrand-single|title=Exclusive: Watch the Official Video for Melissa Errico's New Michel Legrand Single|work=Playbill|access-date=2018-07-21}} In 2019, Errico curated a film festival for French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York City celebrating movies featuring the music of composer Michel Legrand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/melissa-errico-to-curate-michel-legrand-film-festival|title=Melissa Errico to Curate Michel Legrand Film Festival|work=Playbill|access-date=2019-06-07}} In 2021 at the height of the pandemic, The New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and Melissa Errico curated FIAF's new CinéSalon series Out of the Dark: The Mystery of Film Noir. Incorporating both French and American examples—and some that involve French filmmakers who immigrated to America—the series explored the many sides of the 'noir' vision in cinema with special attention paid to the Franco-American dialogue at its core.{{Cite web|url=https://fiaf.org/event_tag/2021-05-cs-film-noir/ |title=Out of the Dark: The Mystery of Film Noir|work=French Institute Alliance Française |access-date=2021-05-04}} The series was co-presented by The Cultural Services, a division of the French Embassy in the United States. The Cultural Services were first imagined in the 1930's by Paul Claudel. In 1945 General de Gaulle appointed Claude Lévi-Strauss as the first Cultural Counselor, with the mission of providing Americans (individuals and organizations) with access and resources to engage with French culture and promote it in their own communities.{{Cite web|url=https://frenchculture.org/events/13252-out-dark-mystery-film-noir |title=FIAF Virtual Cinésalon Series - Out of the Dark: The Mystery of Film Noir |work=French Embassy in the U.S.|access-date=2021-05-04}}

• Blue Like That (Manhattan Records/EMI) produced by Arif Mardin – released February 25, 2003
• Lullabies & Wildflowers (Velour/Universal Records, later Ghostlight Records) produced by Rob Mathes – released April 29, 2008
• Legrand Affair (Ghostlight Records) produced by Phil Ramone – released October 18, 2011
• More Lullabies & Wildflowers (Ghostlight Records) – released June 23, 2015
• What About Today? Melissa Errico – Live at 54 Below (Broadway Records) – released October 16, 2015
• Sondheim Sublime (Ghostlight Records) – released November 2, 2018
• Legrand Affair: Deluxe Edition (Ghostlight Records) – released November 8, 2019
• Two Spring Songs for Summer – released July 10, 2020
• Out of The Dark: The Film Noir Project – released in 2022
• Sondheim In The City (Concord Theatricals Recordings, CT00148) – released in 2024

• Call Me Madam – Encores Cast (1995)
• High Society – Original Broadway Cast (1998)
• Amour – Original Broadway Cast (2003)
• Finian's Rainbow – Irish Repertory Theater Cast Recording (2004)
• Sadie Thompson – World Premiere Recording (2005)
• Anna Karenina – The Broadway Musical (2007)
• One Touch of Venus – First Complete Recording (2014)

• "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" – The Musicality of Lerner & Loewe.
• "The Mockingbird Song" – Mockingbird Don't Sing soundtrack.
• "Blue Skies/It's a Lovely Day Today" (duet with Malcolm Gets) – The Journey Home.
• "In Love In Vain" from Jerome Kern: Life Upon The Wicked S.T.A.G.E.
• "There's a Small Hotel" & "People Will Say We're In Love" (duet with Patrick Quinn) – "Wall to Wall Richard Rodgers".
• "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Weihnachten with José van Dam.
• "Maybe Someone Dreamed Us" from Legrand Affair appears on the Michel Legrand Anthology.
• "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon – "Poetic License" – 100 poems/100 performers, part 3 (available on ITunes).
• "Hurry Home" – "Max Rose" Original Film Soundtrack.

Errico's recording of a song from David Shire's new musical Table was aired in April 2015 on NPR radio on The Jonathan Schwartz show for WYNC.{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/playlists/ |title=Jonathan's Weekend Playlists |publisher=Wnyc.com |access-date=2015-05-30}}

She reprised her performance as Venus at City Center Encores! Broadway Bash! in November 2001.{{cite news|last=Brantley|first=Ben|author-link=Ben Brantley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/20/theater/theater-review-they-happen-to-like-singing-to-beat-the-band.html |title=Theater Review – They Happen to Like Singing to Beat the Band |work=The New York Times|date=2001-11-20 |access-date=2015-05-30}} Errico made her London debut in May 2008 singing in Jerry Herman's Broadway at the London Palladium.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/you-write-the-reviews-jerry-hermans-broadway-palladium-london-824254.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/you-write-the-reviews-jerry-hermans-broadway-palladium-london-824254.html |archive-date=2022-05-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=You write the reviews: Jerry Herman's Broadway, Palladium, London – Reviews – Theatre & Dance|work=The Independent|date=2008-05-09 |access-date=2015-05-30}} In November 2015, she debuted her new one-woman show at Joe's Pub, New York City, co-written with close collaborator Adam Gopnik.{{cite web|first=Hayley |last=Levitt |url=http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/melissa-errico-releases-two-cut-tracks_72806.html |title=Melissa Errico Releases Two Cut Tracks From Her Album Lullabies & Wildflowers – Theater News|publisher=TheaterMania.com |date=2015-05-06 |access-date=2015-05-30}} Errico has toured with conductor Marvin Hamlisch.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/ZMWTC|title=NSO at Wolf Trap: Hamlisch Goes Gershwin – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|website=www.kennedy-center.org|access-date=2016-03-13}} In 2016 she appeared at the David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center, in a talk by Adam Gopnik about Judy Garland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Melissa-Errico-Set-for-HISTORY-OF-THE-WORD-IN-100-PERFORMANCES-Spotlight-on-Judy-Garland-Tonight-20160308|title=Melissa Errico Set for History of the Word in 100 Performances Spotlight on Judy Garland Tonight|website=Broadway World|access-date=2016-03-13}} She also performed at Lincoln Center for their American Songbook Series{{Cite web|url=http://www.vogue.com/article/american-songbook-lincoln-center-scott-frankel-michael-korie|title=Broadway's Best Perform at Lincoln Center's American Songbook Concert|last=Schwartz|first=Zachary|website=Vogue.com|date=19 February 2018 |access-date=2018-02-19}} and at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Michael Feinstein.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabaretscenes.org/2019/06/11/michael-feinstein-i-could-have-danced-all-night-the-lerner-and-loewe-songbook/|title=Michael Feinstein: I Could Have Danced All Night: The Lerner and Loewe Songbook|last=Forman|first=Ron|website=CabaretScenes.org|access-date=2019-06-11}} She has also performed with Feinstein at Carnegie Hall.{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Tony-Award-Nominee-Melissa-Errico-to-Join-Michael-Feinstein-at-Carnegie-Hall-20170307|title=Tony Award-Nominee Melissa Errico to Join Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall|website=Broadway World|access-date=2019-03-07}} In 2017 and 2018 she performed runs of her concert of the music of Stephen Sondheim throughout the U.S. and in London{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/arts/music/sondheim-two-ways-from-judy-collins-and-melissa-errico.html|title=Sondheim Two Ways, From Judy Collins and Melissa Errico|last=Green|first=Jesse|work=The New York Times |date=28 November 2017 |access-date=2017-11-28}} and in 2019, she starred as The Baker's Wife in a concert production of Sondheim's Into the Woods in Long Island.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/west-side-story-into-the-woods-1.27919721|title=Broadway shows live and in concert |last=Merritt|first=Jim|website=Newsday.com|access-date=2019-03-02}} In 2019 she performed concerts featuring the music of Michel Legrand at the Fairmont San Francisco{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/BWW-Review-MELISSA-ERRICO-at-The-Venetian-Room-20190523|title=BWW Review: Melissa Errico at The Venetian Room|last=Murray|first=Steve|website=Broadway World|access-date=2019-05-23}} and in NYC at Feinstein's/54 Below.{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/BWW-Review-Melissa-Errico-Continues-AN-EVEN-GRANDER-AFFAIR-With-Throngs-of-Fans-at-54-Below-20191110

|title=BWW Review: Melissa Errico Continues An Even Grander Affair With Throngs of Fans at 54 Below|last=Mosher|first=Stephen|website=Broadway World|access-date=2019-11-10}} She was the sole American performer at the two-day memorial concert for Legrand in April, 2019 at Paris' Grand Rex{{cite web|url=https://laregledujeu.org/2019/06/11/34980/extravagance-et-genie-de-michel-legrand/ |title=Extravagance et génie de Michel Legrand |publisher=laregledujeu.org |date=2019-06-11}} and she also performed at London's Legrand memorial concert in September, 2019 at Royal Festival Hall.{{cite web|url=https://londonjazznews.com/2019/09/23/michel-legrand-remembered-at-rfh/|title=Michel Legrand Remembered at RFH|publisher=LondonJazzNews.com|date=2019-09-23}} In 2019 she also performed the National Anthem at Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open.{{Cite web|url=https://navysports.com/news/2019/9/2/mens-tennis-us-open-renames-annual-military-appreciation-day-in-honor-of-joe-hunt.aspx|title=U.S. Open Renames Annual Military Appreciation Day in Honor of Joe Hunt|website=NavySports.com|access-date=2019-03-02}} On March 22, 2020, to celebrate his 90th birthday, Guild Hall of East Hampton premiered her Stephen Sondheim concert on YouTube with an exclusive livestream.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/arts/theater-dance-classical-art-stay-home-virus.html|title=Great Theater, Dance and Classical Music to Tune Into While Stuck at Home|work=The New York Times|date=2020-03-20}}

On November 18, 2022 Errico made her debut at Carnegie Hall, performing/co-starring with the New York Pops in their concert Broadway Blockbusters.{{cite web|url=https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2022/11/18/The-New-York-Pops-0800PM|title=Broadway Blockbusters|work=Carnegie Hall|date=2022-11-21}}

In June 2023 Errico opened for George Benson at the Montreal International Jazz Festival at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier before a sold-out crowd of 3,000 people, singing a set of music by her mentor the late Michel Legrand. Of the performance, London Jazz News wrote “Errico was energized, making sure with every breath that she would get the audience in the 3000-seater Pelletier really on her side. Every high note was heroically held, and she got a standing ovation from this audience. Montreal audiences always want to show their warmth and this one made her deservedly welcome.”{{cite web|url=https://londonjazznews.com/2023/06/30/dispatches-from-fijm-2023-in-montreal-1-opening-night-round-up|title=Dispatches from Montreal (1)|work=London Jazz News|date=2023-06-30}} Added the Quebec Journal, in its review, "It was the Italian-American chanteuse Melissa Errico who was responsible for energizing the concert hall, and that she did, expressing herself as fluently in French as in English, and offering a memorable reprise of Legrand's "Valse des Lilas/Once Upon A Summertime."{{cite web|url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2023/06/29/debut-du-fijm--george-benson-remi-bolduc-et-remi-cormier-en-action/|title=International Jazz Festival|work=Montreal Journal|date=2023-06-30}}

She has two siblings – Mike Errico and Melanie Errico. She met her husband, former tennis professional and ESPN sports commentator Patrick McEnroe, when they were in grade school together.{{cite web|first=Spencer |last=Rumsey |url=http://www.longislandpress.com/2013/01/01/melissa-errico-hits-all-the-notes/ |title=Melissa Errico Hits All The Notes|website=Longislandpress.com |date=2013-01-01 |access-date=2015-05-30}} They married on December 19, 1998, at the Holy Trinity Church on W. 82nd Street.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/20/style/weddings-melissa-errico-patrick-mcenroe.html |title=Weddings – Melissa Errico, Patrick McEnroe|work=The New York Times|date=1998-12-20 |access-date=2015-05-30}} She lives in New York with their three daughters.{{cite news|url=https://www.lohud.com/story/life/2017/04/18/melissa-errico-patrick-mcenroe-bronxville/99877140/ |title=Melissa Errico, Patrick McEnroe savor Bronxville|work=LoHud|date=2017-04-18}}

She has penned several columns in The New York Times since 2016 providing wry and illuminating takes on the performers' life. These include columns which discuss returning to ingenue roles later in life,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/theater/im-46-is-that-too-old-to-play-the-ingenue.html|title=I'm 46. Is That Too Old to Play the Ingénue?|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=28 August 2016|work=The New York Times}} her experience as a headliner performer on a themed cruise,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/theater/the-stage-door-at-sea-a-broadway-star-on-her-first-fan-cruise.html|title=The Stage Door at Sea: A Broadway Star on Her First Fan Cruise|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=6 April 2017|work=The New York Times}} gender politics, her time with composer Michel Legrand,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/theater/michel-legrand-composer-appraisal.html|title=Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand|work=The New York Times|date=28 January 2019 |last1=Errico |first1=Melissa }} the recent trend of home-taping for auditions,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/theater/audition-videos-for-actors.html|title=Get Out of My Light, Honey. I'm Auditioning Here.|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=30 August 2019|work=The New York Times}} the process of digitally rehearsing and producing a full musical production of Meet Me in St. Louis during the COVID-19 pandemic,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/theater/melissa-errico-meet-me-in-st-louis.html|title=Just Me and the Music and the Green Screen|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=8 December 2020|work=The New York Times}} a costume fitting for her first live concert since the pandemic began,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/theater/melissa-errico-costume-fitting.html|title=Back in the Girdle Again: Getting Fitted After a Year Untouched|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=5 March 2021|work=The New York Times}} an essay about being on the road examining a performer's life, before and after the pandemic,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/theater/melissa-errico-concerts-pandemic-travel.html|title= A 'Girl Singer' and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=27 Nov 2022|work=The New York Times}} and a profile piece on cabaret icon Marilyn Maye ahead of her 95th birthday and long-awaited Carnegie Hall debut.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/theater/marilyn-maye-carnegie-hall.html|title= The Unsinkable Marilyn Maye|first=Melissa|last=Errico|date=19 March 2023|work=The New York Times}}

She wrote an expanded article on her experiences with Legrand, which was published in the French magazine {{ill|La Règle du jeu (magazin)|fr|La Règle du jeu (revue)|lt=La Règle du Jeu}}.{{cite web|url=https://laregledujeu.org/2019/06/11/34980/extravagance-et-genie-de-michel-legrand/|first=Melissa|last=Errico|title=Extravagance et génie de Michel Legrand|website=laregledujeu.org|date=2019-06-11|language=fr}}

She has also written several essays for the wellness/lifestyle magazine The Purist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepuristonline.com/2019/12/a-winter-reflection/|title=A Winter Reflection|last=Errico|first=Melissa|website=ThePuristOnline.com|date=13 December 2019 |access-date=2020-06-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepuristonline.com/2019/10/wide-screen/|title=Wide Screen|last=Errico|first=Melissa|website=ThePuristOnline.com|date=2 October 2019 |access-date=2020-06-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepuristonline.com/2019/06/singing-the-sublime-with-melissa-errico/|title=Singing the Sublime with Melissa Errico|last=Errico|first=Melissa|website=ThePuristOnline.com|date=23 June 2019 |access-date=2020-06-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepuristonline.com/2019/04/pure-love-i-heart-tm/|title=Pure Love: I Heart TM|last=Errico|first=Melissa|website=ThePuristOnline.com|date=12 April 2019 |access-date=2020-06-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepuristonline.com/2017/09/tennis-wife-a-personal-essay/|title=Pure Love: Tennis Wife: A Personal Essay|last=Errico|first=Melissa|website=ThePuristOnline.com|date=2 September 2017 |access-date=2020-06-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepuristonline.com/2017/07/the-pleasure-principle/|title=The Pleasure Principle|last=Errico|first=Melissa|website=ThePuristOnline.com|date=2 July 2017 |access-date=2020-06-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepuristonline.com/2017/05/melissa-errico-having-second-thoughts-dont-think-twice-about-it/|title=Melissa Errico: A Life Of Mindfulness|last=Errico|first=Melissa|website=ThePuristOnline.com|date=25 May 2017 |access-date=2020-06-03}}

Errico was a principal speaker at the Annual Broadway Blessing in 2013.{{cite web|last=Yarger |first=Lauren |url=http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/gathering-for-broadway-blessing.html#.VU-S7vlViko |title=Reflections in the Light: Gathering for the Broadway Blessing |publisher=Reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.co.uk |date=2013-09-10 |access-date=2015-05-30}}{{cite web|url=http://www.clydefitchreport.com/2013/09/the-blessings-of-the-broadway-blessing/ |title=The Blessings of the Broadway Blessing |publisher=Clydefitchreport.com |date=2013-09-06 |access-date=2015-05-30}}

Errico founded the Bowery Babes in 2005, and continues to serve in an advisory capacity.{{cite web|url=http://www.bowerybabes.com/board.php|title=About Us|access-date=2018-08-29}} She performed at Merkin Concert Hall in June 2015 to support the Ali Forney Center, which assists homeless LGBT youth.{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/Michael-Feinstein-Molly-Pope-More-Join-NIGHT-OF-A-THOUSAND-JUDYS-LINEUP-20150527 |title=Michael Feinstein, Molly Pope & More Join Night of a Thousand Judys Lineup |publisher=Broadway World |access-date=2015-05-30}} She has supported the non-profit arts organization Sing For Hope{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Sing-for-Hope-Announces-2013-ART-FOR-ALL-Gala-Line-Up-Melissa-Errico-The-Maccabeats-and-More-20131011|title=Photo Flash: Sing for Hope Announces 2013 Art for All Gala Line-Up – Melissa Errico, The Maccabeats and More!|date=11 October 2013|publisher=Broadway World}} and non-profit camp SAY, for children who stutter.{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Coverage-Broadway-Supports-SAY-at-Paul-Rudds-All-Star-Bowling-Benefit-20170214|title=Photo Coverage: Broadway Supports SAY at Paul Rudd's All-Star Bowling Benefit|first=Walter|last=McBride|date=14 February 2017|publisher=Broadwayworld}} Errico appeared in Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, a fundraiser for Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP) in April 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/199153/more-stars-take-me-to-the-world-a-sondheim-90th-birthday-celebration-just-got-even-bigger/|title=More Stars! Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration Just Got Even Bigger|publisher=Broadway.com |access-date=2020-04-27}}

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