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b'Melissa is best known for her starring roles on Broadway, but her career is characterized by diverse interests in many creative corners of show business. She has had a steady career in television, appeared in feature films, and performed in non-musical roles in Off-Broadway plays by Shaw, Wilde, and others. She has also explored music as both a recording artist and concert singer, releasing several music albums and working with some of the world\\u2019s best symphonies and jazz and cabaret spaces. More recently, she established herself as a writer, publishing essays in\\xa0The New York Times\\xa0and beyond. As a musical theater actress, she starred in the Broadway musicals\\xa0Anna Karenina,\\xa0My Fair Lady, High Society, Dracula, White Christmas,\\xa0and\\xa0Amour\\xa0which won her a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and began a longtime association with its composer Michel Legrand. Melissa was recently honored with a caricature at Sardi\\u2019s in celebration of her Broadway starring theatrical performances, her concerts as well as her engaging essays for\\xa0The New York Times\\xa0on the actor\\u2019s art.Her latest album\\xa0Sondheim Sublime\\xa0was released to critical acclaim, with\\xa0The Wall Street Journal\\xa0calling it, \\u201cThe best all-Sondheim album ever recorded.\\u201d And throughout 2017, 2018, and 2019, Melissa performed successful and extended runs at Feinstein\\u2019s/54 Below of her solo concert \\u201cMelissa Sings Sondheim\\u201d celebrating the music of Stephen Sondheim and won raves when she brought it to London\\u2019s Live at Z\\xe9del for her sold-out UK concert debut co-written with Adam Gopnik in 2018. She also brought her Sondheim program to The Ravinia Festival in the fall of 2018 and appeared again at Feinstein\\u2019s/54 Below in for the new\\xa0Sondheim\\xa0CD release in November 2018. Her 2019 Sondheim performances include playing The Baker\\u2019s Wife in three concert performances of\\xa0Into the Woods\\xa0with Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley in March, the run of \\u201cWordplay\\u201d at Lyrics & Lyricists produced by Ted Chapin for the 92nd Street Y in April, and being a featured performer on the forthcoming PBS\\xa0Poetry in America\\xa0portrait of Stephen Sondheim. Melissa also returned to London in May 2019 to Live at Z\\xe9del with her Sondheim concert after her sold-out run in 2018.\\nHer solo CDs include\\xa0Blue Like That\\u202f(EMI/Capitol Records),\\xa0Lullabies & Wildflowers\\xa0(Universal),\\xa0Legrand Affair\\xa0(Ghostlight/Sony), and\\xa0What About Today? Melissa\\xa0Errico\\xa0Live at 54 Below\\xa0(Broadway Records; CD & DVD). In December 2017, Melissa had a new single release (Ghostlight/Warner Music Group) \\u201cHurry Home\\u201d written by multiple Oscar-winner Michel Legrand, made an accompanying music video with filmmaker Gary Gardner, and proudly sings it on the title credits of the film\\xa0Max Rose.\\nTelevision roles include the series\\u202fCentral Park West\\xa0by Darren Star,\\xa0recurring roles on Steven Soderbergh\\u2019s\\u202fThe Knick (Catherine), and Showtime\\u2019s\\xa0Billions (June). Melissa also recently finished shooting a role in\\xa0The Magnificent Meyersons, an Eric Oppenheimer film with Kate Mulgrew (2019 release). Her other feature films include\\xa0Frequency\\xa0with Dennis Quaid and\\xa0Life or Something Like It\\xa0as Angelina Jolie\\u2019s character\\u2019s best friend.\\nMelissa\\xa0has also served on The National Endowment for the Arts and has published essays for\\xa0The New York Times\\xa0and is a contributing essayist in Cristina Cuomo\\u2019s\\xa0The Purist\\xa0and other magazines.\\xa0She is married to tennis player and sports commentator Patrick McEnroe and they have three young daughters and a Yorkie named Pepper.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'