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View Comments During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melissa Errico found herself drawn to songs about isolation and the hope of renewal. The Tony Award nominee ( Amour ), singer and writer recorded and released Alec Wilder’s “Blackberry Winter” and Michel Legrand’s “You Must Believe in Spring” during lockdown. Now, as we appear to be turning a corner on COVID, that hope she clung to is here, and she intends to have it on full display during Sondheim by the Shore, part of Holmdel Theatre Company s Broadway Outside the Barn series this summer. Now, I’m looking to bust out a little. I may sing some of the more upbeat, driven, crazy Sondheim songs – Everybody Says Don’t! and Getting Married Today of course, and some soaring songs from West Side Story and Into The Woods, Errico wrote in an email to the Asbury Park Press. ....
How a gala breathed new life, hope into George Street Playhouse, theater No One Else for Me from George Street Playhouse s premiere of Last Days of Summer Replay Video And he paused. He stood there and as he was starting to sing, he just stopped and said, I need a minute, George Street artistic director David Saint said. And he got very emotional and he said, I didn t realize how much it was going to affect me. It s no wonder. Coming more than 14 months after the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered performance venues along with the rest of the world, the moment of return, of singing in a theater, on stage, with lights, sound and a baby grand piano topped with a giant bouquet of flowers has a reverence to it. ....