COTUIT – Cotuit Center for the Arts and Mark Cortale will present Broadway at Cotuit Center for the Art’s production, “Melissa Errico: Sondheim Sublime,” with Ted Firth at the piano next month.
Acclaimed actress – singer – writer Melissa Errico has performed numerous sold-out Sondheim concerts in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and London and now she brings those songs, and her unique vision of Broadway’s greatest living songwriter, to Cotuit.
“I adore the sly and satiric Steve, but for this album, I wanted to tap into a special vein of tenderness and passion that his music offers, a river of emotion that is so deeply sympathetic that it takes my breath away,” said Errico.
“That’s what I think of as the exalted Sondheim, the ecstatic Sondheim – Sondheim sublime, it’s the best thing in the world to sing, all of the time.”
Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal called the album, “The best all – Sondheim album ever recorded, in which radiantly warm singing and sensitive, intelligent interpretation are tightly and inseparably entwined.”
Errico explores the soulful Sondheim, the heartfelt, hungering Sondheim, author of songs of aching love and slowly dawning wisdom, the exalted, and reflective Sondheim.
With pianist Ted Firth, Errico offers a new understanding of Sondheim’s emotional intensity, it’s a program of songs of love and life lessons.
Errico was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress for the musical “Amour”, and starred in “My Fair Lady,” “Anna Karenina,” “High Society,” “Dracula,” “Les Miserables,” “White Christmas,” among many other shows.
She has also released five solo studio CD’s and has performed with major symphonies in the U.S. and U.K.
The show is set to take place Tuesday, July 23rd at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $55, $50 for balcony seats, there is a $5 discount for theater members and a $2 discount for seniors and veterans.
For more information, visit artsonthecape.org, or call 508 428 0669.
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