His Eyes, Her Eyes

Melissa Errico and Malcolm Gets come together in an evening created by these two longtime Broadway friends and co-stars.

Working together on Broadway in AMOUR and FINIANS RAINBOW, His Eyes Her Eyes is an evening of classic love songs, many by composer Michele Legrand as well as traditional Broadway treasures.

Tony nominated for her leading role in AMOUR, Melissa starred in the Broadway revival of MY FAIR LADY, HIGH SOCIETY, many Encore productions at City Center, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE at The Kennedy Center and many others. In winter 2009, Melissa returned to Broadway, starring in the holiday classic WHITE CHRISTMAS, in the “Rosemary Clooney” role.

In concert, she has played every major concert hall and club, including The London Palladium, and has 2 solo CDs released.

Malcolm Gets, best known as “Richard” in NBC’s Caroline in the City, returned to Broadway in 2009, starring in THE STORY OF MY LIFE, a new Broadway musical. In addition, he starred in the fall 2009 Off Broadway production of VIGIL and he has been seen in A NEW BRAIN, PASSION and such films as SEX AND THE CITY.

He has joined Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall and has performed concerts across the country.

Melissa Errico is one of New York City’s most unique talents- a sensitive and dazzling singer and recording artist raised in a musical family, trained on the Broadway stage where she starred in musicals from a very young age, and possessing a voice the New York Times has called “the voice of enchantment.”

In the last few years, Melissa has starred in the Off-Broadway production of FINIANS RAINBOW and went on to star, in quick succession, in MY FAIR LADY, CAMELOT and THE SOUND OF MUSIC at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to sold-out audiences of 20,000 people per night. Her co-stars were the likes of Jeremy Irons, John Lithgow, Roger Daltrey, Rosemary Harris and Marni Nixon, and the critics were captivated.

Melissa’s Broadway starring roles include ANNA KARENINA, LES MISERABLES, MY FAIR LADY, HIGH SOCIETY, ARMOUR and DRACULA. In winter 2009, she returned top Broadway in the holiday musical WHITE CHRISTMAS, starring in the “Rosemary Clooney” role. She has been nominated for 5 Drama Desk Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, four Outer Critics Awards and won the Lucille Lortel Award for her witty portrayal of Venus in Kurt Weill’s ONE TOUCH OF VENUS at City Center.

Melissa was selected by Stephen Sondheim to star as Dot/Marie in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE at the Kennedy Center, and co-starred in the 2004 hit revival of Wally Shawn’s political play AUNT DAN AND LEMON, as well as THREEPENNY OPERA at Williamstown. She is a member of the Irish Repertory Theatre where she has enjoyed great success starring in MAJOR BARBARA and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.

In film and television, she starred on CBS’ “Central Park West” and in the movies “Frequency” and “Life Or Something Like It” opposite Angelina Jolie. In 2006, she appeared as Sarah on "Six Degrees" on ABC.

Melissa enjoys a close collaboration and friendship with her musical idol, the multi-Oscar-winning film, pop and jazz composer Michel Legrand, with whom she has recorded two solo studio albums.

She met Michel in 2003 while starring with good friend Malcolm Gets in the Broadway musical AMOUR, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for "Best Leading Actress." Since then, Michel and Melissa have appeared together at such jazz clubs as Dizzy's at Lincoln Center, Vibrato in LA, and New York's Oak Room and Joe's Pub. In 2006, they recorded their cd- "Another Life" (2007 release)- a romantic symphonic album produced by the legendary Phil Ramone- with a 100-piece pop symphony in Brussels, conducted and arranged by Michel Legrand, including his hits and new material he wrote for Melissa. A follow-up CD collaboration has recently been released.

Her first album was “Blue Like That” on Capitol Records EMI, produced by Arif Mardin, and critics praised it, calling it "gorgeous" (NY TIMES) and "seductive, smart and sexy. Melissa is a singer with talent, taste and imagination" (Washington Post) and placing her as a part of a growing genre of jazz-inflected pop music- for a voice both classic and modern.

Manhattan based, Melissa shares her life with husband Patrick McEnroe, her daughter and her twins. A local activist, Melissa works with the New York City Parks Departments on the improvement of parks on the Lower East Side. Locally, Melissa has appeared in concert at Birdland with her band, singing standards and selections from her multiple CD’s. She has performed as part of the Lincoln Center Songbook Series, as soloist at the Blossom Festival with the Cleveland Orchestra, and with many symphony orchestras across the country.

Together with Malcom Gets, the two have created a beautiful evening of stories and songs…from Arlen to Legrand…and beyond.

Malcolm Gets, an award-winning performer, has joined his best friend Melissa Errico, in an evening of stories and songs entitled “HIS EYES, HER EYES.” The evening, by the two “FINIAN’S RAINBOW” and “AMOUR” co-stars, features great songs from Arlen to Legrand and many standards beyond. Their recent evening of Harold Arlen (alone) has received glowing reviews and standing ovations.

As a solo artist, Malcolm performs his one man concert, “An Evening with Malcolm Gets,” in concert halls across the country. Performing songs by everyone from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim and Charles Strouse to Hoagy Carmichael, Kenny Loggins and even Frederic Chopin, Gets finds this concert evening “…very personal, examining my own introduction to music, mostly through my parents’ original cast albums.”

“It’s a very satisfying experience though completely different from playing a role in a show. For me, the most effective concert evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.”

Whether sharing the stage with Melissa or performing in solo concerts, Malcolm brings the same personal sensitivity to the stage and audience. Malcolm has performed with many symphonies, and has performed at Carnegie Hall in “Mostly Sondheim” with Barbara Cook.” An accomplished classical pianist, he has been seen in such jazz clubs as Birdland in New York.

Gets’ career on and Off Broadway in New York includes his Tony Nominated performance in “Amour,” and in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” for which he won an Obie Award. In 2009, he co-starred in the new Broadway musical “ Story Of My Life” which has been recorded and released on CD.

He received accolades for his recent starring role in the Encores!’ production of The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth, who he affectionately refers to as “some new girl who should go far.” In the concert production, he played Adam (of “and Eve” fame), the exotic Captain Sanjar and the groovy Flip, and calls the show, “a blast–great material, fantastic director and an amazing conductor and orchestra.”

Gets starred opposite Melissa Errico in the acclaimed Irish Rep production of “Finian’s Rainbow” as the leprechaun Og. He went on to reprise his role in the Westport County Playhouse’s, again, opposite Melissa. “I’ve played the part 4 times now–crazy!” he laughs.

In New York, Malcolm played the character of The Writer, In one of his earliest New York appearances–LaChiusa’s “Hello Again” at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in 1993. Malcolm originated the role of children’s show songwriter Gordon Schwinn in William Finn’s “A New Brain” at the same theatre in 1998. In 1994, he appeared as Franklin Shepard in the York Theatre’s production of Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along.”

Recently, Malcolm played Sarah Jessica Parker’s real estate agent in the hit film “Sex and the City,” and in the 2009 HBO movie, “Grey Gardens,” he was seen as Jessica Lange’s lover, who also happens to be a pianist. In the comedy, “Adam and Steve”, he co-stars with writer-director Craig Chester and Parker Posey. Audiences may best recognize him for his co-starring role on NBC’s hit comedy series, “Caroline in the City,” which ran for four years.

In 2009, his debut CD, The Journey Home, was released, featuring a duet with Melissa Errico. The inspiration for the CD is the record cabinet in his parent's living room growing up. “A great deal of the album are old songs from those old shows, done in a new and very simple way. It's a fairly old fashioned CD, featuring songs from Oliver!, King and I, Bells are Ringing, and a few contemporary songs.”

Gets is a member of the advisory panel of Songbook Project. It promotes the art of live performance, by taking performers like myself into the schools, community centers–venues away from the traditional cabaret rooms of New York–and hopefully find some new fans of more traditional Standard and Popular Music.” Standards and popular music will be side by side with showtunes and classical in the concert.