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My guest today is a Tony nominated actress, singer, recording artist, and writer.

Melissa Eriko has graced the Broadway stage in iconic roles like

Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and the title role in One Touch of Venus.

She is also one of the most celebrated interpreters of the work of composers Stephen Sondheim

and Michelle LeGrand. of composers Stephen Sondheim and Michelle LeGrand.

Her 2018 album Sondheim Sublime was described by the Wall Street Journal as the best

all Sondheim album ever recorded. In addition to Sondheim, Eriko's interpretation of

Michelle Legrant's music was so profound that she was asked by the New York Times to write his eulogy and was the only American singer invited to perform at his memorial in Paris. In addition to her career on stage and in the recording studio, Eriko is a recent contributing editor to The New York Times

and was the only American singer

invited to perform at his memorial in Paris.

As a native New Yorker and performer

with a long career on the Broadway stage,

I was curious if Melissa Eriko

was a frequent theater goer herself.

Well, I pursued tickets today to Ragtime. I don't go to the theater obsessively.

I don't. Not in recent years. I don't exactly have a good reason. If it's a Sondheim

musical, I never miss it, like ever, nothing, even a gesture.

We're going to get to him, yeah. I never miss a thing. I'm going to, I'm going to check out rag time. It's merely because I'm apparent, I think, you know, but if it's a have to, you know, the Irish rep, you know, or if Bill Irwin is in it, certain things, I'm going to check it out. But so, no, not obsessively.

A lot of my friends are Tony voters.

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