Melissa Errico to Star in Hollywood Bowl Sound of Music and Perform Gershwin Concert This Summer

Tony Award-nominee Melissa Errico has signed on to play Maria in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music at the 18,000-seat Hollywood Bowl on Friday, July 28th and Sat. July 29 at 8:30 PM, and Sunday, July 30 at 7:30 PM.

Errico will follow her acclaimed performances at the Hollywood Bowl last summer opposite Jeremy Irons in Camelot, and opposite John Lithgow and Roger Daltry in the 2003 concert of My Fair Lady, in which she reprised her Broadway performance as Eliza Doolittle. The production will feature the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (with John Mauceri as conductor); it will be directed by Gordon Hunt with choreography by Kay Cole.

"Before taking her final vows, a high-spirited nun becomes the governess for a widowed Captain's seven children. She captures the children's hearts … then the Captain's. And it's the family's dangerous mountain escape from the Nazis that provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales in musical theater," state press notes for the show. No other casting has been announced.

After The Sound of Music, Errico--who has also been seen on Broadway in Amour, Dracula The Musical, High Society, and Anna Karenina--will switch coasts to perform at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY in The Gershwins in Hollywood: Golden Musicals from the Silver Screen on August 20th, 2006 at 8pm.

The show will feature a first act featuring selections from George and Ira Gershwin musicals-with songs ranging from "Delicious" to "Shall We Dance?" The second act will focus on Ira Gershwin's writing with Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and Harry Warren, and will include songs from A Star is Born. Lee Davis will direct.

Visit www.hollywoodbowl.com for tickets to The Sound of Music.

Tickets for The Gershwins in Hollywood will be available at John Drew Theater Box Office (158 Main Street, East Hampton), by phone at 631-324-4050 or by e-mail at: boxoffice@guildhall.org.