AMOUR- Original Broadway Cast (with Melissa Errico, Malcolm Gets, Norm Lewis)

With a beautiful score by multiple-Oscar winning composer Michel Legrand, the musical AMOUR was based on a surrealist French short story by Marcel Ayme. Set in post World War II Paris, the musical concerns the life of Dusoleil (Gets), a civil servant who discovers he has the ability to walk through walls. With this strange new power, he discovers the secret lives of his neighbors along with a romance of his own (the lonely daydreamer/housewife Isabelle played by Melissa Errico).

The French version, Le Passe Muraille, won the Prix Moliere for Best Musical in 1997, the equivalent of the Tony Award. Amour opened at the Music Box Theatre Oct. 20, 2002; and recorded its acclaimed cast album for Ghostlight Records. Direction by James Lapine and book by Jeremy Sams. With Tony nods for Gets, Legrand, Lapine and Sams was the 2003 Tony nomination for Melissa for “Best Leading Actress in a Musical.”

Conductor:
Todd Ellison

Cast included:
Melissa Errico (Isabelle), Malcolm Gets, Norm Lewis, John Cunningham, Christopher Fitzgerald, Bill Nolte, Nora Mae Lyng, Lewis Cleale and Sarah Litzsinger

“The musical’s charm factor rises exponentially whenever Melissa Errico opens her mouth to sing. This ravishingly pretty actress with a gorgeous, silvery soprano is so naturally beguiling she lifts the spirits merely by sauntering onstage.”
— Charles Isherwood, Variety

“Melissa Errico as Isabelle is joyously sexy.”
— John Simon

“As usual, Errico is exquisite in silvery voice and manner and even executes a saucy can-can- complete with splits- during the madcap trial sequence, a highlight of the show.”
— Michael Sommers, The Star Ledger

“As Isabelle, Melissa sings beautifully and with porcelain clarity.”
— Gordon Cox, Newsday

“It was a hit in Paris, the French were right.”
— Time Magazine 2002 highlights issue

“Melissa Errico is the woman of a every man’s dreams, charming and her voice is magnificent.”
— Robin Carter, WCBS-TV

“Errico possesses an attractive innocence and a lovely singing voice that convey the pain of her solitude and her joy at the possiblities that lie before her. She’s radiant and endearing.”
— Matthew Murray “Talkin Broadway”