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MY FAIR LADY (Broadway 1993-1994)
Selected reviews:

"The latest incarnation of Lerner and Loewe's masterpiece stars Richard Chamberlain and a beguiling Melissa Errico... Consider the productionıs take on "I Could Have Danced All Night " which a lightheaded Eliza Doolittle sings after mastering Higgin's vocal exercises and winning his approval. The number unfolds against a deep-blue evening sky this time. A solitary window hangs in the darkness. Below is Eliza's bed, but Eliza wrapped in flannel bunting and bows, is not yet ready to settle down. As Ms. Errico delivers the exultant song, she does a backward somersault on the mattress, dives under the covers, pops right back out again, performs a balancing act on the headboard and generally carries on like a kid on Christmas Eve. The actress is irrepressible, gawky, and altogether endearing. Anyone playing Eliza, of course, can expect to be measured against Julie Andrews. Ms. Errico does not make so fine a fair lady, perhaps. But then I'm not sure Ms. Andrews was ever quite this frisky"
— by David Richards
New York Times

"Like a scene right out of a 1930s film, last weel Melissa Errico walked on stage, in her debut as Eliza Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY, a Julie Andrews-wannabe and walked off Broadway's newest star."
- New York Magazine

"A piquant Melissa Errico makes a nicely pert, beautifully sung Eliza. It is a loverly performance that allows this bewitching show to fly on the wings of Lerner and Loewe's songs."
-Clive Barnes,
NY Post

"The revival's got a scrappy Eliza (Melissa Errico) with a bell-clear voice who tumbles with endearing playfulness while singing "I could Have Danced All Night" and brings spark to "The Rain in Spain."
- Aileen Jacobson
New York Newsday

"Richard Chamberlain is exultant with Melissa Errico. The tall vivid-faced Errico is a young performer with a lot to learn but already a whole lot to give. Her voice has a romantic bloom which sets a full sail on "I could Have Danced All Night." She sings this in her nightdress while doing ecstatic flip-flops in bed- the best choreography in the show."
- Jack Kroll,
Newsweek

"And then there is Errico. Her Eliza is self-confident, big-voiced and utterly warm, shaking up phrasings that were as familiar as lullabies, imprinting each lyric with her own vocal stamp. "The Rain In Spain" is such a joyous epiphany we can barely restrain ourselves from leaping onstage to celebrate with her. She is absolutely loverly!"
— by Jeremy Gerard
Variety

"At the emotional center of the show- Eliza Doolittle- is Melissa Errico, a recent Yale graduate who has beauty, musicality, ebullience and a depth that allows the Act 2 reprise of "Wouldn't it Be Loverly?"-when she sadly returns to her lowly old haunts- to become a deeply moving moment. She may become Broadway's newest star."
- David Patrick Stearns
USA TODAY