Melissa Etheridge is not only coming to the window, she’s coming to Broadway!
“It’s like one thing you’ve by no means seen me do earlier than ever,” Etheridge, 62, solely informed Us Weekly of her manufacturing whereas attending the American Theatre Wing 2023 Fall Gala on Monday, September 11. “It’s my life story, it’s music, it’s spirit, it’s love [and] it’s visible.”
She gushed: “It’s a dream come true!”
Etheridge introduced in June that she was Broadway-bound for a quick run. “Melissa is completely satisfied to announce that her acclaimed theatrical occasion Melissa Etheridge: My Window is coming to Broadway for a strictly restricted engagement,” a publish on her Instagram account learn. “Melissa Etheridge: My Window is an intimate expertise like by no means earlier than, inviting theatergoers into an exhilarating night of storytelling and music. From tales of her childhood in Kansas to her groundbreaking profession highlights – with all of life’s hits and deep cuts between – Etheridge opens her coronary heart and soul on stage to fearlessly dazzle audiences of all generations.”
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As Etheridge — who attended that American Theatre Wing profit along with her spouse, Linda Wallem — ready to debut her authentic present on the Nice White Manner, she’s informed Us that she’s discovered loads of new classes alongside the best way.
“Broadway’s actually arduous work,” the musician mentioned on Monday. “[These] individuals put some hours in they usually’re among the better of the very best right here.”
The manufacturing — named after her hit 1993 track “Come to My Window” — premiered off-Broadway in 2022 at New York Metropolis’s New World Levels. Melissa Etheridge: My Window consists of performances of Etheridge’s greatest hits in between anecdotes of her life’s ups and downs.
Etheridge additionally wrote the present alongside Wallem, whom she married in 2014.
“My spouse and I’ve been engaged on this for years,” she beforehand informed TheaterMania in October 2022. “We’ve got been engaged on other ways to return to Broadway as a result of we each have a theater background that we love. Our careers took completely different turns, hers in tv and mine in music, however we simply love Broadway. So when this lastly lined up final 12 months we mentioned, ‘Hey, we will do that!’ We jumped proper in.”
Etheridge made her Broadway debut in 2010, moving into American Fool — a jukebox musical based mostly on Inexperienced Day’s songs — for a weeklong guest-starring position because the character of St. Jimmy.
Melissa Etheridge: My Window begins previews on Thursday, September 14, on the Circle in Sq. Theatre in New York Metropolis. The present’s official opening is slated for Thursday, September 28.
