Passing the Mic: Melissa Errico Pens Essay on Her Evening at the Democratic National Convention

Broadway's Melissa Errico has penned a humorous and enlightening travel diary of her recent experience performing at the Democratic National convention for The Huffington Post.

The piece, entitled, "Passing the Mic- Diary of a Bus Ride to the 2016 DNC" is a detailed account of her time in Philadelphia at the famed political event.

She writes: "Sitting together in the dark silence of the night highway listening to only Obama's voice, people didn't talk much then. It hit me in my soul. It was the reason I do this at all. It may seem to some that being an actor is about the show itself, the public nature of the work. There is that, no doubt. The other side of an actor's life, perhaps it's the essence of an actor's life, is the chance of an intimacy. A deep connection as a group, a caring that strikes. As we drove along, I think others felt a similar joy, a calm and unspeakable gratitude to have been on a bus together. To have sung. To have shared the mic. Sitting there, I had to think, sure, we had 5 mics to pass around forty stars. It was awkward but essential. Just like democracy."

Miss Errico was among a selection of Broadway's finest tapped to join Broadway for Orlando, an organization whose purpose is to raise funds for the recent Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida, in singing their rendition of Burt Bacharach's, "What the World Needs Now" at the event.

The starry lineup included Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Ben Vereen, Darren Criss, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Rosie Perez Kristen Bell, Debra Messing, Richard Kind, Stephanie J. Block, Rosie Perez, and in a Cagney & Lacey reunion - Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless.

Melissa Errico has starred in seven Broadway musicals and released several major solo CDs:Blue Like That (EMI/Capitol Records), Lullabies and Wildflowers (VMG/Universal), Legrand Affair (Ghostlight/Sony) and the most recent (2015) What About Today? Melissa Errico Live at 54 Below (Broadway Records) which was followed up immediately by a DVD. Her digital releaseMore Lullabies and Wildflowers was released on Mother's Day 2015 as a benefit for the tenth anniversary of her charity, The Bowery Babes, a NY 501c-3.