Musical Theater

When Melissa was four years old, her parents took her to see “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London. Topol, the celebrated Israeli actor, starred as Tevye, the Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russian in 1905, struggling with changes in society and in his own family. Since that time, Melissa has had a life-long love of musical theater. She has attended Broadway musicals in New York, in London's West End, in Los Angeles,  and performed as a keyboard musician in numerous musicals.

As an undergraduate, while Melissa was in New York to perform at Carnegie Hall with her college choir, she and her parents saw "Ragtime," at the Ford Theater in New York. It immediately became a family favorite. To hear Melissa perform the title song from "Ragtime," click here: "Ragtime"

While a doctoral student at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, Melissa was the keyboardist for the world premier of the musical “American Dreams” at the Eclectic Company Theatre in North Hollywood. In 2006, she accompanied the Theater Palisades Kids productions of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “42^nd Street.”

Since 2006, Dr. Sky-Eagle has been the Musical Director and performs as keyboardist at the Class Act Musical Theatre in Woodland Hills, California. Click here to visit the Class Act website: www.classacttheatre.net

Listed below are some of the musical theater productions that Melissa has played for: