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Both as a married couple, and as a creative team, Melissa
& Scott make beautiful music together.
Having met in Redondo Beach, Calif.,
on October 1, 2001 at an audition for the musical, The Secret Garden, Boston native and New York cabaret veteran
Melissa (nee Terban), who had previously sung atop the pianos of Don't Tell Mama and Danny's Skylight Room, introduced
L.A. native Scott Strauss, erstwhile drummer and long-haired rocker at local L.A. clubs, to the finer art of cabaret performance.
After performing together in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat in early 2003, they were married in Boston on July 6, walking down the aisle to music penned by Scott, and
emotionally sealing their vows with the "One Hand, One Heart" duet from West Side
Story.
As a singing duo, the pair
often called “the new Steve & Eydie” enjoy a thriving career writing and performing their own shows in
theaters and clubs across the country.
They
are constant performers at the Academy of New Musical Theatre (ANMT), including the inaugural season of the Perpetual
Surrey Theatrichorale, and Open Workshop.
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Melissa & Scott were featured in the Theatre Palisades
production of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story in 2006. That year, the duo also performed a string of shows at the famed McCallum Theater in Palm Springs. In 2007, they were seen together in two special performances of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, at both Theatre Palisades
and the Kentwood Players’ Westchester Playhouse. That same year, they also took to the Westchester stage in
Sondheim’s Follies.
In the Spring of 2009, the duo shared the stage in the world premiere of a brand new musical
called The Lincolns of Springfield.
Melissa & Scott have begun a new tradition of portraying husband-and-wife characters Mr. & Mrs. Bob Cratchit
each Christmas in The Big Oak Theatre's production of Scrooge - The Musical, starting in the winter of 2010,
and set to do so again in 2011.
Singing highlights for the duo include being
named winners of the Fabulous 570 KLAC's Fabulous Finds show; performing annually in Christmas shows with Bing Crosby’s
grandson, Phil Crosby, Jr.; performing at a film premiere at the Directors Guild of America; Melissa was a featured singer
at Feinstein's at the Cinegrill, in the famed Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood; and every holiday season, Scott’s
original “California Christmas” CD enjoys radio airplay across the country.
Melissa & Scott continue to make beautiful music together, both onstage and off.
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