"Office" Star Hardin Releases Christmas Single; New Album Due in 2010

By Andrew Gans
09 Dec 2009

"Office" Star Hardin Releases Christmas Single; New Album Due in 2010

Melora Hardin, "The Office" star who made her Broadway debut in Chicago, has released a new holiday single.

Entitled "Come Home with Me for Christmas," the new recording is now available for download via iTunes. The song was penned by Ben Toth, Hardin's musical director, and Legally Blonde the Musical's Nell Benjamin.

Hardin is also at work on her debut solo recording, "All the Way to Mars," which is due on the LML Music label Feb. 9, 2010. The singing actress collaborated on the disc, which will feature Broadway tunes, standards, pop songs and original material, with director/producer Richard Jay-Alexander.

An actress, singer and songwriter, Melora Hardin's numerous screen credits include "The Office," "The Comebacks," "Monk," "Me, Mom, Dad, and Her," "Gilmore Girls," "Without a Trace," "Thank You for Smoking," "Boston Legal," "Judging Amy," "Once and Again," "Certain Guys," "Erasable You," "Absolute Power," "Renegade," "Touched By an Angel" and "Friends." Hardin was seen as Fantine in the Hollywood Bowl's Les Misérables in Concert, and some of her more recent credits include the Zac Efron film "Seventeen Again" and "Hannah Montana: The Movie."