TONY® Award–Nominated Broadway Actress, Singer & Writer Melissa Errico Shares New Single & Video“Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year”
From Forthcoming American Songbook Album I Can Dream, Can’t I?
Out January 30th, 2026
More Music Coming Soon
“The Maria Callas of American musical theater” – Opera News
“One of a kind performer” – The Wall Street Journal
“Ethereal, gorgeous, elegant, popular...with inward emotion and real artistry.” – The New York Times
Thursday, December 18 — Tony® Award–nominated Broadway actress, singer and author Melissa Errico (My Fair Lady, Les Misérables, High Society) has shared her new single a luminous rendition of Frank Loesser’s 1943 ballad, “Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year,” from her forthcoming American Songbook album I Can Dream, Can’t I?, out January 30, 2026.
First heard in the Deanna Durbin film Christmas Holiday, “Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year,” remains one of Loesser’s most quietly affecting works. Its deceptively simple melody and lyric threaded with small hesitations give the song its particular poignancy—an intimate portrait of someone waiting for emotional spring to return. Errico's interpretation, poetically accompanied by Tedd Firth, transforms the classic into a private, wintry confession—soft-spoken, resilient, and glowing with bittersweet light.
Melissa describes it as “about our inner weather: hopes falter — as we know— and renewal can be delayed. Tenderness survives the chill, and I tried to explore that sense of looking for inner strength.”
Today’s release continues the song-by-song rollout of the album and arrives with the track’s official music video – a “lonely Christmas” vignette capturing Melissa wandering the streets of New York City alone during the holidays, a quiet, cinematic portrait of bittersweet solitude that mirrors the song’s reflective melancholy. The video is available now on her YouTube channel.
The new single follows her recent three-track bundle — “But Beautiful,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” and “Remind Me.” It also expands upon earlier album previews, including the dazzling first single “When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)”and her two-song bundle “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” / “I Didn’t Know About You,” of which Riff Magazine declared, “Errico’s rich voice is perfect for this sweet, jazzy song.”
Accompanied by Tedd Firth on piano, I Can Dream Can’t I? arrives as a collection of standards that are far from standard. Though many of the songs are familiar, even classics, they evade the usual categories of American music: the torch song, the ‘I want’ number, the patter-comedy turn, the wash-that-man-out-of-my-hair song. An intuitively discovered body of work, these are songs of conversation and reflection, songs that ask themselves questions privately, more than they declare their desires loudly and publicly.
The album consists of songs of self-reliance and self-reflection, often sad, even when the feelings resolve in equipoise. These tracks are drawn from what Melissa calls “the field of poppies from which sprang Sondheim’s opium.” Errico’s years singing Sondheim, in the ever-extended Sondheim project, have brought her a new and unusual delicacy with the standards. Her diction, her clarinet of a voice, and all the skill learned in the classroom of the self-conscious ironies and comma-bound contradictions of Sondheim are applied to rediscover the emotional resources of the American Songbook. The music originally comes from greats such as Frank Loesser, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Peggy Lee, Van Heusen, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern, Sammy Fain, Dave Frishberg, Dori Caymmi, and Joni Mitchell. Meanwhile, the original lyrics were penned by Carolyn Leigh, Dorothy Fields, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Burke, and more. Check out the full track listing below.
So far, 2025 has been a landmark year for Errico. She made her London concert hall debut at Cadogan Hall with Sondheim in the City Live!, earning a standing ovation—joined Alec Baldwin for a performance in East Hampton, NY during The Fitzgeralds: A Reading with Music, and debuted her new live project, The Streisand Effect, performing alongside Barbra Streisand’s band in both Long Beach, CA and New York, NY, earning rave reviews.
A sold-out, high-energy run – one that The Wall Street Journal praised as “a glamorous and brilliantly-sung homage to Streisand” that transforms into “a moving tale of Errico finding her own voice – and making it sound better, and her audience feel better, than ever” — included a surprise on-stage moment with Liz Callawayand reinforced Errico’s standing as one of cabaret’s most original and sophisticated storytellers. Critics raved that Errico was “singing at the top of her game,” delivering Streisand classics with such command that she “aces every number” and even“matched Barbra Streisand with her vocal artistry” (BroadwayWorld).
See all tour dates and ticket links HERE.
Stay tuned for more music and announcements from Melissa Errico coming soon.
I Can Dream Can’t I? Tracklist
1. When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)
(In the Name of Love, 1964)
Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh
2. I Can Dream, Can’t I?
(Right This Way, 1937)
Music by Sammy Fain, Lyrics by Irving Kahal
3. I Didn’t Know About You
(1944)
Music by Duke Ellington, Lyrics by Bob Russell
4. There’ll Be Another Spring
(Beauty and the Beat, 1959)
Music & Lyrics by Peggy Lee, Contributions: Hubie Wheeler
5. But Beautiful
(The Road to Rio, 1947)
Music by James Van Heusen, Lyrics by Johnny Burke
6. Dancing On The Ceiling
(Evergreen, 1930)
Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
7. Remind Me
(One Night in the Tropics, 1940)
Music by Jerome Kern, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
8. Like A Lover
(Look Around, 1967)
Music by Dori Caymmi, Lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman
9. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
(Christmas Holiday, 1943)
Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser
10. All In Fun
(Very Warm for May, 1939)
Music by Jerome Kern, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
11. Lost In His Arms
(1946)
Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin
12. Listen Here
(1979)
Music & Lyrics by David Frishberg
13. Both Sides Now
(Clouds, 1966)
Music & Lyrics by Joni Mitchell
Bonus Track:
13. After You, Who?
(Gay Divorce, 1932)
Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Tour Dates
2026
2/14-2/16 - New York, NY - Birdland Jazz Club
3/22 - Mamaroneck, NY - Emelin Theatre
3/28 - Las Vegas - The Smith Center
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Photo Credit: Matt Baker |
About Melissa Errico
Actress, recording artist and writer Melissa Errico has been called, at her Carnegie Hall debut in 2022, “a unique force in the life of the New York theater-- there’s no one quite like her!” A Tony-nominated actress for her mentor Michel Legrand’s “Amour” on Broadway - and star of such Broadway musicals as “My Fair Lady”, “High Society”, “White Christmas”, “Les Misérables” & more— she has come into her distinct own in recent years with concerts and cabarets touring the world that spin together vital and witty talk with the sublime singing that had Opera News dub her “The Maria Callas of the American musical theater.” Stephen Sondheimand Legrand, among others, have been the subjects of her solo concerts – her 2019 album “Sondheim Sublime” was called, by the Wall Street Journal, “The finest solo Sondheim album ever recorded”. She is touring her new album, the acclaimed “Sondheim in the City” —culminating in her London solo concert hall debut at Cadogan Hall on July 12, 2025. This past spring, Errico debuted The Story of a Rose: A Musical Reverie on The Great War at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall in Alexandria, VA. Produced by The Doughboy Foundation in partnership with the Gary Sinise Foundation, the one-woman concert blended song, narration, and period detail to illuminate World War I through the lens of her great-aunt Rose, a Ziegfeld Follies performer. With musical direction by Tedd Firth and featuring Broadway’s George Abud, the performance brought to life the voices and songs of a generation shaped by the war. She appeared as Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the play “Dear Liar” at the Irish Rep; premiered the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine last fall in an unforgettable concert at the Metropolitan Museum’s Cloisters, singing a new David Shire/ Adam Gopnik musical penned for her, and starred as Zelda Fitzgerald opposite Alec Baldwin this summer in “The Fitzgeralds” at Guild Hall. In addition, she writes regularly about the comic twists and turns in the life of a performer for The New York Times, in a series dubbed by the newspaper “Scenes From An Acting Life.” From Paris, where she appeared last summer with her frequent concert mate Isabelle Georges at the Bal Blomet, to London, where she is a regular at Crazy Coqs cabaret – from the Elysée Palace to the stages of the Grand Rex, Montreal Jazz Festival and Carnegie Hall – she brings her inimitable mind, spirit, voice and soul to audiences around the world.
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