TONY® Award–Nominated Broadway Actress, Singer & Writer Melissa Errico’s New American Songbook Album I Can Dream, Can’t I? Out Now
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New Single & Music Video “After You, Who?”
Set For Various Performances This Winter
“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
Friday, January 30 — Tony® Award–nominated Broadway actress, singer and author Melissa Errico (My Fair Lady, Les Misérables, High Society) has released her new American Songbook album, I Can Dream, Can’t I?, out now on all digital streaming platforms. In tandem with the record’s arrival, she has shared a cinematic music video for her rendition of “After You, Who?” from the 1932 musical Gay Divorce. Listen to the album, and watch “After You, Who?” music video HERE.
She has carefully curated a dynamic and deep body of work representative of five decades of American music and history. For as much as I Can Dream, Can’t I is the work of a dyed-in-the-wool aficionado with an encyclopedic knowledge of theater, film, and music, it also provides a modern perspective on songs from the thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies reimagined through the eyes, artistry, and spirit of a 21st century woman. With 14 handpicked songs of uncanny timelessness she first invited listeners into this world by teasing the album with a song-by-song rollout, bundling key tracks. Now, she proudly presents the entire piece.
The full tracklisting is enclosed below.
Penned by Cole Porter, “After You, Who?” was first popularized by Fred Astaire as the opening number of Gay Divorce. It would later be cut by Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, and Jody Watley, among others. Respectful of this history, Errico brings a delicate - vulnerability to the track, holding notes and cradling soft vibrato just above twinkling piano. The chanteuse’s reverence underscores her vital delivery of the refrain, “After you, who could I love?” This vibe carries over to the video where her energy remains palpable in the performance.
This winter, Errico’s set for a myriad of shows and engagements. First up, she sings the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, February 4 when the New York Knicks host the Nuggets. On February 13-15, she returns to Birdland Jazz Club in New York City for her fourth sold-out Valentine’s run with “Lost in His Arms,” bringing various songs from I Can Dream, Can’t I? to life. In March, she’ll return to Sondheim in the City and The Streisand Effect—with Barbra Streisand’s band. Of the latter, BroadwayWorld just raved, “Errico is singing at the top of her game. It can be a mistake for musical artists to sing songs made famous by Barbra Streisand, but everyone knows that Melissa Errico has the talent to sing anything she wants with credibility, and, here, she rises to the occasion.” To purchase tickets, visit: https://melissaerrico.com/calendar/.
In the leadup to the album’s release, she dropped “Both Sides Now,” the Listen Here EP, and “Like A Lover” as part of the rollout at the end of last year. Earlier album previews also included the three-track bundle — “But Beautiful,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” and “Remind Me,” 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.
2025 was 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, 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 Callaway and 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. Lost In His Arms
(1946)
Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin
11. All In Fun
(Very Warm for May, 1939)
Music by Jerome Kern, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
12. Listen Here
(1979)
Music & Lyrics by David Frishberg
13. Both Sides Now
(Clouds, 1966)
Music & Lyrics by Joni Mitchell
Bonus Track:
14. After You, Who?
(Gay Divorce, 1932)
Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Upcoming Shows
2/13- New York, NY - Birdland Jazz Club (2 shows)
2/14 - New York, NY - Birdland Jazz Club (2 shows)
2/15 - New York, NY - Birdland Jazz Club (2 shows)
3/22 - Mamaroneck, NY - Emelin Theatre
3/28 - Las Vegas - The Smith Center
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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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