TONY® Award–Nominated Broadway Actress, Singer & Writer Melissa Errico Shares Three-Song Bundle: “But Beautiful” / “Dancing on the Ceiling” / “Remind Me”

From Forthcoming American Songbook Album I Can Dream, Can't I? Out January 30th, 2026

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"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

November 7, 2025 - Tony® Award -nominated Broadway actress, singer and author Melissa Errico (My Fair Lady, Les Misérables, High Society) has shared a new three-track bundle, comprising her renditions of "But Beautiful," "Dancing on the Ceiling,"and "Remind Me."Listen HERE. It's accompanied by an official performance video of "But Beautiful" - available on her YouTube channel now. Watch HERE . Today's release continues the song-by-song rollout of her forthcoming American Songbook album, I Can Dream, Can't I?, out January 30, 2026.

The tracks further open the world of I Can Dream, Can't I?Summoning the spirit of the thirties and forties, "But Beautiful" first appeared in The Road To Rio, "Dancing On The Ceiling" originated from Evergreen, and "Remind Me" is from One Night In The Tropics. They build out the mid-section of the album, and hint at the scope of her vision for the record.

On "But Beautiful" (featuring the rarely sung opening verse), she can't quite name what love is as she's still bruised, but willing to forgive. Elegant piano sets the tone for the track, and Melissa breathes life into the words of lyricist Johnny Burke. She brings fresh energy to lines like "Love is funny, or it's sad, or it's quiet, or it's mad," going on to muse, "It's a good thing or it's bad, but beautiful." The performance video captures her in top form as she delivers the song with reverence.

On the other hand, "Dancing on the Ceiling" keeps her awake till dawn, drifting into moonlit thoughts and saying goodbye to logic. Between strains of piano, she practically floats on the butterflies of new love as she sings, "I love my ceiling more since it is a dancing floor just for my love." On "Remind Me" (with lyrics by the great Dorothy Fields), she finds herself reluctant to love again. Doomed to repeat heartbreak, she tries to forget a significant other as she sighs, "Remind me not to mention that I love you."

Imagined, as Melissa puts it, "like pages torn from a 1940s café-little missives of a literary heart trying to organize her disorganized emotions," this trio feels psychological and flirtatious-as if a Noël Coward heroine were murmuring to herself after a single, telling cocktail.

It's just the latest prelude of her upcoming album. Thus far, she has released a handful of choice selections. These include the first single, a dazzling rendition of the American Songbook gem "When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)" and two-song bundle "I Can Dream, Can't I?" / "I Didn't Know About You," with Riff Magazine declaring on the latter,"Errico's rich voice is perfect for this sweet, jazzy song." She also revealed the single " There'll Be Another Spring " at the end of October.

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 and recently joined Alec Baldwin for a performance in East Hampton, NY during "The Fitzgeralds: A Reading with Music." Declared a "modern-day Streisand" ( Broadway World ), Melissa will debut her new live project, The Streisand Effect, performing alongside Barbra Streisand's band in both Long Beach, CA and New York, NY starting next week. See all tour dates (including a holiday tour) 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. Listen Here

(1979)

Music & Lyrics by David Frishberg

12. 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

2025

11/12 - Long Beach, CA - Carpenter Center of Performing Arts

11/13 - Long Beach, CA - Carpenter Center of Performing Arts

11/19 - New York, NY - 54 Below

11/20 - New York, NY - 54 Below

11/12 - New York, NY - 54 Below

11/22 - New York, NY - 54 Below

12/10 - Erie, PA - Walker Recital Hall

12/12 - New Hope, PA - Bucks County Playhouse

12/13 - Brookville, NY - Tilles Center - Krasnoff Theater

12/15 - Austin, TX - Parker Jazz Club

12/16 - Hollywood, CA - Catalina Bar & Grill

12/18 - New York, NY - The Century Association

2026

2/14-2/16 - New York, NY - Birdland Jazz Club

3/22 - Mamaroneck, NY - Emelin Theatre

3/28 - Las Vegas - The Smith Center

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 Sondheim and 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 byThe 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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