Melissa Errico, the Tony Award-nominated actress and celebrated interpreter of the American Songbook, has released a new visual companion to the title track of her forthcoming album I Can Dream, Can’t I?, coming out in January. Accompanied by pianist Tedd Firth, Errico lends fresh intimacy to Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal’s 1937 ballad, a song that has quietly endured as one of the hidden treasures of its era.
Shot inside the historic Art Deco Film Center in Manhattan, filmmaker Matthew Edginton frames Errico’s performance in a surrealist dreamscape. Vintage imagery of airships, ocean liners, and glittering city scenes floats alongside her voice, evoking both nostalgia and fantasy. The effect is timeless, echoing the elegance of the song’s origins while speaking to the present moment.
Errico’s upcoming album will explore a wide range of the American Songbook, weaving together works by Loesser, Coleman, Ellington, Rodgers and Hart, and Joni Mitchell. True to her vision, the project treats each song as a quiet question rather than a declaration, creating space for vulnerability, intellect, and glamour to coexist.
Image by Paul Citone
