Back by popular demand, Broadway star, vocalist and writer Melissa Errico returns to Southampton with a brand new show “I CAN DREAM, CAN’T I? — Songs of Love, Longing & Summertime.” When Melissa sings a classic, it isn’t a torch song. It’s more of a … searchlight, or even, more simply, a flashlight song: like one you take along a summer path to find the way. Errico’s voice throughout is like that summer flashlight. We may even see fireflies, dancing in the light, winking their desires, out to their lovers as pure light. Renowned jazz pianist Tedd Firth — a close friend & collaborator of Melissa for decades —- accompanies her with poetic solos that twinkle in the high grasses near the ocean. You can hear the breeze between them. 

This concert debuts their upcoming duo album, “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” (October 2025) which is a collection of standards that are not standard. Though many of the songs are familiar, even classics, her songs are those of conversation and reflection, songs that ask themselves questions privately. They invite Melissa to whisper & gently swing her secrets and, for us, her summer dreams. With songs by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Joni Mitchell, David Shire, Dave Frishberg, and more, Melissa brings an exceptional, intuitively-discovered body of work taken from the high fresh haystack of the greatest and most appealing, the most ‘accessible,’ of the great theater writers – from Irving Berlin’s introspective, secretive, sensual “Lost in His Arms” to “Why Did I Lose You?” Some are sweet erotic metaphors – “Dancing On the Ceiling”; “Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year”, explored for their own sweet sakes.