Cabaret performer Jamie deRoy will host two nights of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, on Tuesday, October 4th & Wednesday, October 5th (7PM) at the intimate cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).
Over two nights, the following artist will join Jamie - Tuesday, October 4th will feature lyricist & composer duo
Amanda Yesnowitz &
Deborah Abramson (featuring performances by Megan McGinnis and Andrew Samonsky); singer-songwriter
David Buskin (Buskin & Batteau); lyricist & composer team
Marcy Heisler &
Zina Goldrich (Dear Edwina); and well known songwriter and jingle writer
Jake Holmes. An additional treat will be Tony Nominee
Christiane Noll (Ragtime) who will perform "Wish on the Moon," a new song written by
Jamie deRoy,
Barry Kleinbort and
Shelly Markham. Another show-stopping evening follows on Wednesday, October 5th with Award-winning composer-lyricist
Lance Horne; multiple award winning singer-songwriter
Rick Jensen; multiple award winning director-composer-lyricist
Barry Kleinbort; singer-songwriter
Christine Lavin; musical director-arranger-songwriter
Shelly Markham (Naked Boys Singing); and Tony Nominated composer
Jeff Blumenkrantz (Urban Cowboy). The evening's bonus highlight will be Tony Nominee
Rebecca Luker, who will perform "Last Day on Earth" with music and lyrics by Mr. Horne.
Barry Kleinbort will direct and
Shelly Markham will serve as musical director.
The colorful cabaret series, which has been thrilling New York City audiences for the past 21 years and serves as the basis for deRoy's award-winning cable television show, spotlights a wide variety of well-known entertainers and newcomers lighting up the cabaret, theater, and comedy worlds.
Jamie deRoy has won eight MAC Awards, four Back Stage Bistro Awards, ten Telly Awards and CaB Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work on both stage and screen. Jamie has appeared onstage with
Joan Rivers and has headlined at many of New York's major clubs. She has produced nine CDs in the
Jamie deRoy & friends series on Harbinger and PS Classics labels. Her theatre producing credits include: Mother F**ker with a Hat, Catch Me If You Can, The Addams Family, Lend Me A Tenor, Finian's Rainbow, Ragtime, Enron, A Behanding In Spokane and The Norman Conquests (TONY, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards winner for Best Play Revival). Other Broadway credits include: Desire Under the Elms, All About Me, Blithe Spirit, Impressionism, Speed-the-Plow,
Arthur Miller's All My Sons, The Seagull, George Steven Jr.'s Thurgood,
Clifford Odets' The Country Girl,
David Mamet's November,
Jay Johnson: The Two and Only,
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, and Say Goodnight Gracie; Off-Broadway: Black Tie, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Make Me A Song: The Music of
William Finn, Dividing The Estate (Outer Critics Circle Award), Opus,
Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell,
Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances,
Christopher Durang's Adrift in Macao,
A.R. Gurney's Buffalo Gal and Indian Blood (Outer Critics Circle Award),
Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, and The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare (Abridged). Her London credits include: Marguerite, Make Me a Song and the upcoming The King's Speech. Other TV and film producing credits include the Emmy-nominated "The Biggest Little Operas in Town" for Channel 13 and
Rick McKay's documentary Broadway: The Golden Age. Her acting credits include appearances on the television shows "Alice," "Spiderman" and "Knight Rider," and in the films GoodFellas, Raging Bull, See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Married to It. Onstage, Jamie appeared with
Rene Auberjonois in The Threepenny Opera, as well as in The Drunkard with musical direction by
Barry Manilow.
Jamie deRoy & friends' at Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues) on Tuesday, October 4th and Wednesday, October 5th (7PM) has a $25 cover charge plus a 2 beverage minimum. For reservations, please call 212-206-0440 or visit
metropolitanroom.com.
