Jamie DeRoy Celebrates Academy Award Winning Songs

Join celebrated cabaret performer Jamie DeRoy when she celebrates Oscar with an evening featuring Academy Award-winning songs and winners as the theme of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie DeRoy & friends on Monday, February 16th (7:00PM) at the New York hotspot The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street - between 5th & 6th Avenues).

The evening will feature the following artists: film critic and columnist Rex Reed; 2009 star of the 2006 critically acclaimed off-Broadway revival, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, singer and actress Gay Marshall; from the Tony Award-winning casts of the Broadway revivals of "Company" and "Cabaret", actor, singer, and musician Leenya Rideout; rising actor and gifted comedian Steven Scott, Nightlife Award winner Daryl Glenn; and special guest, Academy Award, Grammy Award, Drama Desk and Golden Globe Award winning composer and lyricist, Stephen Schwartz. Barry Kleinbort is the director of Jamie DeRoy & friends and Lanny Meyers will serve as musical director.

The colorful cabaret series, which has been thrilling New York City audiences for the past 16 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 eight CDs in the Jamie DeRoy & friends series on the Harbinger and PS Classics labels. This season her theatre producing credits include the Broadway productions of: Anton Chekov's The Seagull, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, David Mamet's Speed the Plow and coming this spring, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, Michael Jacobs' Impressionism, and Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests. Recent credits include: London's Marguerite and Make Me a Song as well as the Broadway productions of George Steven Jr.'s Thurgood, Clifford Odets's The Country Girl, David Mamet's November, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, and Say Goodnight Gracie. Her Off-Broadway credits feature: Buffalo Gal, 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 Indian Blood (Outer Critics Circle Award), Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Her 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 /between 5th and 6th Avenues) has a $25 cover charge plus a 2-beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 206-0440. Program is subject to change.