Jamie deRoy and Friends Come To The Met Room 7/14

Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy presents a special evening of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends on Wednesday, July 14th (7PM) at the New York hotspot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~between 5th & 6th Avenues).

Joining Jamie on July 14th will be Pamela Myers (Company, Into The Woods), Johnny Rodgers (Liza's at the Palace..!), Alexandra Silber (West End: Woman in White, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel) Martin Vidnovic (The King and I, Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls), comedian Reese Waters, and folk rock, blues singer/song writer Natalia Zuckerman. Award-winning director Barry Kleinbort will direct and Christopher Denny will serve as musical director.

The colorful cabaret series, which has been thrilling New York City audiences for the past 19 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 BackStage 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. Her theatre producing credits include for this season on Broadway: Lend Me A Tenor, Finian's Rainbow, Ragtime (all Tony Nominated) and The Addams Family, Enron and The Behanding of Spokane. Other Broadway credits include: The Norman Conquests (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards winner for Best Play Revival), Desire Under the Elms, Blithe Spirit, Impressionism, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, London's Marguerite, The Seagull, George Steven Jr.'s Thurgood, Clifford Odets's The Country Girl, David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow and November, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, and Say Goodnight Gracie; Off-Broadway: 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 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 two-beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 206-0440. Program is subject to change.

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski