deRoy & Friends Come with Strings Attached in Sept. 12 Benefit

By: Aug. 24, 2005
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Cabaret performer Jamie DeRoy will bring her multi-MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie DeRoy & friends, to Birdland (315 West 44 Street) on Monday, September 12th at 7 PM to benefit The New York City Police Foundation. The evening will be presented by Jim Caruso in association with Theatermania.com, and is an official participant in the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF).

This special event Strings Attached… will feature artists along with stringed instruments – violins and guitars. The lineup includes Tony nominated Ann Crumb (Aspects of Love), who not only sings but plays violin, singer-songwriter Randi Driscoll, from the Broadway revival of Cabaret, Leenya Rideout, who will play the violin, musical duo Buskin and Batteau, (guitars and violin), violinist Todd Sullivan, and comic/guitarist Demetri Martin. Barry Kleinbort is 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 15 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," according to a press statement.

deRoy has won eight MAC Awards, four Back Stage Bistro Awards, nine Telly Awards and CaB Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work on both stage and screen. deRoy has appeared onstage with Joan Rivers, and has headlined most of New York's clubs, as well as producing six CDs in the Jamie deRoy & friends series on Harbinger Records. Producing credits include Broadway's Say Goodnight, Gracie, the off-Broadway hit The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), the Emmy-nominated "The Biggest Little Operas in Town" for Channel 13, Rick McKay's documentary, Broadway: The Golden Age, and currently co-producer of Terrance McNally's "Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams," starring Nathan Lane and Marian Seldes.  TV credits include appearances on "Alice," "Spiderman" and "Knight Rider," on film GoodFellas, Raging Bull, See No Evil Hear No Evil, and Married to It. Onstage, she appeared with Rene Auberjonois in The Threepenny Opera, as well as in The Drunkard with musical direction by Barry Manilow. 

There is a $25 cover charge plus a $10 food and/or beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 581-3080; the program is subject to change.  

  





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