Jamie deRoy & friends Celebrate Anniversary Season, Kicks Off At The Triad 10/19

The "godmother to cabaret," Jamie deRoy, will celebrate the 20th Anniversary Season of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends on Tuesday, October 19th (8PM) at the cabaret hotspot The Triad (158 West 72nd Street ~ between Broadway & Columbus)----the same cabaret room (formerly Steve McGraw's) where she premiered her first show! The longest running cabaret variety show in cabaret history has become a fixture in the nightclub scene.

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 cabaret, theater, and comedy. A noted producer who curates her shows with a nose for new and established talent from all performing arts disciplines, Jamie deRoy has welcomed Broadway stars, comedians, and award-winning composers for the past two decades! The wide range of talents have included Tony Award nominees and winners including well-known Broadway performers, Lucie Arnaz, Brent Barrett, Len Cariou, Christopher Fitzgerald, Penny Fuller, Anita Gillette, Debbie Gravitte, Dolores Gray, Leslie Kritzer, Donna Murphy, James Naughton, Christiane Noll, Jerry Orbach, and Mary Testa; musical groups, The Accidentals, Buskin & Batteau, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, Modern Man and Uptown Express; comedians, Joy Behar, Eddie Brill, Jim David, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Gold, Darrell Hammond, Monteith and Rand, Caroline Rhea, Freddie Roman, Michael Somerville, Bruce Vilanch, and Henny Youngman; TV/stage/film stars, Danny Aiello, Steve Allen, Kaye Ballard, Polly Bergen, and Heather MacRae; noted performers, Lavern Baker, Peter Cincotti, Nancy Lamott, Jay Leonhart, Benjamin Levy, Susannah McCorkle, Marni Nixon, Margaret Whiting, and Julie Wilson; and composers/lyricists, Craig Carnelia, William Finn, John Forster, Richard Maltby, Jr., Stephen Schwartz, David Shire, and Charles Strouse. (list below)

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. Her theatre producing credits include for this past season on Broadway: Lend Me A Tenor, Finian's Rainbow, Ragtime, Enron, A Behanding In Spokane, All About Me and The Addams Family. 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, Speed-the-Plow, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, London's Marguerite, 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: 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' anniversary kicks off at The Triad (158 West 72nd Street ~ between Broadway & Columbus) has a $25 cover charge plus a two-drink minimum. To purchase tickets, please call SmartTix 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.

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