Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy concludes a monthly cabaret series of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, "Jamie de Roy & friends" on Wednesday, June 11th (7:30PM) at the New York hotspot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~between 5th & 6th Avenues) with a an evening of songs from Tony Award®-winning Musicals.
Joining
Jamie deRoy on June 11th will be Tony Award®-winners
Len Cariou,
Debbie Gravitte and three-time Tony Award®-winning composer
Charles Strouse; Tony nominated actress
Stephanie D'Abruzzo; Broadway veteran
Loni Ackerman, MAC Award-winning
KT Sullivan with jazz pianist
Jon Weber and cabaret performers
Tanya Holt,
Josh Scheer and MAC Award-winning
Amy Wolk. Award-winning director
Barry Kleinbort will direct 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. Her theatre producing credits include Broadway: the upcoming
Arthur Miller's All My Sons, London's Marguerite, 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; 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 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 $15 minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 206-0440. Program is subject to change.
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