Jamie deRoy & Friends Presents A Night at Feinstein's 4/17
By: Gabrielle Sierra
Join celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy as she marks the culmination of the 20th Anniversary Season of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, with a very special evening on Sunday, April 17th (8:30PM) at the legendary cabaret hot-spot Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue @ 61st Street).
Joining Jamie on April 17th: three-time MAC award-winner for Best Male Stand-up Comic and warm-up comedian and talent coordinator of Late Show with David Letterman Eddie Brill; Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and American country legend Larry Gatlin; Vegas mainstay, Billboard Hot 100 chart "Playground In My Mind" vocalist and singer extraordinaire, Clint Holmes; Tony Award- nominee Christiane Noll (Ragtime); and MAC award-winning jazz singer and pianist Daryl Sherman. Award-winning director Barry Kleinbort will direct and acclaimed Ron Abel will serve as musical director.The colorful cabaret series, which has been thrilling New York City audiences for the past 20 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: Catch Me If You Can, The Addams Family, Lend Me A Tenor, Finian's Rainbow, Ragtime, Enron, A Behanding In Spokane and All About Me and. 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, 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: Black Tie, 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 London credits include: Marguerite, Make Me a Song and the upcoming The King's Speech. Other 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. Tickets for Jamie deRoy & friends' at Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue @61st Street) on Sunday, April 17th (8:30PM) are $50 for premium seating and $30 for General Admission. (All tickets are subject to applicable taxes and handlingMention code Jamie 2011 and the handling charge is donated to The American Songbook Project) A $25 food & beverage minimum is required. For reservations, please call 212-339-4095.
