Jamie de Roy & friends Plays at Primary Stages 5/1, Ackerman, Gillette & More To Guest

Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy presents a special evening of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie de Roy & friends on Saturday, May 1st (8PM) at Primary Stages (59 East 59th Street ~between Park & Madison Avenues) with an evening of songs from Tony Award®-Winning Musicals.

Joining Jamie on May 1st will be: special guest, 2-Time Tony Award Winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree), Broadway veteran Loni Ackerman (George M!, Evita, Cats), Tony Award Nominee Anita Gillette (Don't Drink The Water, Cabaret, Chapter Two), Tony Award Nominee Christopher Fitzgerald (Wicked, Young Frankenstein, Finian's Rainbow), London's beloved triple-threat, Bonnie Langford (Chicago-NYC and London companies) Christiane Noll (Jekyll & Hyde, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Ragtime), Kevin Spirtas (The Boy from Oz) and surprise guests! Award-winning director Barry Kleinbort will direct and Paul Greenwood 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 for this season on Broadway: Lend Me A Tenor, Finian's Rainbow, Ragtime 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'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 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.

Tickets for Jamie deRoy & friends at Primary Stages (59 East 59th Street/between Park & Madison Avenues) are $30 and can be purchased by calling (212) 279-4200 or by visiting www.ticketcentral.com. Program is subject to change.

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi

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