JAMIE deROY & FRIENDS SHOW CELEBRATES "OSCAR" SONGS
Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy celebrates "Oscar" with an
evening featuring Academy Award-winning songs and winners as the theme
of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends
on Wednesday, February 20th at 7:30 pm at THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34
West 22nd Street, NYC - 212-206-0440 -
http://www.metropolitanroom.com/
). The evening will feature the acclaimed acappella group The Accidentals,
Broadway veteran Loni Ackerman, classically trained virtuoso Frank
Basile, Barbra Streisand impressionist Steven Brinberg, MAC and Bistro
Award winner Scott Coulter, musical director John McDaniel, Academy
Award winner Celeste Holm, violinist Joan Kwuon, "the Crown Prince
of New York cabaret" Steve Ross and Academy Award winning composer
and songwriter David Shire. Barry Kleinbort is the director of Jamie
deRoy & friends and Ian Herman 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
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, 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.
There is a $25 cover plus a 2-beverage minimum.
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