
JAMIE DEROY & FRIENDS SPRING MONTHLY SERIES SHOW MAY 31st
Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy brings continues her springmonthly
series of Thursday evenings of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety
show, Jamie deRoy & friends on Thursday, May 31st at 7:30 pm at the
New York hotspot THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street, NYC -
212-206-0440 -
http://www.metropolitanroom.com/
).One additional show in the series is schedued for Thursday, June
28th. Barry Kleinbort is the director of Jamie deRoy & friends and
Paul Greenwood will serve as musical director. The May 31st evening
will feature Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, Baby Jane Dexter, Michael
Garin, Daniel Rodriguez and Michael Somerville.
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, nine 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: Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Say Goodnight Gracie; Off-Broadway: Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell, Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances, Christopher Durang's Adrift in Macao, Indian Blood, Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, 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 $20 cover charge plus a two beverage minimum.