Jamie deRoy and Friends to Celebrate Holidays with Variety Show
By: Faetra Petillo
Celebrate the holiday season with famed cabaret performer Jamie DeRoy and her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie DeRoy & friends on Thursday, December 4th (7PM) at the New York hotspot, Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ between 5th & 6th Avenues).
Joining Jamie DeRoy on December 4th will be the acclaimed acappella group The Accidentals, Broadway veteran Loni Ackerman, Clio Award-winning singer/songwriter David Buskin, the incomparable performer Julie Budd, legendary singer/songwriter Jake Holmes, twin brother singing duo Will & Anthony Nunziata, dazzling magician and audience favorite Oz Pearlman and Tony nominated performer Lee Roy Reams. 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 the current Broadway productions of: Anton Chekov's The Seagull, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, and David Mamet's Speed the Plow. Recent credits include: London's Marguerite and Make Me a Song as well as the Broadway productions of 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. Her Off-Broadway credits feature: Buffalo Gal, 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 2-beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 206-0440. Program is subject to change.Photo Credit Mark Rupp
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