Jamie deRoy & Friends Celebrate The Oscars 2/20 at the Metropolitan Room

Join celebrated cabaret performer Jamie DeRoy when she 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 20 at 7:30PM at the New York hotspot The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street – between 5th & 6th Avenues).

The evening will feature the following artists: the acclaimed acappella group The Accidentals, Broadway veteran Loni Ackerman, New York's favorite classically trained virtuoso Frank Basile, premier Barbra Streisand impressionist Steven Brinberg, MAC and Bistro Award winner Scott Coulter, musical director extraordinaire John McDaniel, Academy Award winner Celeste Holm, critically hailed 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.

Jamie DeRoy & friends at Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street /between 5th and 6th Avenues) has a $25 cover charge plus a two beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 206-0440. Program is subject to change.

Jamie deRoy (photo by Eric Stephen Jacobs)