Join celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy when she presents another edition of her Multi MAC award-winning Variety Show, Jamie deRoy & friends, tonight, November 15th (7:30PM) at New York's wonderfully-appointed cabaret hot-spot The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues).
On the roster for the evening will be
Deborah Abramsonand
Amanda Yesnowitz (2014 Winner of the
ASCAP Foundation Jamie deRoy & friends Songwriting Award); musician and composer Daniel Cainer (Jewish Chronicles); popular comic
Jim Mendrinos (Launch TV/Living in Exile); The Shapiro Sisters:
Milly Shapiro (Tony Honoree: Matilda, The Musical) and
Abigail Shapiro (Liberty, How The Grinch Stole Christmas); and Jazz singer
Iris Williams, O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire). Award-winning director
Barry Kleinbort will direct and acclaimed composer/arranger
Ron Abel will serve as musical director along with
Tom Hubbard on bass.
The colorful cabaret series, which has been thrilling New York City audiences for the past 24 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.
In addition to her three Tony Awards for her theatre producing talents (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Norman Conquests),
Jamie deRoy has won eight MAC Awards, four Back Stage Bistro Awards, eleven Telly Awards and CaB Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work on both stage and screen. Jamie has appeared onstage with the late great
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 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 filmsGoodFellas, Raging Bull, See No Evil, Hear No Evil andMarried to It. Onstage, Jamie appeared with
Rene Auberjonois in The Threepenny Opera, as well as in TheDrunkard with musical direction by
Barry Manilow.
Jamie deRoy & friends at Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues) on Saturday, November 15 (7:30PM) has a $30 cover charge plus a 2-beverage minimum. For reservations, please call
212.206.0440 or visit
http://metropolitanroom.com. Program subject to change.
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