Photo Coverage: Jamie deRoy & Friends Plays the Metropolitan Room
By: Stephen Sorokoff Nov. 29, 2012
Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy just hosted an evening of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, last night, November 28th (7PM) at Manhattan's cabaret hot-spot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~ btw. 5th & 6th Avenues). Check out photos from the event below!
Joining Jamie were Oscar and Golden Globe Award-nominated ("Rainbow Connection" --The Muppet Movie) composer & arranger Kenny Ascher; comic Myq Kaplan (The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Late Show with David Letterman); two-time MAC Award-winner, singer-songwriter Mary Liz McNamara; acclaimed Australian, West End and Tony Award-nominee sensation Tony Sheldon ( Priscilla Queen of the Desert); and John Tartaglia, Tony Award and Emmy Award-nominated actor and puppeteer (Avenue Q, ImaginOcean). Ron Abel served as musical director and Barry Kleinbort directed.
The colorful cabaret series, which has been thrilling New York City audiences for the past 21 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 nine CDs in the Jamie deRoy & friends series on Harbinger and PS Classics labels. Her theatre producing credits include the upcoming productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway and My Name is Asher Lev Off Broadway. Other credits include: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Peter and the Starcatcher, Mother F**ker with a Hat, Catch Me If You Can, The Addams Family, Lend Me A Tenor, Finian's Rainbow, Ragtime, Enron, A Behanding In Spokane, The Norman Conquests (TONY, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards winner for Best Play Revival), Desire Under the Elms, All About Me, Blithe Spirit, Impressionism, Speed-the-Plow, Arthur Miller's All My Sons,The Seagull, George Steven Jr.'s Thurgood, Clifford Odets' 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: Forbidden Broadway – Alive and Kicking; Harrison, TX (Primary Stages), 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 Black Tie, Buffalo Gal and Indian Blood (Outer Critics Circle Award), Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Her London credits include: Marguerite, Make Me a Song and The King's Speech. Other 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.
Ron Abel, music director
Jamie deRoy & Friends
Alison Nusbaum
Jamie deRoy, Rod, John Tartaglia
Jamie deRoy, Rod, John Tartaglia
Kenny Ascher
Tony Sheldon, Richard Hillman, Ron Abel
Friends of Jamie deRoy
Metropolitan Room
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