Photo Coverage: Jamie deRoy & Friends Play The Metropolitan Room
By: Stephen Sorokoff Nov. 16, 2014
Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy presented another edition of her Multi MAC award-winning Variety Show, Jamie deRoy & friends last night, at The Metropolitan Room. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the evening below!
On the roster for the evening were Deborah Abramson and 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 directed and acclaimed composer/arranger Ron Abel was 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.
Photo credit: Stephen Sorokoff
