Photo of Jamie by Eric Stephen Jacobs
For Immediate Release:
Jamie deRoy & friends
Continues Monthly Series of Thursday Nights of Cabaret
Thursday, April 26th at Metropolitan Room
* Mary Bond Davis * William Finn * Gay Marshall *
* Karen Mason * Jeffrey Pirrami * Jay Rogers *
Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy will continue the monthly series of Thursday evenings of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends on Thursday, April 26th (7:30PM) at the New York hotspot The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street Between 5th & 6th Avenues). The series will continue Thursdays, May 31st, and June 28th at 7:30PM.
The April 26th evening will feature the following artists: Hairspray’s talented “Motormouth Maybelle,” Mary Bond Davis; acclaimed playwright and composer William Finn; singer/actress Gay Marshall, last seen in the revival of Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris; award-winning cabaret and Broadway performer Karen Mason; hilarious comedian Jeffrey Pirrami and Drama Desk Award nominee, cabaret favorite Jay Rogers. Barry Kleinbort is the director of Jamie deRoy & friends 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 Broadway: Coram Boy, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Say Goodnight Gracie; Off-Broadway: Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell, Athol Fugard’s Exits and Entrances, Christopher Durang’s Adrift in Macao, A. R. Gurney’s Indian Blood, Terrence McNally’s Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, 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 at Gotham, 34 West 22 Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) has a $20 cover charge plus a two beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 206-0440. Program is subject to change.
