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Broadway at Birdland
Monday, July 11 at 7:00
p.m.
Jamie deRoy & friends acclaimed
Cabaret Show
To Benefit
The Entertainment
Community Fund
(formerly The Actors Fund)
Special Guests include:
Harolyn Blackwell, Ben
Jones, Daisy Jopling,
Robert Klein and Jason
Kravits
Show business tour de force
and eight-time Tony® Award-winning producer Jamie
deRoy brings
her acclaimed Jamie
deRoy & friends cabaret
show back to New York’s famed Birdland, Monday, July 11th,
at 7:00 p.m.
Performers who light up the
marquees of cabaret, theatre, music and comedy will join Ms.
deRoy. The one-night only show is part of the club’s
Broadway at Birdland Concert Series. Birdland is at 315 West
44th Street
in New York’s theatre district.
Proceeds from the event,
produced by Ms. deRoy, will benefit The
Entertainment Community Fund: Jamie
deRoy & friends Cabaret
Initiative which
assists those in the cabaret industry who have medical needs
and concerns. The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
honored her with a MAC Award for her many shows that have
benefited her signature initiative. The Jamie
deRoy & friends cabaret
series has been attracting New York audiences for over 30
years.
Ms. deRoy will host the show
and welcome special guests:
Harolyn Blackwell, one
of the brightest stars on stage in the US and abroad, is a
charismatic soprano that has been hailed by audiences and
critics alike as a “model of agility, spunk, charm and
silvery tone.” Recognized for her expressive and exuberant
performances, as well as for her radiant voice, she has a
wide and varied career on opera, concert and recital stages
of the world. She has performed with many of the most
distinguished orchestras across the world, on stage, screen
and on recordings including, the Lyric Opera of Chicago,
Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, San
Francisco Opera, Netherlands Opera, Seattle Opera, Opéra de
Nice, Miami Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Aix-en-Provence
Festival, Opera Orchestra of New York, New York’s Mostly
Mozart Festival, and the Ravinia Festival, among others. At
the Metropolitan Opera, she has appeared in several
productions, including La Fille du Régiment, Un Ballo in
Maschera, Le Nozze di Figaro, Manon, Die Fledermaus, and
Werther. Additional roles performed to date on other
stages have included Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor),
Lakmé (Lakmé), Gilda (Rigoletto),
Nannetta (Falstaff), Norina (Don Pasquale),
Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Zdenka (Arabella),
and Constance (Les Dialogues des Carmélites). Miss
Blackwell also starred in the Broadway Revival of Leonard
Bernstein’s Candide as Cunégonde.
Ben Jones is
a 2021 Broadway World Cabaret Award winner for work he
performed in clubs in New York City during the pandemic.
Regional credits include The Pajama Game (Sid), Guys
and Dolls (Sky), Show Boat (Ravenal), Thoroughly
Modern Millie (Jimmy), The Last Five Years (Jamie), Sweeney
Todd (Tobias), Candide (Governor, Vanderdendur), Follies (Buddy), Cats (Munkustrap/Quaxo)
and Chicago (Mary
Sunshine). Ben has appeared as soloist with such great
American symphony orchestras including the San Francisco
Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the
San Diego Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Indianapolis
Symphony, the Columbus Symphony and the Oakland East Bay
Symphony,
Daisy Jopling is
a world renowned classical/rock
violinist who has toured the world with her own band, the
“Daisy Jopling Band” and with the creative string trio “Triology.” She
has recorded 9 CDS, 2 with BMG RCA Victor. Her solo work has
included playing a concerto at the Royal Albert Hall in
London at the age of 14, playing twice before 30,000 people
at the opening of the Vienna Festival, touring with her band
to 53 stunning concert halls in China, creating
“Illuminance” on Bannerman Island, NY which aired on PBS in
2021, and performing her own “Awakening” Concert at Alice
Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in 2017. In 2021 Daisy premiered
a new show called “Transcendence”, directed by iconic
Olympic Ceremony creator Daniel Flannery, based on African
American author Sarah Bracey White’s memoir “Primary
Lessons”. As well as touring, Daisy is currently working on
a concert with her band at the Great Pyramids in Egypt on
November 4, 2022.
Robert Klein has
entertained audiences and has an acclaimed career in comedy,
on Broadway, on television and in film. In 1975, Klein was
the first comedian to appear in a live concert on HBO. He
has gone on to do nine one-man shows for the network and
garnered two Emmy nominations. Among dozens of starring and
guest-starring roles, he recently co-starred in two NBC hit
series, “Sisters” and “The Mysteries of Laura”. Most
recently he appeared as Grace’s father, Martin Adler on
“Will and Grace”. Klein has also appeared in many notable
films including, “Hooper,” “The Owl and the Pussycat,”
“Primary Colors,” “People I Know,” “Two Weeks Notice,” “How
to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” and “The Back-Up Plan” with
Jennifer Lopez. He has been nominated for Grammy Awards for
“Best Comedy Album of the Year” for his albums “Child of the
Fifties” and “Mind Over Matter.” He received a Tony Award
nomination for Best Actor, and won a Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle Award for his performance in the hit Neil
Simon musical, “They’re Playing Our Song.” In 1993, Klein
won an Obie and the Outer Critics Circle Award for
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in Wendy Wasserstein’s,
“The Sisters Rosensweig.” In the spring of 2017, his
documentary “Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg” aired on
STARZ.
Jason Kravits began
his career at 13 years old in Washington, DC playing Lolo in
the highly acclaimed PBS series, “Powerhouse”. Several years
later, after graduating from the University of Maryland, he
found a home in the Washington, DC, theater community, where
he became a well-known presence in theaters such as the
Round House Theater, the Shakespeare Theater, and the Woolly
Mammoth Theater Company (of which he is still a member).
Alongside fellow writer-performer Joel Jones, he developed
the material for "Making Faces," which would eventually go
on to win Best Sketch Show at 1999's U.S. Comedy Festival in
Aspen, Co. Shortly after, he landed a guest-starring role on
David Kelley's The Practice. In addition to TV credits, he
has appeared on Broadway in "Relatively Speaking," "The
Drowsy Chaperone," and "Sly Fox."
Multi-award winning Composer,
Book Writer and Lyricist Barry
Kleinbort directs
Ms. deRoy’s July 11th show
with musical direction by award-winning arranger,
orchestrator and conductor, Ron
Abel and Steve
Doyle on
Bass.
Ms. deRoy is an acclaimed
producer; cabaret, stage, film and TV performer; recording
artist and humanitarian. In addition to Tony Awards, she has
won eight MAC Awards, four Back Stage Bistro Awards and 11
Telly Awards for her extensive work on stage and screen. She
has appeared on stage with such luminaries as Joan Rivers
and has headlined at many New York nightclubs. Ms. deRoy has
produced nine CDs in the Jamie
deRoy & friends series,
all of which are available on Harbinger and PS Classics
labels. Her cabaret shows serve as the basis for her
award-winning cable television show which spotlights
well-known entertainers and newcomers.
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Jamie deRoy & friends
Birdland, 315 West 44th Street,
NYC
Monday, July 11th at
7:00 p.m.
www.BirdlandJazz.com
Tickets: $80 VIP/$45 General
Seating; $20 food/drink minimum per person.
For reservations:
212-581-3080.
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