Multi-award-winning director, composer, lyricist and librettist, Barry Kleinbort, joins “Jamie deRoy & friends” as co-host. He will team with Jamie deRoy, the 10-time Tony Award Broadway Producer and founder of this popular long-running talk show. The duo’s next show, which airs on biweekly on Mondays at 8:00 PM, is December 12, on Spectrum Channel 1993 and Verizon FIOS Channel 37, as well as as well as multiple times on East Hampton’s LTV.
“Jamie deRoy & friends” is a half hour show that features the pair discussing many of Broadway’s current performances. These knowledgeable “insiders” will provide their audience with insights about leading theatrical productions, as well as offering music and song to the mix.
Kleinbort earned the prestigious Edward Kleban Foundation Award for lyric writing, two Gilman-Gonzalez Musical Theatre Awards, the Second Stage Musicals Writers Award, the ASCAP/Jamie deRoy & friends Award, two BackStage Bistro Awards and 12 Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) Awards for his directorial and songwriting efforts. Among many other projects, he co-conceived and directed Tony Award winner Len Cariou’s one-man tour de force, Broadway and The Bard, for off-Broadway and its two national tours in 2018 and 2019.
The upcoming “Jamie deRoy & friends” schedule is:
• Monday, Dec. 12: A new Holiday show with favorite Holiday songs and highlighting the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
• Monday, December 26: Part 2 of the Oct. 3rd benefit from Birdland for the Entertainment Community Fund.
• Monday, January 9: Featuring the ceremony of the renaming of the Lena Horne Theater; an interview with Michael Schaefer talking about Education Through Music and a video showing the children in the program and various other Broadway shows that have opened recently.
deRoy founded this popular variety show more than 30 years ago, with Kleinbort directing. Longtime producer, editor and videographer is Russell Bouthiller.
