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David, Fulton, Noseworthy, et al. to Perform at Metropolitan Room

Jack Noseworthy
(© Michael Portantiere)
Jack Noseworthy
(© Michael Portantiere)

Broadway stars Franc D’Ambrosio, Keith David, Eileen Fulton, and Jack Noseworthy are among the stars who will appear next month at the Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street).

David will perform a tribute to the late singer Nat King Cole, titled The King and I: A Knight of True Romance, September 6-10. He received a Tony Award nomination for Jelly’s Last Jam; his other Broadway credits include The Lady from Dubuque, Hedda Gabler, Seven Guitars, and Hot Feet.

Noseworthy, who is currently appearing in The Public Theater’s production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Delacorte in Central Park, will make his cabaret debut with You Don’t Know Jack on September 19 and 20. He has appeared on Broadway in Sweet Smell of Success and A Chorus Line.

Also set to perform next month at the Metropolitan Room are D’Ambrosio, who played the leading role in The Phantom of the Opera more than 2,600 times and appeared on Broadway in Sweeney Todd, and Fulton, who played Honey in the original Broadway production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and has starred on the CBS daytime drama As The World Turns for more than 40 years.

The club’s slate also includes jazz great Annie Ross, Catherine Dupuis, Patrick DeGennaro, Karen Oberlin, Mary Foster Conklin, and Sue Matsuki; the popular show Gashole, with Karen Mack and Michael Holland; the revue Three Men and a Baby Grand, starring Brian Lane Green, Lee Lessack, and Johnny Rodgers; comedian Kim Cea; and jazz drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts.

For reservations and information, call 212-206-0440.