MAC & Bistro Award-Winner BILLIE ROE Continues Run of Provocative Show MONOPOLY at Don't Tell Mama, 2/12 & 2/19

When singer Billie Roe returned to performing in 2012 after a nearly 30-year hiatus, she set the New York cabaret scene on fire, winning the annual MetroStar Talent Challenge at the Metropolitan Room and capturing a 2012 Bistro Award for "Outstanding Theme Show" for her compelling Dangerous Women: Life In Film Noir. Roe quickly followed that up with her critically acclaimed Tom Waits Tribute Show 1978 NYC Underground, which earned her another Bistro Award and also a 2014 MAC Award for "Best Female Vocalist."

Billie was back on the cabaret stage in 2016, again at the Metropolitan Room, with a uniquely provocative musical show MONOPOLY: SINGING THE LIVES FROM BALTIC AVENUE TO BOARDWALK, that combines biting political commentary, humanity, and humor with songs by composers as diverse as Kurt Weill, Alan Jay Lerner, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Pink Floyd, and Bono from U2. Roe's pithy and poignant script brings the people who reside within one of the world's most popular board games to life. MONOPOLY has earned Roe a BroadwayWorld.com Cabaret Award Nomination for "Best Show, Female."

Directed by multiple Award-winning cabaret star Mark Nadler, with music direction by Steven Ray Watkins (the two combined on the show's musical arrangements), Billie Roe's MONOPOLY moves to Don't Tell Mama (343 West 46th St, New York, NY) on February 12 and 19, 2017, both shows at 5:30 PM. For reservations, call: 212-757-0788

Cabaret Scenes Magazine reviewer Rob Lester raved about MONOPOLY " . . . The most compelling and bravest cabaret room experience I have had this year . . . Imaginative, thought-provoking, risky, moving, and thoroughly theatrical, the commanding performer Billie Roe and her daring director, Mark Nadler [and Musical Director Steven Ray Watkins] have put together a stunning evening of songs and monologues . . . Riveting Roe transforms herself into fully realized characters . . . My advice about the Monopoly-centric Billie Roe show: GO!"

"I was artistically, intellectually and musically floored, felled, stunned, knocked out by Billie Roe's uniquely provocative show . . . Her presence and delivery quickly make you aware that she's a very special performer-a blunt, direct, actress/singer with great vocal control, a wide range, a friendly stage presence, and strong pipes."
- Myra Chanin, TheaterPizzazz.com

Bio: Billie Roe played many New York clubs in the 1970s and early 80s, including The Grand Finale, Reno Sweeney's, Trax, The Copa, and her favorite Les Mouches (where she debuted her acclaimed act The Heat Is On, opening for Gloria Gaynor). Billie has sung with the San Diego Symphony, and as a professional actress has performed in regional theatres throughout the country. She holds a BFA in Acting from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a MFA from New York's Actors Studio Drama School, as well as being a founding member of the Playwrights Directors Workshop at The Actors Studio in New York.

For more information, contact Stephen Hanks, Cabaret Life Productions, cabaretlifeproductions@gmail.com.

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