MAC & Bistro Award-Winner BILLIE ROE Continues Run of Provocative New Show MONOPOLY at Metropolitan Room, 10/15 & 11/20 at 7 pm

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."

Now Billie is back again, this time 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. In her new cabaret effort, Roe has written a pithy and poignant script that brings the people who reside within one of the world's most popular board games to life.

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 opened a four-show major engagement at the Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues) on September 9.

Cabaret Scenes Magazine reviewer Rob Lester raved about Roe's opening night show: ". . . 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!"

Billie Roe's MONOPOLY: SINGING THE LIVES FROM BALTIC AVENUE TO BOARDWALK continues its three-show run on October 15 and November 20, both shows at 7 pm. There is a $20 cover charge ($15 for MAC members) and a two-drink minimum. For reservations, call 212/206-0440 or order online at www.metropolitanroom.com.

Roe will be donating proceeds from the November 20 show to benefit The Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services Corporation (GCNSSC), which is committed to providing immediate relief to Midtown Manhattan's homeless population.

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