Tony Monopoly
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Tony Monopoly (1944 - March 21, 1995) was a popular Australian cabaret singer and actor who enjoyed success in Great Britain.
Born Antonio Rosario Monopoli in Adelaide, Australia, he won hundreds of times on Opportunity Knocks, a television talent show, in the 1970s.
In a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest held on March 9, 1977 at the New London Theatre, Monoply earned 66 points and place ninth with the tune "Leave a Little Love."
In the early 1990s, Monopoly starred - in drag - in Moby Dick, the inaugural production at the newly-refurbished Old Fire Station Theatre in Oxford. The show's success prompted Cameron Mackintosh to mount a 1992 West End production that opened to scathing reviews and promptly closed.
Monopoly died in Blackley, Manchester, Lancashire, England.
