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Welcome to the Home of
The Billionaire Follies


Artistic Director:
Ivy League-Legacy (aka Melody Bates)
Resident Director: Bella de Ball (aka Mahayana Landowne)
Choreographer Seamus: Lee Rich (aka DJ McDonald)

contact: Follies@BillionairesForBush.com

Upcoming Events:

Get your tickets now for

DICK CHENEY'S HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR: THE LAST HUZZAH!

Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular is back for its fourth smash year.
Sunday, December 16th, 7pm & 9pm, at Ace of Clubs.
Highlights this year include storytime with Laura Bush, a gala Winter Carnival before the show, and prizes for the best Billionaire ensemble, so Dress to Oppress!

Get your tickets at http://spincyclenyc.com/theaterdance/071216thelasthuzzah.php


JOIN THE FOLLIES at their GALA BENEFIT COCKTAIL PARTY

Monday, December 10th, 2007
7-9:30pm
At the home of Michelle and Kevin O'Driscoll
238 East 74th Street buzzer #1
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Featuring Melissa Collom performing excerpts from her recent American Songwriters recital at the Smithsonian Institution, special guests, and a holiday serenade from the Billionaire Follies.
Suggested Donation: $40*
RSVP to Rob Dapore at Rob (at) BillionairesForBush.com.

*A limited number of $20 Starving Intern tickets are available! Ask about them when you RSVP

The Billionaire Follies and Heart of Gold Productions invite you to a Gala Cocktail Reception to benefit the 2007 production of DICK CHENEY'S HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR: THE LAST HUZZAH!




MEET THE FOLLIES
The Billionaire Follies are the performing wing of Billionaires For Bush,
celebrating George W. Bush and the emerging plutocracy in song and sketch across the country. The Follies have performed everywhere from the National Press Club (where Al Franken opened for them) to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the Million Worker March, from Webster Hall to CBGB's, from SpiritNYC to The Slipper Room. They have sung live on FuseTV and Fox News, as well as on Air America's Majority Report, WBAI, and WNYE. They are available for your event! Email Follies@BillionairesForBush.com for more information.


Recent Events:

"IT DOESN'T GET MORE RELEVANT THAN DICK CHENEY'S HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR 2006"--The New York Post, 12/16/06



DICK CHENEY'S HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR 2006 was a bigger hit than ever. The show played to sold-out houses in New York City, and our media came through with such great reviews you would almost think we owned them. Our good friend Rupert Murdoch gave us the rave recommendation quoted above, but he wasn't the only one.

Check out what other embedded media had to say about the show:

Village Voice Choice--"Celebrate the holidays in the Veep's Bunker!"

Metro NY: Best Holiday Show to Attend with Your Vacationing College Student Siblings

NY Press: "Most holiday festivities offer patrons mistletoe, re-gifted presents and soggy fruitcake, but only one promises to bring the Dick--Cheney, that is. Billionaires For Bush presents a heartwarming parody of our country's darling vice president when its performance group, The Billionaire Follies, takes on Bush's buddy in Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular 2006...their delightfully biting political satire will surely spread holiday cheer."

Off Off Online: "Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular 2006...provides an early Christmas present to those who like their holiday carols pretty and their sketch comedy silly and dirty...An hour goes by fast when in the company of entertaining folks like these....If you find the Rankin/Bass animated specials a little too religious, and the Grinch a little too mushy, then Dick Cheney's got a spectacular he'd like to sell you."

TalkEntertainment: "Jamie Jackson, with his fixed evil grin and wisps of white bushy hair atop his ears, is our right on host of the evening Dick Cheney. David Bennett is a fantastic Georgie Bush. If anyone could ever call Georgie Bush fantastic. Dave Case is a wicked guitar strumming Karl Rove."

Travel Lady Magazine: "In the tradition of good satire, this tongue-in-cheek play-length musical skit by The Billionaire Follies, the performing wing of Billionaires for Bush, is witty political commentary and enormously entertaining."

With accolades like these, we're already cooking the books for next year's spectacular. To find out how to be involved, or how to bring next year's show to your gated community, please email Follies(at)BillionairesForBush.com.

DICK CHENEY'S

HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR 2006




Back for it's third smash year, DICK CHENEY'S HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR 2006 pulls out all the stops. Can George, Dick, and Karl ever recover from the unceremonious drubbing they got in the midterm elections? Join the sparkling and irrepressible Billionaire Follies as they raise their champagne flutes in a year-end toast to plutocracy, and you'll find out. This year's production includes billionaire holiday classics like "We Three Kings of Petroleum Are," "Toys for the World (Are Made by Kids)," and the spectacular "Halliburton Chorus." The fabulous stage show also features the icy-hot 24-Carat Rockettes and a visit from - who else? - the Ghost of Ken Lay.


DICK CHENEY'S HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR 2006 is presented by Billionaires For Bush and Heart of Gold Productions. The creative team once again includes Billionaire Follies Artistic Director Melody Bates ("Ivy League-Legacy"), resident director Mahayana Landowne ("Bella de Ball"), and choreographer DJ McDonald ("Seamus Lee Rich"). The writing team is headed by Melody Bates and David Bennett, who also appear in the show. This year Dick Cheney will be played by award-winning actor, comedian and musician Jamie Jackson, known for his work with The Onion Online and Laughing Liberally. The cast also includes Kellie Aiken, Dave Case, Tanya Elder, Randy Howk, Victoria Olson, Rob Dapore, and Yvonne Willrich-Teague.

Check out a terrific review of last year's Holiday Spectacular at NewYorkCool.com

PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS

SUMMER IN THE HUMMER

Tuesdays at 8pm
July 18th & 25th, August 1st and 8th
Ace of Clubs
(under Acme)
9 Great Jones Street @ Lafayette, NYC

Beset by scandal, DC is just too hot for the Bills, so they head off to their summer (tax) havens with George and Laura in tow. But with global warming driving the temperature up and W starting to regret that deal he made with the guy in the weird red cape, our crew of caliente corporate cronies can't seem to beat the heat. Part beach fantasia, part Faustian farce, all satirical delight!

Tickets are $12/ $10 in Billionaire Attire

For tickets call 212-352-3101 or visit www.TheaterMania.com

All Shows Start at 7:30pm
All Seats Are $12/ $10 in Billionaire Attire


More of our Previous New York City Shows:


Past Events:


Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular 2005!

Directed by Ivy League-Legacy with Bella de Ball
Choreography by Seamus Lee Rich, Music Direction by Kiki Baxx
Friday, December 16th, 2005, 7pm @ Galapagos, 70 North 6th street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sunday, December 18th, 2005, 8pm@ Ace of Clubs, 9 Great Jones Street, NYC
Tickets $15/ $12 in Billionaire Holiday Attire
Information: Follies@BillionairesForBush.com


Christmas Eve….a beleaguered last-minute shopper is desperately trying to find the hottest toy of the season at All-Mart when a holiday shopping brawl knocks her unconscious and catapults her into… Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular 2005!, a macabre, hilarious world of bling, billionaires, and season’s GREED-ings. The Billionaires For Bush are about to show her the true meaning of the holidays.
Join the sparkling and irrepressible Billionaire Follies as they raise their champagne flutes in a year-end toast to plutocracy. This year’s production includes billionaire holiday classics like "We Three Kings of Petroleum Are," “Georgie Baby,” and "Toys for the World (Are Made by Kids)." The fabulous stage show also features the icy-hot 24-Carat Rockettes—but never fear, our music is live! We busted all the unions long ago.
New to this year’s spectacular are the glorious Halliburton Chorus, “It’s a Wonderful Presidency”—in which George W. finds out just what the world would be like if he’d never been President, and a knock-down, drag-out Left vs. Right hip hop battle in which Dick Cheney takes his defense of the super-rich to the streets. Plus, when the Billionaires throw a holiday party, you never know WHO might show up. Two nights…two boroughs…The world really IS our oyster! Dick Cheney’s Holiday Spectacular 2005! is not to be missed. It’s sure to be the event of the busy holiday social season. Mark your calendars now!


MEET THE FOLLIES
The Billionaire Follies are the performing wing of Billionaires For Bush,
celebrating George W. Bush and the emerging plutocracy in song and sketch across the country. The Follies have performed everywhere from the National Press Club (where Al Franken opened for them) to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the Million Worker March, from Webster Hall to CBGB's, from SpiritNYC to The Slipper Room. They have sung live on FuseTV and Fox News, as well as on Air America's Majority Report, WBAI, and WNYE. They are available for your event! Email Follies@BillionairesForBush.com for more information.