Tony Monopoly (3 December 1944 – 21 March 1995)[1] was an Australian-born cabaret singer and actor who enjoyed success in the United Kingdom.
[2] Born Antonio Rosario Monopoli in Adelaide, he was a regular on the national radio show, Kangaroos on Parade at the age of nine as a boy soprano.
By the early 1980s Monopoly performed aboard cruise liners, "I lived on one yacht for a year," he said.
[2] When fulfilling his increasingly rare engagements on dry land, he divided his time between Australia and the UK.
He starred – in drag – in Moby Dick, the inaugural production at the newly refurbished Old Fire Station Theatre in Oxford.