The Royal Room Cabaret at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beachpresents Marianne Challis This Weekend

 “The Colony’s 2008-2009 Cabaret Season will be our biggest and best ever. Instead of having to fly up to New York City to see major cabaret stars at the Algonquin’s Oak Room, the Carlyle or Feinstein’s at the Regency, fans of the Great American Songbook now can enjoy many of the same extraordinary performers within the cozy confines of the Royal Room. I can guarantee the quality of these performers because I personally reviewed each one,” promises Roger Everingham, general manager of Palm Beach’s favorite boutique hotel, which has repeatedly earned the highly coveted “4-Diamond Rating,” from AAA.

Widely considered to be one of the top cabaret venues in the country, The Colony’s Royal Room has scheduled another audience-pleasing line-up of performers.   Marianne Challis will perform Oct. 24-25 & Oct. 31-Nov. 1st.  Marianne Challis is an audience-wowing combination of sophisticated chanteuse and rib-ticking comedian. The refreshing and irreverent cabaret star, who is the vocal coach for numerous Broadway stars, performs an eclectic mix of new and classic tunes from the Great American Songbook.

Reviews of Marianne Challis: + New York Post: “Marianne Challis is Betty White in cabaret – spunky, bright, satirical… and she has Mermanish rhythms. This is truly a silver Challis.” + Opera News: “A blazing talent (that) connected profoundly with every song she tackled... Lovers of first-class pop singing should catch Marianne Challis at her next major engagement.” + Cabaret Scenes: “Like a fine wine (that has) continued to mature in a most satisfying way… and, being witty and personable, keeps her audience charmed as she segues from song to song with anecdotes and asides.”

During the Fall cabaret season (October-December 2008), each of the cabaret performers will do an 8 p.m. show on Friday and Saturday -- except for The Four Freshmen, which will perform Wednesday through Saturday, December 17-20.

During January through April 2009, the 8 p.m. shows will run Tuesday through Saturday, with a 10 p.m. late show on Friday and Saturday – except for Jack Jones (February 24 – March 7) who is not scheduled to perform any late shows.

The Colony Hotel – which The Palm Beach Post has hailed as “probably the best cabaret on the planet” – plans another sizzling, song-filled season at the hotel’s celebrated Royal Room, featuring some really hot headliners straight from Manhattan’s most sophisticated nightspots and Broadway – including, in fact, a Royal Room regular who was a 2008 Tony Award nominee.

For all Royal Room evening performances, the doors open at 6:45 p.m. for dinner and the show starts around 8.  To make reservations, call the hotel box-office at 561.659.8100 or email them at robrussell@thecolonypalmbeach.com.