MEG FLATHER BACK AT METROPOLITAN ROOM, NYC, WITH NEW SHOW --
“HOME SHOPPING DIVA” – SAT., DEC. 12, 9:30 PM

NEW YORK, Fall 2009 – Meg Flather (www.megflather.com), known to millions as one of home shopping television’s most popular on-air personalities, returns to New York’s Metropolitan Room (34 West 22 Street in Manhattan) with a brand new show.  Flather will appear in “Home Shopping Diva…songs of love, loss, & lipstick” at the Metropolitan Room Sunday, November 1 at 4 pm and Saturday, December 12, at 9:30 pm.  Call 212-206-0440 for reservations.  There is a $15 cover charge and two-drink minimum. 

“Home Shopping Diva…songs of love, loss, & lipstick” is inspired by Flather’s second career as a popular cosmetics salesperson on domestic and international home shopping TV channels.  But Flather, who has appeared on QVC, Shop NBC, HSN, TVSN ( Australia ), and The Shopping Channel ( Canada ), has enjoyed a life-long parallel career as an acclaimed singer and songwriter.  With more than two decades writing and performing, Flather boasts five albums, all of which are commercially available via www.amazon.com and www.theorchard.com. A member of ASCAP her original compositions are published by Margaret Hall Music.

Laced with humorous snippets of her life story, including a childhood spent in the Philippines where her father was a director for the US Peace Corps during the Kennedy Administration, “Home Shopping Diva” celebrates Flather’s life behind the cosmetic counters of New York City (“I think I worked at every department store in New York,” she says).  That experience, together with her training as a performer on stage and television (Flather was a regular comic actor on Conan O’Brien’s New York TV show for NBC) made her what she is today:  One of television’s top cosmetic hawkers beloved by millions of women.   In addition to hommage to the great female singers and composers who inspired her musical career, Flather’s “Home Shopping Diva” includes some comedy songs as well as sendups of the home shopping TV phenomenon and heartfelt snippets of her work advising women seeking the lost luster of their youth.

As a singer and songwriter, Flather is a two-time Backstage Bistro Award-winner.  Her original music is heard in the soundtracks of theatrical films, including one that bowed at the Cannes Film Festival, as well in as the Off-Broadway play, “Acts of Love,” and “A Secret Best Not Kept,” a multi-media project to prevent teen suicide.  She has also performed as a special guest at the Tribeca and Vermont Film Festivals.  As a comedic actor Flather has been seen on NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and the syndicated “Rosie O’Donnell Show.”

Her band includes pianist Paul Greenwood, drummer John Mettam, and bass player Jamie Rogers.

20.00 Cover + 2 Beverage Minimum