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Mar 12, 2016 · Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill: Directed by Lonny Price. With Audra McDonald, Shelton Becton, George Farmer, Clayton Craddock. It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music 4 ...
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Lonny Price
- 2016-03-12
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music featuring several of Billie Holiday's most famous songs. The play was written by Lanie Robertson and recounts some events in the life of Holiday. It premiered in 1986 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and soon played Off-Broadway.
Feb 8, 2023 · “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” which debuted in 1986 and ran on Broadway in 2014, presents an intimate glimpse into this larger-than-life figure.
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. 2016. 1 hr 30 mins. Drama, Music. NR. Watchlist. It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances...
Filmed before a live audience at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill features six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in her history-making, tour de force performance as the jazz icon.
McDonald doesn't just embodies Lady Day, she captures her movements, speaking, singing and cussing vernacular to the umpteenth degree. Anyone who knows Ms. McDonald's work can attest to the fact that she is certainly multi talented but what she does with this performance is on a whole 'nother level.
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Mar 12, 2016 · It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music 4 months before her death. Lonny Price. Director. Lanie Robertson.
