Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

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Overview

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.

Cast

Audra McDonald

Lady Day

S

Shelton Becton

Jimmy Powers

D

David Michael Cefalu

Audience Patron

K

Katie Lynn Cotaya

Waitress

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