Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

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.

Director: Lonny Price

Cast

Audra McDonald

Lady Day

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Shelton Becton

Jimmy Powers

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David Michael Cefalu

Audience Patron

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Katie Lynn Cotaya

Waitress