Cheap tickets to all lady day at emersons bar and grill shows are available on cheaptickets. With audra mcdonald, shelton becton, george farmer, clayton craddock. Lady day at emersons bar and grill concord theatricals. Zach theatre is extending the production may 18 june 11, 2017, and moving it to the kleberg stage. With humor and hopefulness, the legendary singer takes us on a journey through the highs and lows of her tumultuous life, interspersed with exuberant renditions of her beloved repertoire.
Tony awardwinner audra mcdonald plays billie holiday in this adaptation of the hit broadway play. Search all lady day at emersons bar and grill events and get last minute tickets with a 150% moneyback guarantee. Audra mcdonald in lady day at emersons bar and grill. Lady day at emersons bar and grill is a play with music featuring a 44 yearold billie holiday giving one of her last live shows in march 1959 before passing away four months later. Lady day at emersons bar and grill portland center stage. Lady day at emersons bar and grill tickets lady day at. A sixtime tonywinner, she has a rich, operatic voice, and in lady day at emersons bar and grill. Lanie robertsons 1986 work lady day at emersons bar and grill isnt exactly a musical and it isnt exactly a play.
Oh, how i wish i had gone to nyc to see her perform this piece. Lady day at emersons bar and grill by zach theatre by brian paul scipione hey, lady day. This awardwinning musical play reenacts one of the final performances of jazz legend billie holiday with stories and songs from her turbulent life. For if this version was never done we would all be missing out on something incredibly great. Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play audra mcdonald best sound design of a play steve canyon kennedy. In lady day at emersons bar and grill, audra is not audra, she is lady day. More comfortably described as a biopicperformance, the play is set in philadelphia in march 1959, some four months. Emersons tavern, located at 15th and bainbridge streets, was listed in the negro motorist travel guide. Director lonny price starring audra mcdonald, shelton becton, george farmer genres drama subtitles english cc audio languages. Lady day at emersons bar and grill from broadway to the.
Featuring iconic songs like god bless the child and strange fruit, lady day at emersons bar and grill is an allaccess pass to billie holidays final concert. Lady day at emersons bar and grill relives this final performance with billie telling her life story and singing over a. Get the best deal on the west end straight to your mobile. Nicknamed lady day by her friend and music partner lester young, holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. The show is playing at the wyndhams theatre until 9 september 2017. Lady day at emersons bar and grill runs through march 4, 2018, at the creative cauldron 410 s. She was to take a 3month break from her role on broadway in shuffle along, or, the making of the musical sensation of 1921 and all that followed. Lady day at emersons bar and grill tickets are now on sale. Its 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.
Audra mcdonald stars as billie holiday in this onewoman jukebox musical. Its 1959 and billie holiday is performing in a rundown bar during one of the last performances of her lifetime. She completely channels billie holiday, gravelly, drugaddled voice and all. The play premiered in 1986 at the alliance theatre in atlanta, georgia, and soon played offbroadway. Lady day at emersons bar and grill in the subgenre of smallscale bioshows of legendary musical performers, lady day at emersons bar and grill has been a popular attraction, not just re.
The play originally premiered in 1986 at the alliance theatre in atlanta, georgia, and then opened offbroadway. Portland center stage presents deidrie henry as billie holliday in this recreation of the jazz legends final live performance. Audra mcdonald received her eighth tony award nomination for playing the alcoholic, heroinaddicted and pioneering jazz singer billie holiday, in lady day. This work by portland center stage at the armory is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 4.
Its 1959 and jazz legend billie holiday is playing a seedy bar in philadelphia. Through her poignant voice and moving songs, one of the greatest jazz singers of alltime shares her loves and losses. According to the john coltrane reference on june 17, 1948, coltrane and percy heath stopped by emersons to see saxophonist lester young billie holidays gig at the south philly dive bar four months before her death is the setting for the broadway play, lady day at emersons. See this recreation of a singular night in music history, written by lanie robertson and directed by betty hart, in aurora. In a small bar in south philly, on a typical night in 1959, billie holiday, the icon dubbed lady day, put on a show that unbeknownst to. Adaptation of the 2014 broadway hit that won audra mcdonald her sixth tony award for her portrayal of billie holiday, who, in a haunting 1959 performance in philadelphia shortly before she. Lady day is to this day an icon that many a performer looks up to for her depth of soul and expression, but she is also a tragic soul who found solace and comfort by letting her emotions be released in song. Lady day at emersons bar and portland center stage at. Audra mcdonald is a performer of great vocal prowess and precision. It was a hard trip, too, judging from the bruised and fragile state we find her in now at rep stage, courtesy of lanie robertsons fine 1986 playwithmusic, lady day at emersons. There is no question that her presence is regal if not refined.
Lady day at emersons bar and grill is a play with music by lanie robertson, recounting some events in the life of billie holiday. Lady day at emersons bar and grill is not only a perfect star vehicle for mcdonald, who brings to life the spirit of billie holiday in lanie robertsons 1986 play but is also a delight for audiences and fans of holidays music. Chanel playing the titular role of lady day enters the stage via the audience. By lanie robertson directed by danielle drakes musical direction by wil lewis iii november 219, 2017.
Lady day at emersons bar and grill, starring audra mcdonald, takes place in the months before billie holiday died, set in a city that she had reason to loathe. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of. Reviews of lady day at emersons bar and grill learn more. Lady day at emersons bar and grill debuts at the west end mcdonald was expected to reprise her role in the west end at the wyndhams theatre, from june 15 through september 3, 2016. Lady day at emersons bar and grill tickets vivid seats. Children under 6 are not permitted at any production at the armory.
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