Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

The read

It runs a compact 1h 30m.

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Lanie RobertsonWriter
• Lonny PriceDirector

Cast

• Audra McDonaldLady Day
• Shelton BectonJimmy Powers
• David Michael CefaluAudience Patron
• Katie Lynn CotayaWaitress

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