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Performance Dates
17 June - 09 September 2017. Monday to Saturday at 7.45pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2.45pm
Run time: 1 hour and 35 min with no interval
Includes interval
Top Rated Show
Reviewers highly rate this show
165 reviews
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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music by Lanie Robertson, recounting some events in the life of Billie Holiday.
It is 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia. Billie Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witnesses to one of the last performances of her lifetime. Through her poignant voice and moving songs, one of the greatest jazz singers of all-time shares her loves and her losses.
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill premiered at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1986, with direction by Woodie King, Jr. and Reenie Upchurch as Billie Holiday. Buy tickets now it now for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at the Wyndhams Theatre in London!
“One of the most exquisite & haunting performances of the year!” - Entertainment Weekly
Songs:
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (music by Buddy Johnson; lyrics by Buddy Johnson)
When a Woman Loves a Man (music by Bernie Hanighen and Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
What a Little Moonlight Can Do (music by Harry Woods; lyrics by Harry Woods)
Crazy He Calls Me (music by Carl Sigman; lyrics by Bob Russell)
Pig Foot (And a Bottle of Beer), (music by Wesley Wilson; lyrics by Wesley Wilson)
God Bless the Child (music by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.; lyrics by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
Foolin' Myself (music by Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin; lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin)
★★★★★ ‘Audra McDonald is spellbinding as Billie Holiday. It’s the real deal. Get a ticket.’ - The Times
★★★★★ ‘Awesome, astonishing and sensational’ Mail on Sunday
★★★★★ ‘The most daring and accomplished performance of the year’ - Sunday Express
‘A powerhouse performance’ Evening Standard
‘Utterly intoxicating.’ The Telegraph
‘Absolutely astonishing.’ The I Newspaper
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