Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Overview
Winner
2014 Tony Award
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Winner
2014 Tony Award
Best Sound Design of a Play
The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. In Robertson’s Tony award-winning play, Holiday engages the audience with salty, often humorous reminiscences of her troubled life as a travelling performer in a segregated south. With the help of her piano man, Jimmy Powers, she lets music tell her story, sharing soulful and heart-wrenching songs from her memorable canon including: “Strange Fruit,” “God Bless the Child,” “When a Woman Loves a Man,” and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do.”
Cast
*Member of the Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Articles
See the teaser for Lady Day
November 7, 2021
"Lady Day" runs October 29 - November 27, 2021 at the State Theater in downtown Olympia, WA. Starring Alexandria J. Henderson* as Billie Holiday.
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In the State Theater Lobby Oct - Dec
The work of artist Sandra Bocas will be on display in the State Theater Lobby from October to December. Learn more about Sandra here!
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