Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

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.

Cast

Audra McDonald

Lady Day

Shelton Becton

Jimmy Powers

David Michael Cefalu

Audience Patron

Katie Lynn Cotaya

Waitress