The inspirational recount of the life of Billie Holiday will be showing on the West End for a limited season at the Wyndham’s Theatre, starring the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning performer Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald is reprising her role as Billie Holiday on the West End
Written by Lanie Robertson and directed by Lonny Price, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill takes audiences on a fascinating journey through the life and career of Billie Holiday, one of the most celebrated jazz singers the world has ever seen.
The performance is set in 1959 in an intimate jazz bar in Philadelphia. Unbeknown to the crowd, they are witnessing one of Holiday’s last ever performances as the singer shares her loves and losses through her beautiful songs and engaging voice.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill features a poignant score, including the likes of ‘Strange Fruit’, ‘What a Little Moonlight Can Do’, ‘God Bless the Child’, ‘Crazy He Calls Me’, and more.
It has been announced that Audra McDonald will make a long-awaited West End debut at the Wyndham Theatre, reprising the role Billie Holiday, a performance which created swathes of admiration amongst critics and Broadway audiences.
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill opened on Broadway in 2014, where it received two 2014 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. On Broadway, critics hailed McDonald’s portrayal of Holiday as one of the “most exquisite and haunting performances of the year.”
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is showing at the Wyndham’s Theatre for a strictly limited run from Friday 24 June until Saturday 3 September, 2016.
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