“Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill” at Bickford Theater

“Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill”
by Lanie Robertson

A Biographical celebration of Billie Holiday's life and music. Set in a small bar in Philadelphia in March of 1959 (just four short months before her death) this extraordinary play chronicles her rise to fame as a big band songstress - in spite of a segregated society - her troubled relationships and her finaltragic end. Featuring 16 of the songs that made her famous.

Performed by Bickford Theater
At Bickford Theater
Performances ran
Thursday, January 22, 2009 thru Sunday, February 15, 2009
Lady Day.... Suzanne Douglas
Directed by Ted Sod

Note: These recording are not of the productions list here, but of Broadway or Hollywood versions.