Lady Day-HBO Audra McDonald Special Coming in March 2016!



Lady Day,  HBO,  Audra McDonald, Posted By: DeAlan Wilson
Filmed before a live audience at "Cafe Brasil" in New Orleans, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill features six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in her history-making, tour de force performance as the jazz icon.
 
Originally written for off-Broadway by Lanie Robertson in 1987, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill tells Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous, including "God Bless the Child," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," "Strange Fruit" and "Taint Nobody's Biz-ness."


Audra McDonald portrays legendary singer
Billie Holiday in the new HBO production of
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill.
Image Courtesy: HBO Productions

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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill is directed by Lonny Price, who also directed the Broadway production, and produced by Allen Newman and Two Hands Entertainment. It was originally produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jessica Genick and Will Trice.


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