Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

About 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.

Lonny Price's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill is a 2016 music tv movie film. At 90 minutes long, it arrived in March 2016.

Audra McDonald appears as Lady Day, Shelton Becton as Jimmy Powers, David Michael Cefalu as Audience Patron, and Katie Lynn Cotaya as Waitress. Written by Lanie Robertson.

Members will find jazz, jazz singer or musician, jukebox musical, and blues in it. It streams on BroadwayHD and Broadway HD Amazon Channel in the United States.

Soul, The Blues Brothers, and The Color Purple make useful companions to Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill.