Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Anacostia Playhouse
2020 Shannon Place SE Washington

Jazz icon Billie Holiday -- dubbed "Lady Day" by her friends -- forever changed the world of jazz and popular music with her pioneering vocal style. Despite great success and critical acclaim, though, Lady Day struggled with substance abuse and legal troubles for much of her life. Months before her untimely death in 1959, Holiday played one of her final shows in a seedy little bar in South Philadelphia, singing some of her most beloved hits and telling stories from her life and career. Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, starring Anya Randall Nebel, recreates this singular night in music history on the stage at Anacostia Playhouse.

Thru - Aug 6, 2017

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Lady Day offers Nebel the chance to work through some of the better-known songs from Holiday's songbook: the apologetic "Crazy He Calls Me," the instructive "T'ain't Nobody's Business," or the modern and chilling "Strange Fruit," to name some notable moments from the show. It also offers a context for the songs that might not have been apparent for first-time viewers. (This is a second-run of this performance - which means some are getting another chance to be blown away by Nebel.)"

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- Mike Bevel

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at Anacostia Playhouse