Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Mar 12 2016
•2h 30m
•Music, Drama, TV Movie
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.
Cast
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Audra McDonald
Lady Day
Shelton Becton
Jimmy Powers
David Michael Cefalu
Audience Patron
Katie Lynn Cotaya
Waitress
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