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8 set 2023 · Joanna Murray-Smith’s intimate portrait on the life and legacy of Australia’s first female prime minister (and South Australia’s own) Julia Gillard, starring the prolific Justine Clarke. Lady Day, 25 August to 9 September at the Space Theatre. In a small bar in Philadelphia that’s seen better days, Billie Holiday walks onstage.
26 ott 2023 · Set in 1958, just a year before she was to pass away from cirrhosis of the liver, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill allows Holiday to tell her own story in an almost cabaret style. More a play with songs, than a jukebox musical, the music is performed by Newman and a three-piece band to the audience as though we were part of the crowd at ...
20 ago 2023 · July 15 – August 20, 2023 TICKETS & TIMES. By Lanie Robertson. Musical Arrangements by Danny Holgate. LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL is a riveting portrait of Billie Holiday and the songs that made her famous. In a captivating evening of story and song, audiences will be transported to the gritty Philadelphia bar where the legendary jazz ...
15 ago 2023 · Zahra Newman is appearing in the cabaret Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, which opens in Adelaide on 25 August. ‘Singin’s always been the best part of livin’ for me,’ Newman says in ...
Inspiring • Soulful • Tour de Force. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill recounts Billie Holiday’s life story through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witnesses to one of the last performances of her lifetime.
7 nov 2021 · The musical Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, winner of two Tony Awards in 2014, is based on that performance. Alexandria J. Henderson as Billie Holiday. The modern jazz trio of Addison Daniels on piano, Lamar Lofton on bass and Maria Wulf on drums entertains the audience before the play begins. Then Daniels assumes the role of piano man ...
31 ago 2023 · Written by Lanie Robertson and expertly directed by Mitchell Butel , Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill, which dates back to 1986, tells of the all-too-short life story and music of the jazz legend nicknamed “Lady Day”. Jazz pianist Kym Purling, as Jimmy Powers, leads the trio of piano, double bass (Victor Rounds) and drums (Calvin Welch ...
