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Glimpse of Billie Holiday: ‘Emerson’s Bar & Grill’ at Gulfshore Playhouse
Life was not kind to Billie Holiday, but she persevered, channeling her pain into her singing. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Gulfshore Playhouse puts her in her element: onstage at a small South Philadelphia club just months before her death.
Dramaworks’ “Lady Day” Is A Tour De Force Play With Music
Veil after veil are slowly stripped away from the elegant sophisticated stage persona that is “Billie Holiday” until standing exposed is a blunted devastated victim of racism, sexism and abuse – some imposed and some self-inflicted — in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ incisive Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.
Paulette Dozier’s Superb As Billie Holiday At Stage Door
Built around a superb performance by Paulette Dozier, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill mounted at Broward Stage Door intersperses more than a dozen Holiday classics with the jazz chanteuse telling long stories about her tragic spiral.
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