Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Stage 773
1225 W Belmont Ave Chicago

A seedy bar, Philadelphia, 1959. When the customers leave and the doors are locked, the lights go down and the show really starts. Witness one of last performances of the world’s greatest chanteuse, Miss Billie Holiday, intimately given four months before the passing of this tragic musical superstar. With her stellar jazz trio, she revisits her life, loves and losses in more than a dozen quintessential, thrilling and gut-wrenching numbers. It’s a salty, sensual, often humorous, and always riveting portrait of the legendary lady and her legacy of music.

Thru - Mar 10, 2013