LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL
Human Race Theatre Company
Sept. 12-29
The Loft Theatre [Dayton]
In 1959, Billie Holiday, or “Lady Day” as she was called, performed one of her final shows in a run-down bar in South Philly. In Robertson’s award-winning play, Holiday engages the audience with salty, often humorous reminiscences of her troubled life as a travelling performer in a segregated south. With the help of her piano man, Jimmy Powers, she lets music tell her story, sharing soulful, heart-wrenching and bawdy songs from her memorable canon including: “Strange Fruit,” “God Bless the Child,” “When a Woman Loves a Man,” and “Taint Nobody’s Business If I Do.”
- In preview Thu, Sept. 12 at 8pm
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 13-14 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 15 at 2pm & 7pm
- Tue-Wed, Sept. 17-18 at 7pm
- Thu-Sat, Sept. 19-21 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 22 at 2pm
- Tue-Wed, Sept. 24-25 at 7pm
- Thu-Sat, Sept. 26-28 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 29 at 2pm
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