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Play about Billie Holiday

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Written past Lanie Robertson
Characters Billie Holiday
Jimmy Powers
Pepi
Date premiered April sixteen, 1986 (1986-04-sixteen)
Identify premiered Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia
Original language English

Lady Mean solar day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music by Lanie Robertson, recounting some events in the life of Billie Holiday. The play premiered in 1986 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and shortly played Off-Broadway. The play opened on Broadway in 2014.

Production history [edit]

Lady Solar day at Emerson'due south Bar and Grill premiered at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, on April 16, 1986, with management by Woodie Male monarch Jr. and Reenie Upchurch as Billie Vacation.[1]

The play was next produced Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre on June 5, 1986,[ane] and then opened in a Vineyard Theatre production at the Westside Theatre on September vii, 1986.[two] [3] This production closed on May 17, 1987 after 281 performances. Directed by Andre Ernotte, Lonette McKee starred every bit Holiday. In February 1987 S. Epatha Merkerson took over the role of Billie Holiday.[4] The play won the 1987 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Book (Robertson).[v]

The Hollywood Playhouse (in California) produced Lady Twenty-four hours in October 1987, directed past Andre Ernotte, and with S. Epatha Merkerson reprising her role every bit Vacation. Ernotte said that he wanted to "deglamorize Billie: show the nighttime, distressing side. So it's not so much a nightclub deed as a theater play with music." He also noted that Merkerson brought some other aspect to the function as an extra rather than as a vocalizer.[6] The play was presented at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Oasis, Connecticut in Nov 2005, with Ernestine Jackson as Billie Holiday.[seven]

The play opened on Broadway at Circumvolve in the Square on April 13, 2014. Directed by Lonny Price, the production starred Audra McDonald as Billie Holiday and featured Shelton Becton as pianist Jimmy Powers. The sets are past James Noone, costumes past Esosa, lighting by Robert Wierzel and audio by Steve Canyon Kennedy.[eight] [ix] The play was originally scheduled for a express 10-week date, but was extended several times[x] until information technology finally closed on October 5, 2014.[eleven] Audra McDonald won her record-breaking sixth Tony Award for the production, and she became the merely person to win in all iv acting categories, this fourth dimension winning for Best Actress in a Play. The play as well won for Best Sound Blueprint of a Play.[12]

The 2014 Broadway product was filmed at the Cafe Brasil in New Orleans and broadcast on HBO on March 12, 2016.[13] Audra McDonald received a 2016 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Extra in a Limited Series or Picture show for her role in the broadcast.[14]

McDonald was expected to reprise her role in the Due west End at the Wyndham'due south Theatre, from June 15 through September 3, 2016. She was to take a 3-month break from her role on Broadway in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed.[15] However, in a alter announced on May ten, 2016, Lady Day was postponed because McDonald and her hubby Will Swenson were expecting a baby. She said, in part: "Of course, I'm disappointed I have to postpone my Westward End debut in Lady Day, but I await forward to rescheduling as soon as possible."[16] [17] The play was rescheduled, with McDonald making her West Cease debut at Wyndham's Theatre from June 27, 2017 through September 9, 2017.[18]

Plot [edit]

The play takes place in South Philadelphia in March 1959. Billie Holiday is performing in a run-down bar, during one of her last performances before her death in July 1959. She sings, accompanied by Jimmy Powers on the piano, and also tells stories almost her life equally she becomes increasingly intoxicated and breathless.

Songs [edit]

  • "I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone" (music by Buddy Johnson; lyrics by Buddy Johnson)
  • "When a Adult female Loves a Man" (music by Bernie Hanighen and Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
  • "What a Fiddling Moonlight Can Exercise" (music by Harry Woods; lyrics by Harry Woods)
  • "Crazy He Calls Me" (music by Carl Sigman; lyrics by Bob Russell)
  • "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)", (music past Wesley Wilson; lyrics by Wesley Wilson)
  • "Babe Doll"
  • "God Anoint the Child" (music by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.; lyrics past Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
  • "Foolin' Myself" (music past Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin; lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin)
  • "Somebody's on My Heed" (music by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.; lyrics by Billie Vacation and Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
  • "Easy Livin'" (music by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin; lyrics past Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin)
  • "Strange Fruit" (music past Abel Meeropol; lyrics by Abel Meeropol)
  • Dejection Break
  • "T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Practise" (music by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins; lyrics by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins)
  • "Don't Explain" (music by Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday; lyrics by Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday)
  • "What a Picayune Moonlight Tin Do" (Reprise) (music by Harry Woods; lyrics by Harry Woods)
  • "Deep Song" (music by George Cory and Douglass Cross; lyrics past George Cory, Douglass Cantankerous)

Critical reception [edit]

In his review of the 2005 Long Wharf production for Variety, Frank Rizzo wrote:

...two-time Tony nominee Ernestine Jackson... presents the singer as a simultaneously strong and desperate figure who finds some solace in her songs, but more in her own personal "moonlight" of drugs, booze and memories. Jackson nicely suggests rather than mimics the famous Holiday deeply lived sound in a prove filled with more a dozen tunes accompanied by an accomplished trio. But this is far from a simple songbook, and the cumulative power comes in the unraveling of an addicted artist and her story at the end of her days.[nineteen]

Critics praised the operation of Audra McDonald in the 2014 Broadway production while not beingness every bit enthusiastic about the writing.[xx] In his review for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood said,

it's worth putting upward with the prove's tackier (and duller) aspects for the pleasure of hearing Ms. McDonald breathe aching life into some of Holiday's greatest songs. She has tamped downward the lush flower of her voice to advise the withered state of Holiday's instrument during the last years of her career, just the sound remains tangy, expressive and rich.[21]

Marilyn Stasio in Variety chosen the play'due south script "unrealistically stuffed with only virtually every known biographical detail about [Vacation's] unhappy life", simply praised McDonald's performance, saying

she captures the plaintive sound, the eccentric phrasing and all the little vocal catches that identify Billie Holiday's unique style. But information technology's her extraordinary sensitivity as an actor that makes McDonald's interpretation memorable.[22]

Recording [edit]

PS Classics recorded the cast album live during the May 27–31 performances, with the anthology scheduled for release on July 15, 2014.[23]

Awards and nominations [edit]

  • Audra McDonald was nominated for the 2017 Screen Actors Order Award, Screen Actors Guild Honour for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
  • Audra McDonald was nominated for the 2016 Emmy Award, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Moving picture.
  • Audra McDonald won the 2014 Drama Desk-bound Award, Outstanding Extra in a Play.[24]
  • The play received two 2014 Outer Critics Circumvolve Awards nominations: Outstanding Revival Of A Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) and Outstanding Actress In A Musical (Audra McDonald).[25] Audra McDonald won the accolade.[26]
  • The play received two 2014 Tony Award nominations: All-time Performance by an Actress in a Leading Part in a Play and Best Sound Design of a Play (Steve Canyon Kennedy).[27] (The Tony Awards Administration Committee had decided that Lady Solar day at Emerson'due south Bar and Grill is eligible for the category of Best Revival of a Play, and that ruling made McDonald eligible for All-time Actress in a Play.[28]) Audra McDonald won for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Part in a Play and Steve Canyon Kennedy won for Best Sound Design of a Play.[29]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Robertson, Lanie. Script, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, (books.google.com) Samuel French, Inc., 1989, p. 5, ISBN 0573681848
  2. ^ "Lady Day at Emerson'due south Bar and Grill at the Vineyard", vineyardtheatre.org, accessed April 27, 2014
  3. ^ "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" samuelfrench.com, accessed April 27, 2014
  4. ^ Gerard, Jeremy. "Lonette McKee Leaves Lady Twenty-four hours Over Health", The New York Times, Feb 21, 1987
  5. ^ "List, 1986", Internet Off-Broadway Database, accessed April 27, 2014
  6. ^ Arkatov, Janice. "Lady Day Without The Glamour", Los Angeles Times, Oct 11, 1987
  7. ^ Rizzo, Frank. "See Lady 24-hour interval at Long Wharf", The Courant, October 27, 2005
  8. ^ Isherwood, Charles. Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill", The New York Times, April xiii, 2014
  9. ^ Hetrick, Adam. "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Starring Audra McDonald, Opens on Broadway April 13" Archived 2014-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, Apr 13, 2014
  10. ^ "Following Record-Breaking Tony Win, Audra McDonald and Lady Twenty-four hour period Extend Broadway Run" Archived 2014-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, June eleven, 2014; Hetrick, Adam. "Lady Twenty-four hour period at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Starring Audra McDonald, Extends Broadway Run" Archived 2014-05-30 at the Wayback Motorcar, Playbill, Apr xvi, 2014; and Hetrick, Adam. "Broadway'due south Lady Day, With Audra McDonald, Extends for 3rd Time" Archived 2014-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, July 7, 2014
  11. ^ Hetrick, Adam. "Audra McDonald's Lady Day Sings Her Last Song on Broadway", Playbill, October 5, 2014
  12. ^ "Quick Facts". Tony Awards (IBM Corp).
  13. ^ Gans, Andrew. "Lady Day at Emerson'southward Bar and Grill Debuts on HBO Tonight", Playbill, March 12, 2016
  14. ^ Clement, Olivia. "Audra McDonald, Viola Davis, Bryan Cranston Among 2016 Emmy Nominees" Playbill, July 14, 2016
  15. ^ Shenton, Mark. "Audra McDonald to Brand West End Debut in Lady Day", Playbill, January 15, 2016
  16. ^ Gans, Andrew. "Audra McDonald and Will Swenson Are Expecting a Baby" Playbill, May 10, 2016
  17. ^ Marshall, Charlotte. "Audra McDonald's 'Lady Twenty-four hours' Postponed" officiallondontheatre.co.uk, May 11, 2016
  18. ^ "Audra McDonald Makes Long-Awaited W End Debut as Lady Day Opens in London" Playbill, June 27, 2017.
  19. ^ Rizzo, Frank. "Review: Lady Day at Emerson'southward Bar and Grill", Diverseness, November six, 2005
  20. ^ "Lady Day at Emerson'due south Bar and Grill Review Summaries" Archived 2014-04-29 at the Wayback Auto, stagegrade.com, accessed April 28, 2014
  21. ^ Isherwood, Charles (April xiii, 2014). "Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill". New York Times . Retrieved Apr 29, 2014.
  22. ^ Stasio, Marilyn. "Broadway Review: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill Starring Audra McDonald". New York Times . Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  23. ^ Hetrick, Adam. "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Starring Audra McDonald, Will Be Recorded Live" Archived 2014-05-29 at the Wayback Auto, Playbill, May 29, 2014
  24. ^ Gans, Andrew. "Winners of 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards Announced; 'Admirer's Guide' and 'All the Style' Win Top Prizes" Archived 2014-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, June i, 2014
  25. ^ Gans, Andrew. "64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations Appear; 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' Leads the Pack" Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, Apr 22, 2014
  26. ^ Gans, Andrew."64th Almanac Outer Critics Circle Award Winners Announced; 'Gentleman's Guide' Wins Four Awards" Archived 2014-05-12 at the Wayback Auto, Playbill, May 12, 2014
  27. ^ Gans, Andrew. "68th Annual Tony Awards Nominations Appear; 'Gentleman's Guide' Leads the Pack" Archived 2014-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, April 29, 2014
  28. ^ Hetrick, Adam and Gioia, Michael.[ http://www.playbill.com/article/updated-tony-awards-administration-committee-rules-on-hedwig-cabaret-violet-lady-24-hour interval-bullets-over-broadway-and-more-com-217665 Updated: Tony Awards Administration Committee Rules on Hedwig', Cabaret, Violet, Lady Day, Bullets Over Broadway and More"] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2014-05-12 . {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Playbill, Apr 25, 2014
  29. ^ Staff. "Merely the Winners, Delight: Who Won the 68th Annual Tony Awards" Archived 2014-06-09 at annal.today, Playbill, June viii, 2014

External links [edit]

  • Cyberspace Off-Broadway Database, 1986
  • Internet Broadway Database listing
  • playbillvault.com

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Day_at_Emerson%27s_Bar_and_Grill

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