Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016)
It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music 4 months before her death.
Director: Lonny Price
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Audra McDonald as Lady Day |
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Shelton Becton as Jimmy Powers |
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David Michael Cefalu as Audience Patron |
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Katie Lynn Cotaya as Waitress |
| Directing | Lonny Price | Director |
| Writing | Lanie Robertson | Writer |
| Production | Allen Newman | Producer |
| Production | Jeff Rowland | Executive Producer |
| Production | Stewart F. Lane | Executive Producer |
| Production | Bonnie Comley | Executive Producer |
| Production | James Knudsen | Supervising Producer |
| Camera | Rick Siegel | Director of Photography |
| Art | James Noone | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tracy Christensen | Costume Design |
| Editing | Rob Burgos | Editor |
| Sound | Tim Weil | Orchestrator |
| Art | Jim King | Art Direction |