Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

1h 30m
MusicDramaTV Movie
7.6

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.

Cast

Audra McDonald
Lady Day
Shelton Becton
Jimmy Powers
David Michael Cefalu
Audience Patron
Katie Lynn Cotaya
Waitress

Crew

Lonny Price
Director
Lanie Robertson
Writer
Rob Burgos
Editor
Rick Siegel
Director of Photography
Stewart F. Lane
Executive Producer
Bonnie Comley
Executive Producer
Jeff Rowland
Executive Producer
Allen Newman
Producer
Tracy Christensen
Costume Design
James Noone
Set Designer
Jim King
Art Direction
Tim Weil
Orchestrator
James Knudsen
Supervising Producer

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