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.
Lanie Robertson
Writer
Lonny Price
Director

Audra McDonald
Lady Day
Shelton Becton
Jimmy Powers
David Michael Cefalu
Audience Patron
Katie Lynn Cotaya
Waitress
Too Late Blues63%
Battle of the Year67%
Let It Shine69%
'Round Midnight70%
Cadillac Records70%
My Dinner with Hervé62%
Hounddog64%
TalhotBlond63%
Teen Spirit60%
Mo' Better Blues64%
Girl in the Box67%
Ray Donovan: The Movie68%
Jersey Boys67%
The Little Mermaid Live!67%
Cocaine Godmother63%
A Late Quartet66%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Honeydripper58%
The Girl61%
Grace Unplugged60%