
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Zahra Newman stars as the great Billie Holiday in an extraordinary showcase of acting and vocal mastery. Featuring Holiday’s most beloved songs amid a personal, spoken-word tour of her life, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill is an iconic and intimate snapshot of one of the world’s most revered jazz voices.
It's March 1959, around midnight. The one and only Billie Holiday – known widely as Lady Day – is on stage in a small, run-down bar in South Philadelphia. Struggling with addiction and ill health, the audience is about to witness one of her final shows, singing a selection of her most loved hits.
Be in the room with Lady Day as the Fairfax Studio transforms into a cabaret venue, with Newman embodying the jazz great and singing many of her most iconic songs – among them ‘God Bless the Child’, ‘What a Little Moonlight Can Do’, ‘Somebody’s on My Mind’. Directed by Mitchell Butel, it promises to take audiences back in time to an electrifying night in the life of an extraordinary woman.
Hours 
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Location 
Fairfax Studio
Arts Centre Melbourne
100 St Kilda Rd
Southbank 3004
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