Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill review " Audra McDonald is Billie Holiday
Wyndham's, LondonA bad gig for the jazz legend is a great one for McDonald as she embodies the troubled singer one wild night in PhiladelphiaLady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill supplies an extraordinary act of embodiment in a routine play. Lanie Robertson's one-hander captures a night in Philadelphia, when Billie Holiday performed high on booze and drugs, and barely coherent. It invites its audience to watch the si…