Musicals in LA

Friday, October 11, 2019

Photo Flash: LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL at International City Theatre

Karole Foreman. All photos by Pat Loeb.

Join International City Theatre for an intimate evening with legendary jazz songstress Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson’s glorious musical portrait of one of the greatest jazz and blues vocalists of all time. Starring Karole Foreman in the title role, and with music direction by Stephan Terry and Ebony Rep founding artistic director Wren T. Brown directing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill takes the audience through what will be Holiday’s last performance in a seedy Philadelphia bar in 1959. Foreman performs more than a dozen of her best loved songs including “God Bless the Child,” “Crazy He Calls Me,” “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” and “Strange Fruit.” Oct. 18 – Nov. 3. Get your tickets now at ICTlongbeach.org.