Lady Day not only Sings the Blues but Makes us Laugh…and Cry.
A fabulous show, Lady Day at the Emerson’s Bar and Grill, depicting one of the last “performances” of Billie Holiday, the great Jazz singer, opened this past week, at Harlequin Productions in Olympia. Interspersed with some of her greatest hits, such as “Somebody’s on my Mind,” “What a Little Moonlight can do,” “When a Woman Loves a Man,” “Ain’t nobody’s Business” etc, were monologues about her childhood, her musical influences: Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith, touring the South with Artie Shaw (a white band leader) her unfulfilling love life, and skirmishes with the law.
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