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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Chris Wiegand

The best theatre to stream this month: Billie Holiday’s blues, McKellen’s Lear and Newsies

Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2017.
Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2017. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill

Broadway stage sensation Audra McDonald – the winner of more Tony awards than any other performer – flew into London’s West End for one night only at the Palladium in September, singing her own selections from “the great American songbook”. That concert has been filmed for future distribution – and happily there’s already a film of her superb performance as Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson’s musical play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, seen in London in 2017 and recorded at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans. Available from BroadwayHD.

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