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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
- Title
- Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill [videorecording] / Coconut Grove Playhouse, Arnold Mittelman, producing artistic director, Lynne Peyser, associate producer, presents ; [written] by Lanie Robertson ; directed by Arnold Mittelman.
- Publication
- Miami, Fla., 1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Restricted use | NCOV 1025 | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (82 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- A play based on the life of singer Billie Holiday, dramatizing a performance in a Philadelphia nightclub in 1959, during the last days of her life.
- Subjects
- Singers > United States > Drama
- Theatrical productions > Florida > Miami > 1981-1990
- Theater > Florida > Miami
- African American theater > Florida > Miami
- African American women singers > Drama
- Women jazz singers > United States > Drama
- Drama
- Entertainers > United States > Drama
- Musical theater > Florida > Miami
- African Americans in the performing arts > United States > Drama
- African American singers > Drama
- Women blues musicians > United States > Drama
- Blues musicians > United States > Drama
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 > Drama
- Genre/Form
- Drama.
- Note
- No credits on tape. Production credits gathered from the program.
- A videorecording of the Off-Broadway production of this play, taped at the Westside Arts Theatre on Dec. 10, 1986, is available on NCOV 562. A videorecording of the Broadway production of this show with Audra McDonald, taped at Circle in the Square on Oct. 2, 2014, is available on NCOV 3890.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Credits (note)
- Musical direction by Darryl G. Ivey ; set design by Stephen Lambert ; lighting design by Stuart Duke ; costume design by Ellis Tillman ; sound design by Allen Zipper ; musical arrangements by Danny Holgate ; prod. stage manager, Rafael V. Blanco.
- Performer (note)
- Starring Ernestine Jackson (as Billie Holiday), and Darryl G. Ivey.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, Fla., June 7, 1989.
- Call Number
- NCOV 1025
- OCLC
- 652551429
- Title
- Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill [videorecording] / Coconut Grove Playhouse, Arnold Mittelman, producing artistic director, Lynne Peyser, associate producer, presents ; [written] by Lanie Robertson ; directed by Arnold Mittelman.
- Imprint
- Miami, Fla., 1989.
- Access
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Credits
- Musical direction by Darryl G. Ivey ; set design by Stephen Lambert ; lighting design by Stuart Duke ; costume design by Ellis Tillman ; sound design by Allen Zipper ; musical arrangements by Danny Holgate ; prod. stage manager, Rafael V. Blanco.
- Cast
- Starring Ernestine Jackson (as Billie Holiday), and Darryl G. Ivey.
- Event
- Videotaped at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, Fla., June 7, 1989.
- Local Note
- Gift of the Coconut Grove Playhouse.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Coconut Grove Playhouse (Miami, Fla.), producer.Mittelman, Arnold, producer.Mittelman, Arnold, director.Peyser, Lynne, producer.Ivey, Darryl G., musical director.Ivey, Darryl G, performer.Lambert, Stephen, set designer.Duke, Stuart, lighting designer.Tillman, Ellis, costume designer.Zipper, Allen, sound designer.Holgate, Danny, arranger of music.Blanco, Rafael V., production stage manager.Jackson, Ernestine, performer.Coconut Grove Playhouse (Miami, Fla.), donor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOV 1025