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Oh, what a little Billie Holiday can do

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, October 3, 2008

Landing tickets to see jazz legend Billie Holiday sing live is the kind of dream that long ago got tossed into the same “dead ambitions” bin as “marrying James Dean” and “becoming the fifth Beatle (or at least a Bee Gee)” — all decades past the realm of possibility. But this weekend at the Yale Cabaret’s season opener, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” manages to bring at least one dead dream back with the same flawless grace and captivating poignancy that Ms. Holiday herself was so famous for.

Written by playwright Lanie Robertson and directed by Patricia McGregor DRA ’09,...

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