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Audra McDonald to Play Billie Holiday on Broadway

The Tony-winning actress to star in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill.

Audra McDonald will be spending a lot of time on Broadway over the next couple of years. Weeks after announcing she will star in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Night, Mother opposite Oprah Winfrey, McDonald is set to play Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill.
The four-time Tony Award-winning actress will play the late jazz icon in the show, which is set in 1959 in a seedy Philadelphia bar, and relives Billie Holiday's last performance, taking place only four months before her death at age 44. 
Lady Day is set to go in front of audiences later this year, making it McDonald's next turn on the stage. Night, Mother will debut in the 2015-2016 season.
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