![]() ![]() Petersburg, runs through Sunday, April 24. The Ebony Repertory Theatre production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” at freeFall Theatre, 6099 Central Ave., St. Phone: 72 Please print your eTickets and bring them with you to the event Terms & Conditions Ticket reservations are non refundable and non-exchangeable. It’s a musically enjoyable, emotionally unsettling production and very worth the watch. ![]() Petersburg and has been featured in The Tampa Bay Times, The New York Times and Time Out New York. It's one of only two professional regional theatre companies in St. Foreman’s portrayal pulls the audience into Holiday’s painful past, which feels effortless, even as her Holiday becomes increasingly erratic. freeFall Theatre Company For a year-round season of plays, musicals and world premieres, freeFall Theatre is the place to visit. We have no current productions for this theater. Billie Holiday offered the kind of over-the-top rawness that only a television movie can, this glimpse into the iconic singer’s life feels more immediate. FreeFall Theatre Company 6099 Central Ave St Petersburg, FL 33710. The piece is filled with more than a dozen Holiday songs, including classics “When a Woman Loves a Man,” “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Crazy He Calls Me,” “God Bless the Child,” “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do,” “Don’t Explain” and the chilling “Strange Fruit.” FREEFALL THEATRE - 22 Photos & 22 Reviews - 6099 Central Ave, St. Brown, the production is simple, the staging and set spare, giving the audience the feeling of being right in the Philly bar. While we’re uncertain of the health of their relationship, he’s there making excuses for the tragic, brilliant singer. Watching Foreman’s slow tumble from the beginning of the play is fascinating and fills us with tension.ĭamon Carter, as pianist Jimmy Powers is an accomplished musician and is the only other character onstage throughout the evening. The very nature of the play - its location and when it is set in her life - assures that the audience knows going in that it’s going to be a harrowing ending. The play is filled with more than a dozen Holiday songs, including classics “When a Woman Loves a Man,” “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Crazy He Calls Me,” “God Bless the Child,” “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do,” “Don’t Explain” and the chilling “Strange Fruit.”Īs Holiday, Karole Foreman brings pain and delight in equal measure. Sentenced to over a year at Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia, Holiday had her cabaret license revoked in New York, a significant loss in income for the singer. The location symbolizes the absolute bottom for Holiday in the play, she expresses her distaste for the city, where she was tried and convicted for drug possession years earlier. Set in 1959, the play takes place in a Philadelphia bar, which was actually listed in the Negro Motorist Travel Guide, or Green Book, as Emerson’s Tavern, four months before Holiday died. The production brings us face-to-face with the iconic songstress at death’s door. PETERSBURG – freeFall Theatre presents the Ebony Repertory Theatre production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” a play with music by Lanie Robertson, through April 24. Peteand run from March 25-April 24typically Wednesday through. Petersburg, running through Sunday, April 24. These poignant performances of 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill' take place inside freeFallat 6099 Central Ave. But the costumes don’t feel stuck in that era, particularly the bright pink shredded denim attire of Bogle, who Jeffers said was inspired by a 1990s riot girl.The Ebony Repertory Theatre production of ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ on stage at freeFall Theatre, 6099 Central Ave., St. The mother of punk, designer Vivienne Westwood, was Jeffers’ main influence. It seems to work really well for a theatrical production.” “And then you take that and you kind of dial it down or manipulate the structure or the texture or the color schemes. ![]() There is such an elevated air to it,” he said. “I always like to look at like high fashion couture, especially Haute Couture. Jeffers took inspiration from people who made the punk influence their own. As themes of time in the play shift, Jeffers manipulates the color palette, making the garments from the past brighter because they are vivid memories and ones from the unclear future muddier. ![]() Jeffers hand-painted the backs of jackets to echo the brushwork of the graffiti. Franck designed a black background, with phrases from the play scrawled on the walls and floors and symbols in bright graffiti. Maharaj told Jeffers and scenic designer Phillip Franck that the set and costumes should be part of the storytelling, akin to a fifth character. The dialogue of Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol is rooted in the Dickensian era, but the set and costumes make it visually modern. ![]()
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