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Review: Lyric Stage’s ‘Lady Day’ gives a severe and sentimental look at a music legend
In the program director’s notes for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by Lyric Stage, the playwright recalls her boyfriend seeing Billie Holiday perform for some seven people in 1959 at a dive bar three months before she died. That left a haunting image for Lanie Robertson. In response, she wrote Lady Day as “an attempt to rid myself of that ghost.” The question is: Did she succeed?