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Audra McDonald is an American screen and stage actor, singer and musical theatre performer, who makes her rescheduled West End debut in June 2017, reprising her role in the Broadway transfer of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, Lonny Price's musical play about Billie Holiday.
With a record six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a long list of other accolades to her name, McDonald is among today’s most highly regarded performers. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth telling, she is equally at home on Broadway and opera stages as she is in roles on film and television. In addition to her theatrical work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world.
Five of McDonald's Tony Awards are for musical performances in: Carousel (1994), Master Class (1996), Ragtime (1998), Porgy and Bess (2012) and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2014). Her sixth Tony, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, was for a revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2004).
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LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winner Audra McDonald will make her long-awaited West End debut portraying legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the musical play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. This critically acclaimed production will play a limited engagement at the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre, having broken ...
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It may have been postponed last year due to her pregnancy, but Audra McDonald has finally arrived on our shores to make her West End debut in LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL. The six-time Tony Award winner (a record number, the latest of which was for this show), who plays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the musical play has been astonishing fans and critics alike and we can understand why. We've put together a round-up of all the top reviews, and don't forget to watch our interview with her on opening night...
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