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Billie! Backstage With Lady Day

Billie! Backstage With Lady Day takes you back to an era where the joints were jumping and Hollywood was hopping. This musically haunting, sad, happy, unpredictable journey about jazz/blues singer, Billie Holiday takes you on a winding road of love, joy, blues, racism and astounding hit songs that tell the story of a life hard fought. The road takes you to places and people in Billie's life that provided both pain and pleasure, excitement and disappointments. Billie's turbulent life has been able to bring a new level of emotion and respect to music and inspiration to musicians and vocalists all over the world.

Synthia L. Hardy stars as Billie Holiday and won an NAACP Theatre Award for Best One Person Show. The musical director, Lanny Hartley (as Piano Man), also, won an NAACP Theatre Award for Best Musical Director for this show. Other musicians include: Mark Allen Felton (aka Panther) as Lester Young, on sax; Michael Saucier as Gene Ramsey, on bass and Bobby Wilkerson as Poppa Jo Jones, on drums.