Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
is a play with music by Lanie Robertson, recounting some events in the latter life of Billie Holiday who, in 1947 was arrested for possession of narcotics and arrested again in 1949. She had a terrible life full of drugs, alcohol and abuse and died at age 44, on July 17, 1959, of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver
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