OMG I loved this show. Audra McDonald can do nothing bad on stage, I swear! The minute she uttered a word, it sounded like Billie Holiday. No joke! She was magnificent. The show takes place a couple of months before Billie actually died in real life. The show is 90 minutes long and in just 90 minutes you see how she drank herself to death. She was a mess. Audra deserved the tony for this play.
There was even a dog actor in the show. (The dog has even been on tour and on broadway in Legally Blonde, so it has a better resume than me, headdesk!) The 3 piece band was phenomenal. The theater is so intimate that I really felt like we were there, watching Billie. We were so close to her as well.
Our seats were rush, so they cost us $40 and were on the left side, 5th row from the front and adjacent to the stage, so we got side views, but she spent way more time looking our direction because the pianist was seated near us. If we had been on the house right side, the show would've looked very different.
I really felt like I saw Billie Holiday in concert. I was inspired after the show to listen to her actual recordings and they are VERY similar in sound. To hear Audra change her voice so much,....I'm speechless.
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