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Balancing beauty, torment in ‘Lady Day’

Jacqui Parker as Billie Holiday in Lyric Stage Company’s “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.’’ Jacqui Parker as Billie Holiday in Lyric Stage Company’s “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.’’ (Lyric Stage Company of Boston)
By Louise Kennedy
Globe Staff / March 30, 2010

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Billie Holiday had a complicated strength, a strength born of horrible, recurring, and sometimes self-inflicted pain. Both the pain and the strength made her singing unforgettable, if sometimes almost unbearably sad to hear. (Full article: 660 words)

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