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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1D2129;background:white">"Marissa Davis (Billie Holiday) is perfect" "Don’t miss this exquisite production" – West Side Leader
<a href="http://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-entertainment-news.asp?aID=36684">http://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-entertainment-news.asp?aID=36684</a>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">"Actress-chanteuse Marissa Davis creates an air of deep melancholy, combined with both humor and bitterness, as the title character"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">"Under the excellent direction of Terrence Spivey, Davis comes across as mature beyond her 20-something years as she brings to life one of troubled jazz singer Billie Holiday’s final
performances at a seedy bar in South Philadelphia." – The Akron Beacon Journal <a href="https://www.ohio.com/akron/entertainment/arts/review-lady-day-at-weathervane-paints-portrait-of-a-fading-billie-holiday">
https://www.ohio.com/akron/entertainment/arts/review-lady-day-at-weathervane-paints-portrait-of-a-fading-billie-holiday</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">AKRON -
<span style="color:black">Weathervane invites playgoers to be transported to a seedy bar in Philadelphia during the year of 1959 to relive one of Billie Holiday's final performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are
interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music.
<i>Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill</i> is directed by Terrence Spivey, who ran Karamu House for over 12 years and was selected as
<i>Scene Magazine’s</i> Best Director of 2017. Ed Ridley, who most recently received a Cleveland Critics Circle Award for his music direction of
<i>Ain’t Misbehavin’</i>, serves as the music director for this production. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The final weekend of<i>
<span style="color:black">Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill</span></i><span style="color:black"> runs January
</span>18 <span style="color:black">through January 21, 2018 in Weathervane’s Founders Theater. The show runs Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 - $22 and can be ordered by calling the box office at 330-836-2626
or going to </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</span></a></span><span style="color:black">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On working at Weathervane and the production, Spivey says, “I am excited to be back at the wonderful Weathervane Playhouse, having directed their productions of<i> Fences
</i>and <i>The Great White Hope. </i>Billie Holiday's music is as timely now as ever, touching the hardships and happiness that we all experience. Kudos to Melanie and Weathervane for bringing this dynamic and historical figure to the Akron stage.”<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">THE CAST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MARISSA NICOLE DAVIS<br>
Billie Holiday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">TERRENCE SPIVEY<br>
Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ED RIDLEY<br>
Musical Director/Jimmy Powers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">BRADFORD MCGHEE<br>
Bass Player <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">JASON MAURER<br>
Stage Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">BARBARA TROTTER<br>
Properties Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">AYRON LORD<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lighting Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">HAZEN TOBAR<br>
Sound Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">LOREN “COCO” MAYER<br>
Costume Designer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">RICHARD MORRIS, JR.<br>
Scenic Designer/Technical Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">KATHY KOHL<br>
Assistant Technical Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">KELLIE ROSSINI<br>
Master Electrician <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Aimee Lambes Photography<br>
AARP</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Akron Community Foundation<br>
The Akron/Summit Convention and Visitors Bureau <br>
Beatrice K. McDowell Family Fund of Akron Community Foundation<br>
The Big Love Network<br>
Best Buy <br>
Clear Gold Audio and Lighting<br>
Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust<br>
Margaret J. Dietz <br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Corinne L. Dodero Foundation for the Arts & Sciences<br>
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">GAR Foundation </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust (KeyBank, Trustee)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Kohmann Bosshard Financial Services, LLC<br>
The Millennium Fund for Children of Akron Community Foundation <br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond Magazine</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ohio Arts Council</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation<br>
The Weathervane Playhouse Volunteer Guild <br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Visit Mickey Vacations</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">WKSU 89.7 FM</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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