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An’ I want lots an’ lots of kids. If I o...

Billie Holiday

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Lanie Robertson

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
A run-down night club in Pennsylvania in 1959
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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An’ I want lots an’ lots of kids. If I only coulda had me some kids I… I never would have… I’d never have got into no trouble. I’m sure of it.

[... … …]

And I also wanted Bessie’s big sound, but my voice wasn’t big like that, so between the two of them I sort of got Billie Holiday. But Pops Armstrong and Bessie Smith on the victrola was sort of Mom and Pop to me.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Lanie Robertson, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Concord Theatricals, 1959, pp. 15-16.

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