
Lady Day, a Musical Tragedy (1972 off-Broadway) - repro
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Aishah Rahman and Archie Shepp’s groundbreaking contemporary jazz drama 'Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy' exploded onto the Off-Broadway stage at the historic Brooklyn Academy of Music complex in 1972, completing an accomplished commercial residency. Conceived as an intellectually fierce, textually raw psychological chronicle driven note-for-note by a thundering live avant-garde jazz orchestration, the non-linear narrative examines the unvarnished biographical rifts of blues legend Billie Holiday.

