Billie Holiday
“Strange Fruit”

Following her critically acclaimed performance in the West End, Dawn Hope will perform as the late jazz artist Billie Holiday.
She begins her set in Philadelphia March 1959 and between songs gradually pours out the highs and lows of Billie’s life.

Dawn Hope as Billie Holiday.  www.dawnphope.com
Warren Wills as pianist Jimmy Powers.

Dawn Hope's many West End credits include the recent smash-hit Simply Heavenly, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Piaf, They're Playing Our Song, Black Mikado, Time and Little Shop of Horrors. She also made West End history by performing in two shows at the same time - Chicago at night and Ain¹t Misbehaving at matinees. Other work includes Follow My Leader at Hampstead Theatre, Josephine (Critics Circle nomination for Best Performance) at BAC, Metropolis Kabaret at the RNT and Queen of Barbary at Sadler's Wells. She has also appeared extensively in both film and TV.

Warren Wills was most recently the Musical Supervisor and arranger for Simply Heavenly at the Young Vic and Trafalgar Studios. As a Musical Director, his work includes Soul Train at the Victoria Palace and national tour, Josephine at BAC, Babel Nights at BAC, Zorro at Stratford East, The World Goes Round at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Lady Day at Emmerson's Bar & Grill at Derby Playhouse/New End Theatre, Follow My Leader at Hampstead Theatre and national tours of Midnight Hour and Patsy Cline. He is also the regular MD for Peter Straker and Sharon D Clarke.

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