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CAST
Billie Holiday...LONETTE McKEE
Jimmy Powers (Piano)...DANNY HOLGATE
Buck Wilson (Guitar/Harmonica)...RUDY STEVENSON
Frankie Lee Jones (Bass)...DAVID JACKSON

TIME
Midnight on a Friday night in March, 1959, four months before Billie Holiday's death.

SETTING
A bar in South Philly.

The role of Pepe is played by Bambi Herrera

THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION.

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IMPORTED ENGLISH GIN
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PROMISE ME ANYTHING BUT GIVE ME ENGLISH SUPERTITLES

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They call me Mimi.
OPERA SUPERTITLES
Hear the beauty of the original language while you see a simultaneous projected translation.

City Opera understands, Mimi.
We know it's easier to love music than it is to learn several foreign languages.
That's why we give you English supertitles for every opera that isn't sung in English.
Our supertitles mean you can just sit back and enjoy the singing.
You hear all the beauty of the original language, just as the composer intended.
And a running translation above the stage assures that you know what's going on.
Supertitles have been a hit since City Opera introduced them to New York.
Come see what you've been missing!

1986 REPERTORY, JULY 1-NOV 16
•La Bohème—Puccini (Italian) (S)
•Candide—Bernstein (English)
Carmen—Bizet (French) (S)
•Cendrillon—Massenet (French) (S)
†Don Quichotte—Massenet (French) (S) 
•Faust—Gounod (French) (S)
•Die Fledermaus—J. Strauss (English)
Kismet—Wright & Forrest (English)
The Love for Three Oranges—Prokofiev (French) (S)
Madama Butterfly—Puccini (Italian) (S)
•The Marriage of Figaro—Mozart (Italian) (S)
•Mefistofele—Boito (Italian) (S)
†The New Moon—Romberg (English)
Norma—Bellini (Italian) (S)
•The Pearl Fishers—Bizet (French) (S)
La Traviata—Verdi (Italian) (S)
†Werther—Massenet (French) (S)
‡X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X)—Davis (English) (S)
(S) With English supertitles   †New Production
‡World Premiere   •Major Revival   Program subject to change.

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Mimi and Rodolfo
La Bohème
ILLUSTRATION BY BOB ZIERING

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NEW YORK STATE THEATER, LINCOLN CENTER
Reconstruction of New York State Theater funded by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The theater is owned by the City of New York and is funded in part by the City's Department of Cultural Affairs.

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