MetroStage has the perfect antidote to freezing temperatures and icy roads: a sizzling hot show, “Ladies Swing the Blues,” with book and lyrics by Thomas W. Jones II and original music by William Knowles.

Set in 1955 in a club in the mecca of jazz on New York’s 52nd Street, four divas gather to celebrate the memory of one of the major stars of the jazz world: saxophonist Charlie Parker, known to his many fans as “Bird.” The sign on the stage’s back wall says “Birdland,” the name of Parker’s famous club, and the four women (Roz White, Lori Williams, Yvette Spears and Sandy Bainum) excel at evoking not just Parker’s life, but the spirit of the times in which he lived.