Kimberly Akimbo: The Musical

by David Lindsay-Abaire (Lyricist), Jeanine Tesori (Composer)

Overview

2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical!

NEW JERSEY, 1999. Kimberly is about to turn sixteen and has recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Suffering from a disease that causes her to age four and a half times faster than her high school peers, surrounded by a dysfunctional family (and possible felony charges), Kimberly is also navigating her first teenage crush. Ever the optimist, Kimberly is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636701783
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	06/20/2023
Pages:	120
Sales rank:	614,608
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE is a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and librettist. His works for theater include Rabbit Hole, Good People, Shrek The Musical (Jeanine Tesori, composer), Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Wonder ofthe World, and A Devil Inside, among others.

JEANINE TESORI, the most honored female composer in Broadway history, has written works for theater, opera, and film. Her works include Fun Home (Tony Award for Best Score); Soft Power; Shrek The Musical; Caroline, or Change; Thoroughly Modern Millie; and Violet. She was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice for Fun Home and Soft Power.

Editorial Reviews

"Kimberly Akimbo is already the rare example of a good play that has become an even better musical . . . It embraces the ability of song, even in tragicomedy, to extend emotion into bigger realms . . . It is profoundly funny and heartbreaking . . . The season's most moving new musical." —Jesse Green, New York Times

From the Publisher

I was bowled over by the singular theatricality of David Lindsay-Abaire's KIMBERLY AKIMBO. The way this harrowing and hilarious work continuously shifts from satire to black comedy to realism could never work anywhere else...theatre at its most original.

NY 1

The Comedy of the Year. A haunting and hilarious new play. Mr. Lindsay-Abaire is an expert at tweaking, skewing and finally inverting established formulas. His plays tend to slide right out of predetermined pigeonholes. KIMBERLY AKIMBO is at once a shrewd satire, a black comedy and a heartbreaking study of how time wounds everyone.

NY Times

A wacky, touching and totally charming dark comedy that gives a whole new meaning to 'coming of age story.'

NY Daily News

A breezy, foulmouthed, fleet-footed, warmhearted comedy. There have been many dark comedies about dysfunctional families, but this is one of the funniest.

L.A. Times

A zany, disturbing and strangely affecting comedy. It's a bit of youthful happiness unlike any other.

Associated Press