Father Buddy (Steven Boyer) struggles to control his drink and his temper moony mother Pattie (Alli Mauzey), pregnant with a second child, openly prays #2 will be normal aunt Debra (Bonnie Milligan) rolls up, a fast-talking grifter who sows chaos. Mature inside and outside, Kimberly is de facto caregiver for her dysfunctional New Jersey clan. And so luminous Victoria Clark, clad in kid drag and exuding teen pique, plays Kimberly Levaco, for whom adolescence is hard enough without the burden of time-lapse mortality.
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How to stage the subject without falling into traps of ableist exploitation? Cast an older actress eschew cosmetic realism. This super-rare fluke of DNA causes children to age four times faster than normal, and typically ends their lives by twenty. A vengeful barber whose victims end up in meat pies? Japan’s 19th-century relations with the West in kabuki style? Presidential killers?! No topic is off limits if it inspires the writers and the story “sings.” And so welcome Kimberly Akimbo, a quirky, moody, uplifting musical about a girl with a fatal genetic condition.īased on the 2003 dark comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, who wrote book and lyrics to Jeanine Tesori’s nimble score, the hero is a 16-year-old with a progeria -like disease. One lesson from the many Stephen Sondheim tributes worth heeding: dare to adapt unlikely sources. The production opens on Decemat Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street). Victoria Clark (Kimberly) in Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere production of Kimberly Akimbo, a new musical with book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize – winner David Lindsay-Abaire, music by Tony Award – winner Jeanine Tesori, based on the critically acclaimed play of the same name by David Lindsay-Abaire, choreographed by Danny Mefford, and directed by Jessica Stone.