Want to deal with an extremely rare disease that forces sufferers to endure adolescence and aging simultaneously? This is sixteen-year-old Kimberly’s fate.

Kimberly Akimbo, the Tony Award-winning musical now at Playhouse Square, shares a comically exaggerated look at poor Kimberly’s life as a “not typical teenager.” (Most people with her premature aging condition don’t make it past sixteen years old.) With book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, score by Jeanine Tesori, choreography by Danny Mefford, and direction by Jessica Stone, it ticks all the boxes for traditional Broadway success.

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Laura Kennelly
Berea, OH 44017

Music Critics of North America