Monologue from "Kimberly Akimbo" 978 views May 31, 2011 2 Dislike Share thechocolatechipcookie 19 subscribers Comments Add a comment. Kimberly Akimbo is the rare example of a good play that has become an even better musical, our critic writes. I'm sorry I forgot, honey. (He loves puzzles and word games; the shows title is a partial anagram.) Kimberly Akimbo takes place in 1999 in suburban New Jersey, where the title character is a 16-year-old high school student who looks like she's 72 because of a rare condition that's accelerated her aging. Clark, better known for playing grandiose characters who arent teenagers in plaid shirts, radiates compassion in the part. The seasons most moving new musical earns its place among the behemoths of Broadway. When I read the play, I saw love. Tickets and information: atlantictheater.org. That relationship isnt between Kimberly and any of her dysfunctional family members, vividly portrayed by Steven Boyer, Alli Mauzey and a scene-stealing Bonnie Milligan as the larcenous aunt respectively, but rather with her nerdy classmate Seth. Kim boldly decides to live every day like its her last. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. Regular price $20.00. The boy scout. I kept forgetting she was dead. [5], Kimberly Akimbo premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club New York City Center Stage 1 on February 4, 2003 and closed on April 6, 2003. Regular price $70.00. It is like dumping a bunch of puzzle pieces onto the table, he said. Because Im a fixture in your life. 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Akimbo can be a puzzle of a musical, but, like a clever anagram, you smile when it all comes together in the end. At New York's Atlantic Theater Company through January 15. Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Nina White, and Michael Iskander reprise their roles as Kims classmates. But among many smart adjustments made to the show for Broadway, the four schoolmates (Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander, Nina White) have been incorporated more clearly and fully as a kind of Geek Chorus. Milligan has the most obvious showstoppers, one per act, in which she introduces her crew of goody-goodies now including Kimberly and Seth to the thrilling anarchy of selfishness. Good luck with that. It's a perfect start to this funny-sad musical treat by composer Jeanine Tesori and writer and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire, based on his play. He is a bit akimbo too, a teenager who works hard, is a proud nerd, drily comic, anddespite his youthkeen to help Kim achieve her dreams to go on a road trip. TESORI I feel it in my body when something sings, I cant put it into words. So the fact that shes in his orbit, this beautiful, innocent, youthful presence also washes over her. But the hope is just to have a career. Clark, in her 60s, and the . LINDSAY-ABAIRE During Shrek, I said to Jeanine, I would love to write a musical the way that I write a play, where it would just be us figuring it out for as long as we needed to figure it out. And then Jeanine said, Well, how about one of your plays? And if Milligan has her way, an onscreen romance could very well be in her future, along with other film, television and theater projects. Father Buddy (Steven Boyer) struggles to control his drink and his temper; moony mother Pattie . Here are all the songs youll hear in Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway. Hovering midway between parody and homage, this modernist rendering of a justifiable classic proves neither illuminating nor much fun. Debbie-downer Pattie injured both her hands while filling desserts at the Sunshine Cupcake Factory and wears two sight-gag casts. Lindsay-Abaire is an award-winning writer whose work includes plays and musicals and subject matters both serious and comic. Nothing better., Isnt that enough? Tesori responded. Tesoris other well-known musicals include Caroline, or Change, Violet, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Background from left: Bonnie Milligan, Nina White, Michael Iskander, Olivia Elease Hardy and Fernell Hogan II. The Off-Broadway run of the Kimberly Akimbo musical was critically acclaimed and won Best Musical prizes and more at multiple awards ceremonies. (The bookworm. Broadway reliably churns out several tourist-bait extravaganzas a year, the kind that feature sequins, singalongs and profits. The skill that Vicki brings to the process of exploration cant be created in Justin. In a household filled with impulsive, appetitive childishness, Kimberly, who has to feed Pattie her morning cereal because both her arms are in casts, is the adult by default. That the musical in essence does the same for the rest of the characters is one of its most unusual qualities. Her father is a hopeless alcoholic, her mother is hypochondriacal and pregnant with a second child whom she prays wont suffer from the same affliction, and her aunt is a homeless, recently released ex-con who enlists Kimberly and her high-school friends in a dangerous, illicit check forgery scheme. . This is done without undue violence to the ingenious original premise, which makes comedy, as we all must, of tragedy. By turns, it can be profoundly funny or deeply moving. That adds a little bit to the glaze of authenticity, and a little understanding of the behavior, needs and pitfalls. We could crack open Kimberlys heart, and let her express all of those feelings and emotions and fears and desires and longings, that are only subtext in the play. In the funny and moving new musical Kimberly Akimbo, which opened on Wednesday in an Atlantic Theater Company production at the Linda Gross Theater, Victoria Clark brings her to life so believably and gorgeously that you find yourself rooting for a kiss you might otherwise find creepy. How odd and enlightening that, now 17 years older, Clark is playing a version of that child herself. They were really intrigued by the relationship between Kim and Seth, not because its a traditional love story. The two of them give each other really beautiful gifts, the shows director said of the actors. What's akimbo? Alexander Reeves, Jeff Monologue (Kimberly Akimbo) - YouTube From: Kimberly AkimboBy: David Lindsay-Abaire From: Kimberly AkimboBy: David Lindsay-Abaire AboutPressCopyrightContact. Kimberly Akimbo officially opened on Broadway on November 10, 2022. So the two of them give each other really beautiful gifts. The 16-year-old title character in the fascinating new Broadway musical "Kimberly Akimbo" is forced to deal with juvenile parents, a crazy aunt a body aging four times as fast as normal kids. Even when she shares an awkward kiss with a classmate named Seth Weetis played by the completely adorable 19-year-old Justin Cooley humor is the top note, sweetness the body, pathos just an aftertaste. I love stories that weave together pain, and hilarity and absurdity. Before that, she honed her craft in off-Broadway shows like Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Fosters Jasper in Deadland, as well as on the concert stage, where shes affectionately known to fans as Belting Bonnie.. She was reeling from the premature closing of Head Over Heels when she first learned of Kimberly Akimbo, ahead of its premiere staging off-Broadway, in early 2020. (One number is called The Inevitable Turn.) Its sound world including ukulele tunes, surprise double-melodies and genial pastiche most resembles that of the stage musical Shrek, another collaboration with Lindsay-Abaire, but it takes its own inevitable turn, becoming richer and more yearning as the material demands. At 16, she looks 72. [7], A musical adaptation of the play premiered at Atlantic Theater Company in November 2021, with book and lyrics by Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori. Frank Scheck has been covering film, theater and music for more than 30 years. Later on, Kimberly calls Seth and agrees to meet at the library later for the interview, as he is learning about progeria. Victoria Clark (Kimberly), Justin Cooley (Seth), and Stephen Boyer (Buddy) in the Atlantic Theater Company production of . Her overprotective father neednt worry about her getting pregnant, she reminds him, because she went through menopause four years ago. Kimberly: An outcast 16-year-old grappling with an aging disease that makes her look like shes in her 70s. The staging shares the same DNA as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Ride the Cyclone. David Zinns house-and-school set, however, does feel a little slight for even the intimate Booth. Kimberly is played by Lindsay-Abaire's unlikely but adorable muse, Marylouise Burke, 62, whose face does indeed look surprisingly girlish, despite the natural signs of age, when placed underneath. Though acute in its emotional detail, Jessica Stones staging, on a vague set by David Zinn and with choreography by Danny Mefford, is physically underpowered. Upcoming film: A Different Man (A24). Endless gratitude to Jeanine, David, Jess, Danny and Craig for their guidance and their trust. Tony Award winner Jeanine Tesori & Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire's hit musical Kimberly Akimbo is making the jump to the Great White Way this season, and this website can help you find amazing tickets for any performance! Mom is pregnant, films loony confessional videos for her unborn child and prattles on about her unfulfilled dreams of becoming a Solid Gold dancer. So, she appears to be a woman in her mid-sixties and also deals with the health issues of one. So paired with Tesoris peppy, jingle-like, adequate score is a heap of sadness. [1][2] Its title character is a lonely teenage girl suffering from a disease similar to progeria, that causes her to age four and a half times as fast as normal, thus trapping her inside the frail physical body of an elderly woman. . Our tickets are 100% verified, delivered fast, and all purchases are secure. What has it gotten me?) In another, a duet with Kimberly, he cranks out possible anagrams of her name in real time. Aside from providing B-story contrast, they underline a theme I hadnt really noticed before: the gumption of outcasts. Buddy: Kims dad, whose drinking undermines his well-meaning efforts to do his best for his daughter. It is on theme, Lindsay-Abaire said. Its good enough, in fact, that you wish it had been just a little bit better. Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes. $101.50$131.50. Thats how its gonna be when Im gone. The Kimberly Akimbo characters include various people in 1999 New Jersey. All the jokes work that way. Stone, Tesori and Lindsay-Abaire gathered to discuss their process on the first day of previews. Directed by David Petrarca, the cast starred Marylouise Burke as Kimberly. Quick View. The dark absurdist . But theres also this sense, like, weve been through some [expletive]. So remote is she from the bellowing divadom of those tourist-bait extravaganzas that Im tempted to call what she does not singing at all, but acting on pitch. Meet the artists HERE. Kimber issn, but se played by a are 'ents or seen. Kimberlys aging disorder is unnamed but is like progeria, an extremely rare, progressive genetic disorder. So naturally Kimberly Akimbo is a musical comedy. Some, like Fun Home, Dear Evan Hansen and The Bands Visit, win top Tony Awards; A Strange Loop even won the Pulitzer Prize. Here's how. Kimberly Akimbo is at the Booth Theatre. (My Blacker Olive!) Even the parents are given chances to redeem themselves in song. Bonnie Milligan, center, as Kimberlys scheming aunt, with, from left: Olivia Elease Hardy (foreground), Michael Iskander, Clark, Cooley and Nina White. And that enables so much in terms of imagination and promise. The most recent musical to run at the theatre was the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, which opened in 2009; the improv hip-hop show freestyle love supreme also played there in 2021. Far from it: Though an underground river of sorrow gives Kimberly Akimbo its keenness, the surface is shiny comedy. A musical dramedy set in New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo tells the story of a teenager named Kimberly (played by Victoria Clark) who has a disease akin to progeria, which causes her to age at a hyperspeed. Born with a fatal aging disorder akin to progeria, Kimberly Levaco (Victoria Clark) is a 15-year-old girl whose body resembles that of a woman well into her 70s. Good Kid is in fact the name of one of Seths numbers, which Cooley, in a flawless Broadway debut, delivers with charm that does not obscure their ruminative, perseverative nature. David Lindsay-Abaire, Jeanine Tesori and Jessica Stone on the Kimberly Akimbo set.CreditVictor Llorente for The New York Times. What I probably didnt know at the time was that I was also writing about my family in many ways, and things that I was afraid of and angry about. Being a former good kid and, like Seth, an aficionado of the puzzleistic arts I began to see the character and the show in anagrammatic terms. 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