Kimberly Akimbo, the acclaimed David Lindsay-Abaire-Jeanine Tesori Broadway musical, will launch a 75-week, 60-city North American tour in September 2024, producers announced today.
The tour will begin at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, with casting, exact dates and additional cities to be announced.
The musical made its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Off Broadway in 2021, and was named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics Circle, The Drama Desk Awards, The Lucille Lortel Awards, and The Outer Critics Circle Awards. Nominations for the Broadway production, which opened last fall, are all but certain when the Tonys unveil their list May 2.
The musical focuses on New Jersey teenager Kimberly, whose rare, rapid-aging medical condition has her looking like a 72-year-old woman and leaves her with a much-abbreviated expected life span. As unlikely as that description would suggest, Kimberly Akimbo is hysterically funny, and very moving.
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The tour will begin at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, with casting, exact dates and additional cities to be announced.
The musical made its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Off Broadway in 2021, and was named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics Circle, The Drama Desk Awards, The Lucille Lortel Awards, and The Outer Critics Circle Awards. Nominations for the Broadway production, which opened last fall, are all but certain when the Tonys unveil their list May 2.
The musical focuses on New Jersey teenager Kimberly, whose rare, rapid-aging medical condition has her looking like a 72-year-old woman and leaves her with a much-abbreviated expected life span. As unlikely as that description would suggest, Kimberly Akimbo is hysterically funny, and very moving.
The title character...
- 4/10/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Kimberly Akimbo, one of the unlikeliest, most exhilarating and unfailingly moving musicals to hit New York in years, opens on Broadway tonight having lost none of its immense charm since its Off Broadway debut lsat year swept just about every critics award there was to be swept.
Opening tonight at the Booth Theatre with its original Off Broadway cast intact, the miraculous Victoria Clark leading the very fine ensemble, Kimberly Akimbo remains a stunner, a sly, quirky, eccentric work of stage art transformed into a crowd pleaser by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s captivating book and lyrics, Jeanine Tesori’s delightful music that, like Kimberly Akimbo itself, works its way into your heart with a jauntiness that both hides and ultimately amplifies its serious ambitions. Add to all that a winning group of singing actors, from young newcomers to stage veterans, that work together with an ease and chemistry that’s...
Opening tonight at the Booth Theatre with its original Off Broadway cast intact, the miraculous Victoria Clark leading the very fine ensemble, Kimberly Akimbo remains a stunner, a sly, quirky, eccentric work of stage art transformed into a crowd pleaser by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s captivating book and lyrics, Jeanine Tesori’s delightful music that, like Kimberly Akimbo itself, works its way into your heart with a jauntiness that both hides and ultimately amplifies its serious ambitions. Add to all that a winning group of singing actors, from young newcomers to stage veterans, that work together with an ease and chemistry that’s...
- 11/11/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Kimberly Akimbo, the Off Broadway musical that’s won a slew of critics awards this season, has settled on the venue for its Broadway engagement in the fall: The production will begin previews at Broadway’s Booth Theatre on October 12, with an official opening on November 10.
The production will feature the original Off Broadway cast: Victoria Clark in the title role, Justin Cooley, Steven Boyer, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander and Nina White.
Produced by David Stone, Atlantic Theater Company, James L. Nederlander, Lachanze, John Gore, Patrick Catullo and Aaron Glick, Kimberly Akimbo features a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, music by Jeanine Tesori, based on the play of the same name by David Lindsay-Abaire, with choreography by Danny Mefford. Jessica Stone directs.
The synopsis: The musical follows Kim, “a bright and funny New Jersey teen who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady.
The production will feature the original Off Broadway cast: Victoria Clark in the title role, Justin Cooley, Steven Boyer, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander and Nina White.
Produced by David Stone, Atlantic Theater Company, James L. Nederlander, Lachanze, John Gore, Patrick Catullo and Aaron Glick, Kimberly Akimbo features a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, music by Jeanine Tesori, based on the play of the same name by David Lindsay-Abaire, with choreography by Danny Mefford. Jessica Stone directs.
The synopsis: The musical follows Kim, “a bright and funny New Jersey teen who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady.
- 5/20/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Winners of the 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced in a ceremony on May 1, 2022, at NYU Skirball. New musicals “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Oratorio for Living Things” tied for the most wins, with three trophies each. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.
The cast of Ars Nova’s “Oratorio For Living Things” took home the inaugural award for Outstanding Ensemble, while the Broadway-bound “Kimberly Akimbo” nabbed the two individual musical acting categories, with Lead Performance going to Victoria Clark and Featured Performance going to Bonnie Milligan.
Special honorees this year included Deirdre O’Connell (“Dana H.”), who was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by Heidi Schreck; and David Henry Hwang, who was inducted onto the famed Playwrights’ Sidewalk by Jeanine Tesori.
Find the nominees and recipients of the 2022 Lucille Lortal Awards below.
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The cast of Ars Nova’s “Oratorio For Living Things” took home the inaugural award for Outstanding Ensemble, while the Broadway-bound “Kimberly Akimbo” nabbed the two individual musical acting categories, with Lead Performance going to Victoria Clark and Featured Performance going to Bonnie Milligan.
Special honorees this year included Deirdre O’Connell (“Dana H.”), who was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by Heidi Schreck; and David Henry Hwang, who was inducted onto the famed Playwrights’ Sidewalk by Jeanine Tesori.
Find the nominees and recipients of the 2022 Lucille Lortal Awards below.
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- 5/2/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced April 7, 2022 by Lilli Cooper and Lea DeLaria, stars of Broadway’s “Potus.” The Lortel Awards were created in 1985 to honor outstanding achievement Off-Broadway. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on May 1, at NYU Skirball.
Tony Award hopeful Deirdre O’Connell is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She won a Lortel Award for her riveting solo performance in “Dana H.” at the Vineyard Theatre last year. That production transferred to Broadway in the fall.
Acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang is this year’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee. His name will be added to a star on the sidewalk outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street, a permanent monument to Off-Broadway playwrights.
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Tony Award hopeful Deirdre O’Connell is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She won a Lortel Award for her riveting solo performance in “Dana H.” at the Vineyard Theatre last year. That production transferred to Broadway in the fall.
Acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang is this year’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee. His name will be added to a star on the sidewalk outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street, a permanent monument to Off-Broadway playwrights.
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- 4/8/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Kimberly Akimbo, Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady were among the Off Broadway productions receiving multiple nominations for this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off Broadway, announced today.
Among the innovations in this year’s 37th Annual Lortel Awards are the first non-gendered performance categories, and the first-ever Lortel for Outstanding Ensemble. In the new Ensemble category, the inaugural nominees are the casts of English, Oratorio For Living Things, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.
Kimberly Akimbo and Oratorio For Living Things scored the most nominations, with six each, while Black No More and On Sugarland received five. Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady each have four nominations.
The awards will be handed out on Sunday, May 1, at NYU Skirball in Manhattan. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.
Among the innovations in this year’s 37th Annual Lortel Awards are the first non-gendered performance categories, and the first-ever Lortel for Outstanding Ensemble. In the new Ensemble category, the inaugural nominees are the casts of English, Oratorio For Living Things, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.
Kimberly Akimbo and Oratorio For Living Things scored the most nominations, with six each, while Black No More and On Sugarland received five. Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady each have four nominations.
The awards will be handed out on Sunday, May 1, at NYU Skirball in Manhattan. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.
- 4/7/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The critically lauded hit Off Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo will transfer to Broadway in the fall, producers announced today.
Previews will begin Oct. 12 at a Shubert Theater to be announced, with an opening date set for Nov. 10.
Making the move to Broadway will be the cast from last fall’s Off Broadway world premiere production at the Atlantic Theater, including Victoria Clark as Kimberly, Justin Cooley (in his Broadway debut), Steven Boyer, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander and Nina White.
Kimberly Akimbo features book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole) and music by Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori, based on Lindsay-Abaire’s play of the same name. Jessica Stone directs, with Danny Mefford choreographing. Producers are David Stone, Atlantic Theatre Company, James L. Nederlander, Lachanze, John Gore, Patrick Catullo and Aaron Glick.
The official synopsis: Kim...
Previews will begin Oct. 12 at a Shubert Theater to be announced, with an opening date set for Nov. 10.
Making the move to Broadway will be the cast from last fall’s Off Broadway world premiere production at the Atlantic Theater, including Victoria Clark as Kimberly, Justin Cooley (in his Broadway debut), Steven Boyer, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander and Nina White.
Kimberly Akimbo features book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole) and music by Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori, based on Lindsay-Abaire’s play of the same name. Jessica Stone directs, with Danny Mefford choreographing. Producers are David Stone, Atlantic Theatre Company, James L. Nederlander, Lachanze, John Gore, Patrick Catullo and Aaron Glick.
The official synopsis: Kim...
- 2/25/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere musical Kimberly Akimbo opened just last night for a limited engagement through Sunday, December 26th, 2021, Off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street. The new musical features 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, choreography by Danny Mefford, and direction by Jessica Stone...
- 12/9/2021
- by Bruce Glikas
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Bedwetter, a new musical based on Sarah Silverman’s bestselling memoir, will make its world premiere in an Off Broadway production next Spring, the Atlantic Theater Company announced today.
With a book by Silverman and Joshua Harmon, music by the late Adam Schlesinger and lyrics by Silverman and Schlesinger, The Bedwetter will begin performances at the Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater on April 30, 2022, with an opening date of May 23, 2022. The engagement will run through June 19.
Originally set to premiere in the spring of 2020 but delayed due to the Covid shutdown, The Bedwetter was among Schlesinger’s final projects: The Fountains of Wayne frontman died at 52 on April 1, 2020, from complications of the illness. At the time of his death, Schlesinger also had written music for an upcoming stage adaptation of the Fran Drescher sitcom The Nanny.
The Atlantic production will be directed by Anne Kauffman and choreographed by Byron Easley.
With a book by Silverman and Joshua Harmon, music by the late Adam Schlesinger and lyrics by Silverman and Schlesinger, The Bedwetter will begin performances at the Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater on April 30, 2022, with an opening date of May 23, 2022. The engagement will run through June 19.
Originally set to premiere in the spring of 2020 but delayed due to the Covid shutdown, The Bedwetter was among Schlesinger’s final projects: The Fountains of Wayne frontman died at 52 on April 1, 2020, from complications of the illness. At the time of his death, Schlesinger also had written music for an upcoming stage adaptation of the Fran Drescher sitcom The Nanny.
The Atlantic production will be directed by Anne Kauffman and choreographed by Byron Easley.
- 6/15/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Ghostlight Records has announced it will record the new musical Miss You Like Hell, the New York premiere production from The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham, for an original cast recording to be released later this year. With book and lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes, music and lyrics by Erin McKeown, and choreography by Danny Mefford, the new musical was directed by Public Theater Resident Director and Founder of Public Works Lear deBessonet, and stars Daphne Rubin-Vega and Gizel Jimenez. The recording is being produced by Erin McKeown and Kurt Deutsch.
- 5/16/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham presents the New York premiere of Miss You Like Hell. With book and lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes, music and lyrics by Erin McKeown, and choreography by Danny Mefford, the new musical is directed by Public Theater Resident Director and Founder of Public Works Lear deBessonet. Part of The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work at 425 Lafayette Street and the 50th Anniversary of Hair, the musical will now run an additional week through Sunday, May 13.
- 4/11/2018
- by Review Roundups
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced complete casting today for the New York premiere of Miss You Like Hell. With book and lyrics by Quiara Alegr a Hudes and music and lyrics by Erin McKeown, the new musical is directed by Public Theater Resident Director and Founder of Public Works Lear deBessonet, with choreography by Danny Mefford. The musical will begin previews in The Public's Newman Theater on Tuesday, March 20 and run through Sunday, May 6, with an official press opening on Tuesday, April 10.
- 1/24/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, presents Dear Evan Hansen.The original musical, featuring a score by Tony Award nominees Benj Pasek amp Justin Paul Broadway's A Christmas Story, The Musical Dogfight, a book by Steven Levenson Masters of Sex and directed by three-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif Broadway's Rent, Next to Normal, IfThen, is a contemporary, intimate story of hope, heartache and the things in life we all need-friends, family and a place to call home. With choreography by Danny Mefford and music supervision, orchestrations and dance arrangements by Tony Award winner Alex Lacamoire, Dear Evan Hansen runs now through August 23, 2015, opening tonight, July 30,in the Kreeger Theater.
- 7/30/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pump Boys and Dinettes, the final production of the 2014 Encores Off-Center series, stars Jordan Dean, Hunter Foster, Mamie Parris, Randy Redd, Katie Thompson and Lorenzo Wolff. Pump Boys, which opened last night, is directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford. Jeanine Tesori is the Encores Off-Center artistic director Chris Fenwick is the music director. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from opening night below...
- 7/17/2014
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pump Boys and Dinettes, the final production of the 2014 Encores Off-Center series, stars Jordan Dean, Hunter Foster, Mamie Parris, Randy Redd, Katie Thompson and Lorenzo Wolff. Pump Boys, and begins performances tonight, July 16. Continuing through July 19, the production is directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford. Jeanine Tesori is theEncores Off-Center artistic director Chris Fenwick is the music director. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action...
- 7/16/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pump Boys and Dinettes, the final production of the 2014 Encores Off-Center series, stars Jordan Dean, Hunter Foster, Mamie Parris, Randy Redd, Katie Thompson and Lorenzo Wolff. Pump Boys, running today, July 16, through the 19th, is directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford. Jeanine Tesori is the Encores Off-Center artistic director Chris Fenwick is the music director. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights of the cast in action below...
- 7/16/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pump Boys and Dinettes, the final production of the 2014 Encores Off-Center series, will star Jordan Dean, Hunter Foster, Mamie Parris, Randy Redd, Katie Thompson and Lorenzo Wolff, with Austin Moorhead on guitar. Pump Boys, running July 16 - 19, will be directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford. Jeanine Tesori is the Encores Off-Center artistic director Chris Fenwick is the music director. The company of Pump Boys and Dinettes met the press today, and BroadwayWorld brings you interviews with the cast, plus a sneak peek at two numbers from the show...
- 7/10/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pump Boys and Dinettes, the final production of the 2014 Encores Off-Center series, will star Jordan Dean, Hunter Foster, Mamie Parris, Randy Redd, Katie Thompson and Lorenzo Wolff, with Austin Moorhead on guitar. Pump Boys, running July 16 - 19, will be directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford. Jeanine Tesori is the Encores Off-Center artistic director Chris Fenwick is the music director. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company below...
- 7/9/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This just in New York City Center's acclaimed Encores Off-Center series, under the artistic direction of Jeanine Tesori, will return this summer for a second season of landmark Off-Broadway musicals. The season opens with Jonathan Larson's tick, tick Boom, June 25 - 28, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo, directed by Oliver Butler, and continues with a one-night only performance of Randy Newman'sFaust The Concert, with Randy Newman as the Devil, directed by Thomas Kail, on July 1. Pump Boys and Dinettes, withbook, music and lyrics by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann , directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford, wraps up the season, running July 16 - 19. Chris Fenwick is the Encores Off-Center music director.
- 3/9/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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