| KIMBERLY AKIMBO to Launch National Tour | |
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| THE GREAT ADVENTURE CONTINUES!! The Most Critically Acclaimed New Musical of the Season KIMBERLY AKIMBO To Launch National Tour At Denver Center for the Performing Arts In September 2024 75-Week Tour Will Play 60 Cities Across North America Book & Lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-Winner David Lindsay-Abaire Music by Tony Award-Winner Jeanine Tesori Based on the play by David Lindsay-Abaire Choreographed by Danny Mefford Directed by Jessica Stone New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Winner for Best Musical Drama Desk Award Winner for Best Musical Lucille Lortel Award Winner for Outstanding Musical Outer Critics Circle Award Winner for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical "SUBLIME CAST = BEST MUSICAL! KIMBERLY AKIMBO SEIZES THE DAY! Profoundly funny and heartbreaking, the season's most moving new musical earns its place among the behemoths of Broadway. •Jesse Green, The New York Times "MEET YOUR NEW FAVORITE MUSICAL! It's something uncommonly satisfying, a new musical so clever, funny and touching, you might want to give everyone on stage a hug. It's happy-sad heaven. DO NOT MISS IT." •David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter "KIMBERLY AKIMBO IS ON BROADWAY, AND THE WORLD IS BETTER FOR IT. Hilarious and heartbreaking, it's the kind of entertainment — wise, original, moving — that stamps musical theater as one of the best things ever made in America." •Peter Marks, The Washington Post "THE STANDOUT NEW MUSICAL ON BROADWAY RIGHT NOW." •Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast "KIMBERLY AKIMBO SHINES EVEN BRIGHTER ON BROADWAY. Clever, touching and idiosyncratic with an ideal cast. A dark, absurdist comedy with big laughs and a score that finds sneaky ways to break your heart." •Adam Feldman, Time Out "A STUNNER WITH ONE SHOWSTOPPER AFTER ANOTHER. Humorous, heartbreaking and life-changing for all concerned, it's one of the unlikeliest, most exhilarating and unfailingly moving musicals to hit New York in years." •Greg Evans, Deadline "THE BEST NEW MUSICAL OF THE YEAR — BY FAR. KIMBERLY AKIMBO leaps into enchanting life from its first scene. Breathtakingly lovely and riotously funny, the show blends the sweet, the sad and the tartly offbeat in ideal dimensions." •Charles Isherwood, The Wall Street Journal "A HOWLINGLY FUNNY HEARTBREAKER OF A SHOW." •Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker "BEAUTIFUL. A FASCINATING NEW MUSICAL WITH A GORGEOUS SCORE." •Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune "A PERFECT PRODUCTION OF A PERFECT MUSICAL. AS GOOD AS IT GETS." •Christian Lewis, Did They Like It? "A glimmer of sunlight that shines bright and clear. A peculiar pleasure in watching KIMBERLY AKIMBO comes from thinking the musical could not possibly pull off what it is trying to accomplish and being proved wrong. Like Sondheim, Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire can craft the sound of people thinking." •Jackson McHenry, New York Magazine "ONE OF THE GREATEST MUSICALS OF OUR TIME. SOMETHING CLOSE TO A MIRACLE." •Juan Ramirez, Theatrely "IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO LOVE. Exceedingly rare, unabashedly heartfelt and irresistibly funny, it's the sort of refreshingly unexpected musical that makes an exhilarating case for the vibrancy and potential of the form." •Naveen Kumar, Variety The most critically-acclaimed new musical of the season, KIMBERLY AKIMBO, will launch a National Tour at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in September 2024. The 75-week tour will play 60 cities across North America. Casting, exact dates and additional cities will be announced on a later date. "KIMBERLY AKIMBO is the kind of Broadway musical our audiences love – smart, contemporary musical theater with lots of laughs and an original, heartfelt story," said John Ekeberg, Executive Director of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' Broadway and Cabaret divisions. "We know Denver audiences will embrace the show as much as New York has and we're beyond excited to kick off the Great Adventure of Kimberly's National Tour for audiences across the country." A new musical about growing up and growing old (in no particular order), KIMBERLY AKIMBO 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. KIMBERLY AKIMBO features book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire, based on his acclaimed play of the same name; music by Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori; choreography by Danny Mefford; and direction by Jessica Stone, KIMBERLY AKIMBO opened on Broadway to unanimous rave reviews on November 10, 2022, following its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company in December 2021. The Broadway company of Kimberly Akimbo features Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, Gigi) as Kimberly, Justin Cooley (who is making his Broadway debut), Tony Award nominee Steven Boyer (Hand to God, Time and the Conways), Alli Mauzey (Cry Baby, Wicked), Bonnie Milligan (Head Over Heels), Olivia Elease Hardy (Broadway debut), Fernell Hogan (The Prom, Mean Girls US Tour), Michael Iskander (Broadway debut), and Nina White (Broadway debut). Colleen Fitzpatrick, Skye Alyssa Friedman, Miguel Gil, Jim Hogan, Betsy Morgan, and Alex Vinh round out the cast as understudies. KIMBERLY AKIMBO features scenic design by David Zinn, costume design by Sarah Laux, lighting design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, sound design by Kai Harada, projection design by Lucy MacKinnon, and wig, hair, and make-up design by J. Jared Janas. The production's Music Director is Chris Fenwick. KIMBERLY AKIMBO features orchestrations by John Clancy, with additional orchestrations by Macy Schmidt. The Production Stage Manager is Arabella Powell and casting is by The Telsey Office, Craig Burns, CSA. Kim is a bright and funny New Jersey teen, who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging condition may be the least of her problems. Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline personalities, and possible felony charges, Kim is determined to find happiness in a world where not even time is on her side. Broadway tickets are available at Telecharge.com. For more information, please visit KimberlyAkimboTheMusical.com Please follow: @akimbomusical |
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