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 Br…
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.leading the very fine ensemble,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, likeitself, works its way into your heart with a jauntiness that both hides and ultimately amplifies its serious ambitions.
A bit later we’ll meet Kimberly’s Aunt Debra , whose life of petty crime leaves her homeless and squatting in the Levaco basement, where she hatches her next bit of outlawry . At school, Kimberly is, to say the least, an outcast, an object not so much of ridicule or bullying as curiosity. Mostly, though, she’s just invisible. We meet four of her classmates at that skating rink , themselves an uncool quartet of quirks and secret longings. The group’s one and only goal – well, aside from the clearly doomed aspirations of romance each has for one of the others – is to raise enough money to buy glitzy costumes for thenumber they want to do in a school musical competition.
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