There is something about “Kimberly Akimbo” that feels springy and light at its heart. With music by Jeanine Tesori, it’s a delight, the standout new Broadway musical of the season so far.
And even when this musical, transferred from a successful off-
At first, we don’t know why Kimberly is at the skating rink with a group of kids somewhere in Bergen County, New Jersey, but it soon emerges that what looks like an older woman in front of us has a rare genetic disorder that has rapidly aged her body to be four times her actual age. She is really 16, yet looks and is physically 72. We learn that the average life expectancy for someone with her condition is 16. Times is not on Kimberly’s side.
You feel for every character on stage, just as they also may be occasionally infuriating, insensitive, dumb, sweet, and sweary. At home, dad Buddy drinks a lot, with Kim practiced in lying for him exasperatedly, even as he picks her up over two hours late . Pregnant mom Pattie , ratty with everyone, ratty with the world, sings a lullaby that’s been injected with bitter truth serum to an unborn child via a video camera. Expletives and vicious verbal daisy cutters whizz across the living room .
Kim wants to make as much out of life as possible, but she is around two parents who siphon off joy, who don’t recognize her as needing to live—even though they want liberation from their own demons too. Trauma has frozen each member of the family differently, and Kim does not want to feel its chilling effects any longer: “I wanna walk on stilts!/I wanna bungee jump. In Sweden./I wanna go to China. And New Zealand. And St. Louis.
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