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Review: Touching, quirky ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ winner of 2023 Tony for best musical, steals hearts

The great Victoria Clark won a Tony Award for her performance in “Kimberly Akimbo,” and the question was always who could fill her shoes when David Lindsay Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony-winning musical went on tour. Carolee Carmello, left, Miguel Gil and Jim Hogan in the national tour of “Kimberly Akimbo.” Based on the 2000 play by Lindsay-Abaire, “Kimberly Akimbo,” …

NEW YORK — The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell. Victoria Clark, as the lead in the show, …

The intimate, funny-sad musical Kimberly Akimbo nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell. Producer David Stone credited the musical’s writers for penning a magic …

NEW YORK — Select final winners at the 2023 Tony Awards: Best musical: “Kimberly Akimbo” Best play: “Leopoldstadt” Best revival of a musical: “Parade” Best revival of a play: Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical: Victoria Clark, “Kimberly Akimbo” Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play: …

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Other big winners include Kimberly Akimbo for Best Musical, Leopoldstadt for Best Play and Parade for Best Musical Revival Jodie Comer won Lead Actress for Prima Facie as she took home the night's top prize All eyes were on the red carpet at United Palace Theater in New York City on Sunday, June 11 as the biggest stars on Broadway …

Ranking this year’s Tony best musical nominees from worst to best

CBS presents THE 76TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, which will broadcast live from the United Palace in New York City on Sunday, June 11, 2023, on the CBS Television Network and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+. ‘New York, New York,’ St. James Theatre Expectations were running high for this musical adaptation of Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film starring Robert De …

NEW YORK — Select nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards, announced Tuesday. Best Musical: “& Juliet,” “Kimberly Akimbo,” “New York, New York,” “Shucked,” “Some Like It Hot.” Best Play: “Ain’t No Mo,’” “Between Riverside and Crazy,” “Cost of Living,” “Fat Ham,” “Leopoldstadt.” Best Revival of a Play: “August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson,” “A Doll’s House,” “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s …

What can you say about a Broadway season in which revivals generated the most excitement and even new work had the ring of the familiar? The group of shows contending for musical revival is as strong as the best play category: “Into the Woods,” a spry version of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine frolic ; Lerner & Loewe’s “Camelot,” revised by …

LOADING ERROR LOADING Bonnie Milligan, a beloved fixture of New York’s cabaret circuit for years, is finally getting a chance to establish herself as a full-on theatrical powerhouse by way of Broadway’s “Kimberly Akimbo,” this season’s most unconventional new musical. To me, that says love.” “Kimberly Akimbo” marks Milligan’s first Broadway outing since her impressive debut in the 2018 Go-Go’s …

Broadway musical ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ creates upside-down world

NEW YORK — The seed for one of the best musicals on Broadway this season sprang from an off-hand comment. “I started imagining adults as children.” That imagining soon became an off-Broadway play in 2003 — “Kimberly Akimbo,” about a teen who ages four times faster than the average human. Her parents behave like children and she’s the wisest person …