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Review: Touching, quirky ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ winner of 2023 Tony for best musical, steals hearts
2 months, 3 weeks ago

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

LA Times  

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,” …

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Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike
1 year, 6 months ago

Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike

Associated Press  

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, …

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Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike
1 year, 6 months ago

Tony Awards telecast makes inclusive history and puts on quite a show despite Hollywood strike

The Hindu  

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 …

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Select list of winners at 2023 Tony Awards
1 year, 6 months ago

Select list of winners at 2023 Tony Awards

Associated Press  

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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Tony Awards 2023: Best dressed stars on red carpet
1 year, 6 months ago

Tony Awards 2023: Best dressed stars on red carpet

Daily Mail  

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 …

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The complete list of 2023 Tony Award winners
1 year, 6 months ago

The complete list of 2023 Tony Award winners

LA Times  

Ariana DeBose at The 76th Tony Awards, live from the United Palace in New York City’s Washington Heights. Despite fears of a possible cancellation, the show went on, with critical darling “Kimberly Akimbo” and top play “Leopoldstadt” leading with the night’s biggest awards. Also, in capturing the 2023 best play award for “Leopoldstadt,” his fifth award, Tom Stoppard breaks the …

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Tony Awards 2023 live updates: ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ win big
1 year, 6 months ago

Tony Awards 2023 live updates: ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ win big

LA Times  

The 2023 Tony Awards aired live Sunday, June 11, on CBS and Paramount+. “So to anyone who may have thought that last year was a bit unhinged, to them I say, darlings: buckle up.” Because of the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, there wasn’t an opening number by Lin-Manuel Miranda — or any pre-written witty banter by Ariana DeBose, …

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Ranking this year’s Tony best musical nominees from worst to best
1 year, 6 months ago

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

LA Times  

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 …

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Select list of nominees for 2023 Tony Awards
1 year, 8 months ago

Select list of nominees for 2023 Tony Awards

Associated Press  

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 …

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Commentary: The 2023 Tony Award nominations reflect a year of progress and backsliding on Broadway
1 year, 8 months ago

Commentary: The 2023 Tony Award nominations reflect a year of progress and backsliding on Broadway

LA Times  

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 …

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Broadway musical ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ creates upside-down world
2 years ago

Broadway musical ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ creates upside-down world

Associated Press  

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 …

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