Kimberly Akimbo

Not your typical musical, Kimberley Akimbo is at once an exhilarating, heartbreaking and life-affirming piece with a fast-aging teenager at its heart. Adapted from the 2000 play by David Lindsay-Abaire, this is a musical about growing up, growing old and grabbing life by the proverbial!

Starring stage icons Marina Prior, Casey Donovan, Christie Whelan Browne and Nathan O’Keefe along with local newcomers, this new musical transcends generations with laughter, love and a poignant reminder of life’s fleeting moments.

Take a trip back to New Jersey, 1999 where our musical heroine like no other, Kimberley Levaco (Marina Prior), bursts onto stage and into a sea of teen angst, unrequited crushes and popularity contests. Equal parts teen comedy, heist caper and unlikely love story, her rollercoaster journey shows that the tempo of your song is yours to set.

Born with a genetic rarity that means she ages at four times the rate of everyone else, Kimberly is a teen in mid-life form and living on borrowed time. She can cope with her dropkick dad (Nathan O’Keefe) and narcissistic mum (Christie Whelan Browne) – you can’t spell ‘dysfunction’ without ‘fun’, right? But when her criminal aunt Debra (Casey Donovan) shows up with a get-rich-quick scheme too good to be legal, Kimberly decides you’re only young once.

Packed with great songs, anagrams, heart, and maybe a couple of felonies along the way, Kimberly Akimbo is a theatre experience unlike any other!