Kimberly Akimbo at Orpheum Theatre

Origins

Kimberly is a Girl trapped in a 72-year-old elderly woman, and a teen trying to live every day as its the last. Following asking a friend about his newborn niece and, And getting the reply “Oh, she’s amazing—she’s like this little old woman trapped in a baby’s body”, David Lindsay-Abaire thought of "Kimberly Akimbo" for the first time.

Kimberly Akimbo is a musical that opened Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club New York City on February 4, 2003. Starred by Victoria Clark, and Directed by Jessica Stone, often celebrated for his potential for bonding humor and cruel reality.

Story

The tale begins in 1999 in suburban New Jersey, a girl called Kimberly struggling with a condition that made her age four and a half times than she actually is. Struggling with a terrifying reality to experience mortality and adolescence at the same time.

Unlike the rare clinical condition, she is facing, Kimberly is rarely seen taken care of in her life, in fact, you will see her compassionately consumed by her family’s recklessly, which places her in various emotional burdens including psychological strain, financial struggle, social isolation, and the need for belongingness. Highlighting her resilience, empathy, determination, courage, and managing to keep her high spirits.

Reviews

Widely recognized for triggering meaningful queries about mortality, identity, and family.

Kimberly has the power to pull out the social outcast in all of us, the misfit we were all at some time and the origin story of what we are today.

Offered to you by the breathtaking Orpheum Theatre on Thursday 13th February 2025, in Omaha, Kimberly is here with a good laugh, and a bag of life lessons. On Thursday 13th February 2025 at the stunning Orpheum Theatre grab your tickets today for this Thursday performance for just $45.