Odd and quirky, musically smooth, emotionally resonant, wise, and a little raunchy (thanks to Aunt Debra), Kimberly Akimbo has racked up innumerable theater awards from the Tonys, Drama Desks, Off-Broadway Obies (Best Musical, Actress, Supporting Actress, Book, Score, Design). Now we know why.

If a very prescient A.I. process generated a contemporary hip musical, this would be it; although there’s nothing mechanical about the show. With its great beating heart at center stage (that would be 16-year-old Kimberly), a dysfunctional family straight out of a comic O’Neill drama, an outlaw aunt on the run, and teenagers spilling their angst and hormones across the stage, Kimberly shakes you up in the story’s comedy and pathos.

Kimberly, you see, suffers from a rare genetic disorder that ag

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