Theater Review: 'Kimberly Akimbo,' starring Victoria Clark, opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre in NYC. Kimberly Akimbo is now playing at New Yorks Booth Theatre. Youll have to actually remind yourself Im gone. Adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his acclaimed 2000 play (first seen here at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2003), the show featuring music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics by the playwright proves too quirky for its own good, suffering from jarring tonal and narrative shifts that dont do the problematic subject matter any favors. Jeff's Monologue from Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay Abaire - YouTube AboutPressCopyrightContact usCreatorsAdvertiseDevelopersTermsPrivacyPolicy & SafetyHow YouTube worksTest new features. When the show premiered Off Broadway last winter at Atlantic Theater Company, Jesse Green, the chief theater critic for The New York Times, called it a funny and moving new musical. Led by the producer David Stone (no relation to the director), the show sold out its run, and a Broadway transfer was quickly announced. (To Debra who passes from basement to exit house.) Her father is a hopeless alcoholic, her mother is hypochondriacal and pregnant with a second child whom she prays wont suffer from the same affliction, and her aunt is a homeless, recently released ex-con who enlists Kimberly and her high-school friends in a dangerous, illicit check forgery scheme. You would think that Kimberlys dramatic health issues would provide more than enough fodder for the evening, which makes it puzzling that Lindsay-Abaire felt the need to pile on so many contrived plot elements. . These are edited excerpts from the discussion. The Booth Theatre opened in 1913 and was named for Edwin Booth, the notorious brother of John Wilkes Booth. She aoe a her watch, She wer hooded park aud too. But they really responded to that deep friendship. Being a former good kid and, like Seth, an aficionado of the puzzleistic arts I began to see the character and the show in anagrammatic terms. But I feel messed up just enough to be the writer and be the person that I am. But theres also this sense, like, weve been through some [expletive]. Victoria Clark stars in a playful yet powerful musical about a girl who is aging too fast among adults who behave like children. Kimberly Akimbo is a play written in 2000 by David Lindsay-Abaire. Too often, though, Kimberly seems merely a peripheral figure in the overly farcical proceedings, which are admittedly very funny at times (theres a priceless sight gag involving Mulligan and a mailbox) but too often reduce the show to a sitcom level. a genetic aging disorder akin to progeria, as an anxious mother in The Light in the Piazza,, It will be one of the hottest tickets in town. . We long to get to know Kimberly better, especially since Clark delivers such a beautifully sung, poignant turn as the winsome teenage girl trapped in an elderly womans body. Kimberly Akimbo is an odd-duck dramedy with off-center charm and poignant underpinnings. Two hours and 30 minutes at the Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th Street. Anyone can read what you share. Boyer and Mauzey seem ill at ease with their unlikeable characters, and Milligan tears into the aunts vulgarity with such hilarious comic gusto she regularly brings down the house. So thats how I approached Debra. . This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. [5], Kimberly Akimbo premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club New York City Center Stage 1 on February 4, 2003 and closed on April 6, 2003. She suffers from an extremely rare disease that causes her to age more than four times faster than normal. But these are really minor complaints about a show that gets so many major things so right. In its quieter moments, Kimberly Akimbo displays a poignancy and tenderness that will seep into your heart. Buddy, meanwhile, is a foolish drunk who leaves his daughter, biologically a senior citizen, sitting on a bench in the snow for three hours. (He loves puzzles and word games; the shows title is a partial anagram.) Kimberly Akimbo is a coming of age story with a bittersweet twist. Tesori stood up, muttering, I have to close that door myself. Which prompted Stone to bend over in laughter. Steven Boyer, right, with Clark and Cooley. "Kimberly Akimbo," presented by Moxie Theatre at the Lyceum Space, Horton Plaza, 79 Broadway Circle, San Diego. Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Nina White, and Michael Iskander reprise their roles as Kims classmates. Here's how. David, what were the instincts that led you to write Kimberly Akimbo 20 years ago? What makes Kimberly not cloying, as adults pretending to be kids usually is, is that she is an old soul because of her hard life. But the hope is just to have a career. Its not about a disease at all, unless its the one we all have: We grow up too slowly and then suddenly too fast. General Manager: 321 Theatrical Management; Company Manager: Tyler Siems; Associate Gen. Mgr: Rachel Kaufman; Assistant Co. Mgr: Anna Wheeler Production Manager: Juniper Street Productions; Production Stage Manager: Arabella Powell; Stage Manager: Mario-Mars Wolfe; Assistant Stage Mgr: Kate Wellhofer It is on theme, Lindsay-Abaire said. Thats how it was when your Nana died. And I like how funny it is.. Those characters want to sing to me, their emotions are deep. Corey Regensburg, a recent graduate of the University of the Arts . And dont let its pure enjoyability mislead you into thinking its not a tragicomedy. Kimberly Akimbo has become one of the top acts in the 2023 Musical world, delighting fans with a one-of-a-kind show. Hovering midway between parody and homage, this modernist rendering of a justifiable classic proves neither illuminating nor much fun. Performances will now run on extension through January 15, 2022, instead of the previously announced January 2. The production starred Rosemary Prinz as Kimberly. Kimberly Akimbo runs 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one intermission. Stone, Tesori and Lindsay-Abaire gathered to discuss their process on the first day of previews. And yet her aging condition may be the. At a reading of the play in connection with the 2001 Kesselring Award ceremonies, Edie Falco, John Bedford Loyd and Jan Leslie Harding proved excellent collaborators for Burke and Gallagher. [Tesori pats Lindsay-Abaires arm, remarking, Wow.] I dont feel messed up by them. Yes, composer Jeanine Tesori and book-writer David Lindsay-Abaires musical at the Booth Theatre is a smidge too wacky for its own good. At the time, an audition seemed out of the question, given that shed returned to her native Ohio to tend to her father Bill, who had recently been diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. NINA WHITE (Teresa) is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in Kimberly Akimbo after originating her role off-Broadway. The actor, singer and and body diversity advocate is giving a star-making performance in "Kimberly Akimbo," an unconventional new musical. When I read the play, I saw love. Unlike adaptations that do little more than nail vocal Sheetrock onto bare studs of borrowed story, and have approximately the same elegance, this one with music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by Lindsay-Abaire remakes the original on new terms, with songs that beautifully tell us new things. Learn more about this heartfelt show about living life to the fullest. The off the wall parents and aunt who make up Kimberly's emotionally shipwrecked family are somewhat easier to replace. And these characters, they reminded me of people I grew up with, they reminded me of people in my family and not always people who are center stage, especially in a musical. Lindsay-Abaires lyrics are frequently very funny, if too often resorting to a broadness that sacrifices pathos for cheap laughs. Her mother, Pattie (Alli Mauzey), is ludicrously hypochondriacal, as if atoning for the chromosomal accident that produced her quick-aging child. Almost. Enter Kims Aunt Debra (Milligan), a street-smart grifter who, much like the Artful Dodger of Oliver Twist, recruits her niece into an illicit, moneymaking scheme that could help her and her classmates fulfill their dreams that is, if no one gets caught. Stu is a cocaine addict at the party, and he replaced the face powder in the bathroom with cocaine during the party, however, someone else uses it, causing some hilarity. The New Jersey setting is clearly and wickedly characterized but the era, supposedly 1999, is not; the fathers arc is not sharply inscribed; and the use of the high school students to fill out songs they dont otherwise belong in feels unmotivated. Good luck with that. In role after role particularly as an anxious mother in The Light in the Piazza, for which she won a Tony Award in 2005 she makes music not an afterthought to character, but the thought itself. Drama Desk Awards: The musical won Outstanding Musical and was nominated for eight additional awards for performance, writing, direction, and design. Jeanine, how did you write a catchy song about white collar crime? DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I was writing what I hoped would be a great part for an actress that I loved and adored: Marylouise Burke [who starred in the play Off Broadway in 2001]. David Lindsay-Abaire, Jeanine Tesori and Jessica Stone on the Kimberly Akimbo set. Choreographed by Danny Mefford. As she grieved the loss, Milligan was able to postpone her virtual tryout for Kimberly Akimbo. By the time she landed the part, however, theaters and other performance venues were shuttered indefinitely to curb the spread of COVID-19. While never rapturous, Akimbo is always enjoyable and ultimately touching. Shes not maliciously trying to hurt people, but she will because she needs to survive. It opens with a woman waiting on a bench, shivering from cold. And in the basement, Aunt Debra (Bonnie Milligan), a grifter with big attitude and little conscience, is concocting a check-forging scheme. Victoria Clark. TESORI Its part of being of a certain age, and what we have all experienced at this age. LINDSAY-ABAIRE Look, I love my family very much. The Kimberly Akimbo characters include various people in 1999 New Jersey. If you continue to use the site, your agreement will result in cookies being set. It began previews on Broadway on October 12, 2022 and opened on November 10 at the Booth Theatre.[9]. Critics have called it "The Best Musical of the Year - by far" (The Wall Street Journal); "Profoundly funny and heartbreaking; the season's most moving new musical" (The New York Times); and "A howlingly funny heartbreaker of a show" (The New Yorker). Before you step back into the '90s with Kimberly and the gang, learn more about the show's cast, history, and production information. The Kimberly Akimbo musical had its world premiere off Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company in 2021, 20 years after the Kimberly Akimbo play premiered. [My sons] think its hilarious. Alexander Reeves, Jeff Monologue (Kimberly Akimbo) - YouTube From: Kimberly AkimboBy: David Lindsay-Abaire From: Kimberly AkimboBy: David Lindsay-Abaire AboutPressCopyrightContact. On top of having to face down mortality way too soon, Kim is dealing with a dad who drinks too much booze; a neurotic, pregnant mom whos harboring a deep family secret; and a con-artist aunt. I said to Jeanine, he said, trying to keep a straight face as another toilet flushed, I wish we could write a musical the way that I write a play, where theres not a team of other people involved.. All I ever wanted to be in life was the star of that show. You should be happy. The two previously took on the same creative roles on Shrek the Musical, which began performances on Broadway in 2008. Kimberly Akimbo takes place in 1999 in suburban New Jersey, where the title character is a 16-year-old high school student who looks like she's 72 because of a rare condition that's accelerated her aging. The dark absurdist . The 16-year-old title character in the fascinating new Broadway musical "Kimberly Akimbo" is forced to deal with juvenile parents, a crazy aunt a body aging four times as fast as normal kids. I watch him being elevated by the discipline and skill, and her surgical approach to figuring out Kim and mapping out Kims world and behavior. He was previously the editor of Stages Magazine, the chief theater critic for the Christian Science Monitor, and a theater critic and culture writer for the New York Post. And our friends have been through some [expletive], and weve lost people. . . Directed by David Petrarca, the cast starred Marylouise Burke as Kimberly. Their classmates may have chosen scurvy and fasciolosis, but what they really suffer from is a bad case of adolescence, she sings. Im sorry I forgot, honey. My crablike love!) form a kind of descant to her rapturous discovery of his askew point of view: I like the way you look at life and think outside the box, she sings. That Tesori can write any kind of music is old news. Her aunt Debra is a serial scammer who pulls Kim and her classmates into her schemes. (The finale of Kimberly Akimbo, a ukulele tune inevitably called Great Adventure, is a killer, so jaunty you cry.) Quick View. Your culture and entertainment cheat-sheet. You get so used to someone being there, it takes your body a long time to adjust. The show works best when its at its simplest, such as the touching song Make a Wish, in which Kimberly tries to decide what exactly shell ask of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, or the character-defining ballads that Kimberlys parents sing to their unborn child. Youll miss me, too. $25. We are gone (but lets hope the show isnt) before we know it. Kimberly is played by Lindsay-Abaire's unlikely but adorable muse, Marylouise Burke, 62, whose face does indeed look surprisingly girlish, despite the natural signs of age, when placed underneath. The most recent musical to run at the theatre was the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, which opened in 2009; the improv hip-hop show freestyle love supreme also played there in 2021. Directed by Jessica Stone. Victoria Clark and Justin Cooley in 'Kimberly Akimbo.' (Photo: Ahron R. Foster) "Kimberly Akimbo" will transfer to Broadway this fall. By turns, it can be profoundly funny or deeply moving. But at the same time, at the end of the Atlantic run, a grumpy old man was walking up the aisle and he looked at me and I thought hes going to criticize the piece. Outer Critics Circle Awards: In addition to Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical, 2001 world premiere (play): South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California hosted the world premiere of the acclaimed. And he said, I just want you to know that Im going to go out and live life more fully tomorrow. My eyes welled up and then he was gone into the night. Victoria Clark, left, as Kimberly and Justin Cooley as Seth in David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesoris musical Kimberly Akimbo at the Booth Theater in Manhattan. And I also got the chance to put all of my high school friends up onstage. One thing Aunt Debra in Kimberly Akimbo shares with Milligans characters in Head Over Heels and other shows is an unapologetic sense of self. LINDSAY-ABAIRE During Shrek, I said to Jeanine, I would love to write a musical the way that I write a play, where it would just be us figuring it out for as long as we needed to figure it out. And then Jeanine said, Well, how about one of your plays? Remember when Mr. Hicks dropped dead, Debra? STONE: It actually is thrilling because you have two people on opposite ends of the spectrum. I understand much more acutely the fear of losing a child. The seasons most moving new musical earns its place among the behemoths of Broadway. The upside is that it draws her to the ber-nerd, Seth, played in a terrific New York debut by the 18-year-old Justin Cooley. Thats upbeat Kimberly, as usual trying to make the best of lifes bad situation. .more Get A Copy Amazon Stores Libraries Paperback, 120 pages What has it gotten me?) In another, a duet with Kimberly, he cranks out possible anagrams of her name in real time. Victoria Clark as Kimberly, who appears to be in her 60s though. Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes. The musical . Which is not to say she or it is a downer. By turns, it can be profoundly funny or deeply moving. Born with a fatal aging disorder akin to progeria, Kimberly Levaco (Victoria Clark) is a 15-year-old girl whose body resembles that of a woman well into her 70s. The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time during the 2022-2023 Broadway season on January 31 to discuss eligibility of 20 productions for the 76th Annual Tony Awards in They include Tony Award winner Victoria Clark as Kimberly, Justin Cooley as Seth, Steven Boyer as Buddy, Alli Mauzey as Pattie, and Bonnie Milligan as Debra. By Charles Isherwood. In its quieter moments, Kimberly Akimbo displays a poignancy and tenderness that will seep into your heart. There is nothing in quotation marks about her teenage mannerisms, or embarrassing about seeing her, at 63, wear the spot-on embroidered jumpers and colorful hair clips Sarah Laux has costumed her in. Kimberly writes to the Make-A-Wish Foundation sweetly asking for a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz and a chartered yacht vacation for 50 friends who dont exist, when all she really wants is for her deadbeat parents to make dinner for once and be nice to her. Whats apparent in Kimberly Akimbo is that she can also write inerrantly for any kind of show. So naturally Kimberly Akimbo is a musical comedy. Kim boldly decides to live every day like its her last. Seize the day! So the two of them give each other really beautiful gifts. I think Kimberly Akimbo could be a musical. Body diversity isnt something that weve always talked about, but I think [Broadway producers] are realizing the importance of audiences seeing themselves on the stage in a pleasant light as opposed to someone who is seen as unattractive. Kimberly Akimbo Review: Whats an Anagram for Wonderful? [3] Lindsay-Abaire received the Kesselring Prize in November 2001 for this production. The play didnt have monologues for Kimberly, but it did have monologues for her parents. So the fact that shes in his orbit, this beautiful, innocent, youthful presence also washes over her. She moves to Bergen County, New Jersey, with her parents, Buddy (Steven Boyer) and Pattie (Alli Mauzey), who. Ive written often about Tesoris chameleonic brilliance, the way in shows as distinctive as Fun Home, Caroline, or Change and Shrek she seems to have at her disposal an infinite thesaurus of musical styles so that each setting is as expressive as possible. Progeria affects about 1 in 20 million people around the world, according to reports. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission at no additional cost to you. That adds a little bit to the glaze of authenticity, and a little understanding of the behavior, needs and pitfalls. Recognizing that trait in each other, Seth and Kimberly bond over their parallel irregularities: his obsession with anagrams and her genetically scrambled codons. What's akimbo? A old woman sit sie 'ring. Was creating the musical a way to create more interiority for her? Smallish, thoughtful, more narrowcast new musicals lets call them nerdicals are rarer: one per season, if were lucky. Photo credit: Kimberly Akimbo (Photos by Joan Marcus). Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline. . Those four kids in the show choir were not in the play. Victoria Clark, center, as Kimberly with Alli Mauzey, foreground left, and Steven Boyer, foreground right, who play her parents. Debbie-downer Pattie injured both her hands while filling desserts at the Sunshine Cupcake Factory and wears two sight-gag casts. (New York, NY, February 25, 2022) - The critically-lauded and wildly popular new musical, Kimberly Akimbo, will transfer to Broadway this fall, beginning previews on October 12th and officially opening on November 10th at a Shubert Theater to be announced. . To see an old hand like Clark make sparks with a newcomer like Cooley is to feel how quickly the world spins forward. The new musical, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, will start previews on Oct. 12, ahead of a Nov. 10 opening. TAGS Actors +. Anyways, he gets so desperate he snorts some of the bath salts in the bathroom. The show tells the story of a lonely teenage girl, Kimberly Levaco, who suffers from a condition similar to progeria that causes her to age rapidly, thereby giving her the appearance of an elderly woman, and how, according to . They were really intrigued by the relationship between Kim and Seth, not because its a traditional love story. As long as were picking at excellence, Ill add that Kimberly Akimbo isnt yet all it might be. KIMBERLY AKIMBO is at once a shrewd satire, a black comedy and a heartbreaking study of how time wounds everyone." NY Times. www.ovationtix.com. Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline. For the complete performance schedule and show times, please visit the Kimberly Akimbo page. Im older than these two. and her teenaged daughter, Kimberly, who has a disease that causes premature aging. $101.50$131.50. She meets another misfit (a teenage boy) and the two form an attachment to one another that borders on attraction, but their situation is not helped by Kimberly's rapidly deteriorating health. As experienced artists, how do you keep that youthful tone intact? Still, as this allows them to provide backup for Milligans barn-burning numbers, I wont complain. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Quick View. Kimberly: An outcast 16-year-old grappling with an aging disease that makes her look like shes in her 70s. At the center of David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo is Kimberly Levaco, a 16-year-old girl whose body thinks she's 72. 2021 Off-Broadway premiere (musical): The, 2022 Broadway premiere (musical): Clark and the entire Off-Broadway cast of the, Kimberly's last name isn't Akimbo; it's Levaco. Her father, Buddy (Steven Boyer), is floridly irresponsible, reneging on promises and drinking himself into stupors. Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander, Nina White. Thats how its gonna be when Im gone. Because Im so invested in the parent side of the story, and in the mortality side of the story, and in the how-do-you-choose-to-live-your-remaining-days-on-this-planet side of the story, I forget about the delight, the tremendous luxury of hope and time, that teens have. TESORI Thats what makes you a storyteller. She was reeling from the premature closing of Head Over Heels when she first learned of Kimberly Akimbo, ahead of its premiere staging off-Broadway, in early 2020. Disclaimer: Some of the articles on Mighty Actor include affiliate links to sites like Amazon, Skillshare, and others. Far from it: Though an underground river of sorrow gives Kimberly Akimbo its keenness, the surface is shiny comedy. Thanks for contacting us. Pattie is convinced shes going to die soon, and is here breaking the news to her sister, Debra. February 25, 2022. The songs in the Kimberly Akimbo musical are by David Lindsay-Abaire, who wrote the lyrics, and Jeanine Tesori, who wrote the music. Kim is a bright and funny Jersey teen, who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. We're very sorry, but we had a problem canceling your order. Pattie: Kims mom, a pregnant hypochondriac who tends to overlook her daughter. Do you imagine this as the kind of show that parents can take their teens to? Its exhilarating.. Schedule varies. Knowing she will not live much. Cleverly akimbo. If you can have a gaggle of teenagers skipping out of the show, and then this grumpy old man with tears in his eyes thats victory. We could crack open Kimberlys heart, and let her express all of those feelings and emotions and fears and desires and longings, that are only subtext in the play. So at almost 16 (her birthday is coming up) she looks like a lady in her early 70's. Kim wants to act like a regular teenager and for her parents to behave like responsible adults. Nor, though Stones work with the actors was exceptional, did the physical production (scenic design by David Zinn, lighting design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew) impress me much. (My Blacker Olive!) Even the parents are given chances to redeem themselves in song. Don't miss a beat. (One number is called The Inevitable Turn.) Its sound world including ukulele tunes, surprise double-melodies and genial pastiche most resembles that of the stage musical Shrek, another collaboration with Lindsay-Abaire, but it takes its own inevitable turn, becoming richer and more yearning as the material demands. Victoria Clark is one of our great singing actors. (Possibly this one: sublime cast = best musical.) This musical adaptation of the same-named David Lindsay-Abaire play, with music by Jeanine Tesori, premiered off Broadway in 2021 and has made the move to Broadway. That the musical in essence does the same for the rest of the characters is one of its most unusual qualities. And seldom does that happen with a musical.. Ive been able to be a fully formed artist, more than just somebody coming on for a quick fat or food joke, and completely bring myself in two shows, she explained. This is a typical Broadway musical length, though musicals can run anywhere from 90 minutes to 3 hours. The theatre is located at 222 W 45nd St. between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly-Akimbo focuses, with uncanny depth and quirky wit, on a sixteen-year-old girl suffering from a disease that causes her body to age nearly five times faster than it should. I had to hope and pray that it would come back, she recalled, because something about this material felt like it was mine.. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her . Victoria Clark plays a teenager afflicted with an illness that makes her grow old prematurely in the new musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori. They come across as being the same age. Seth: A high school geek who's into anagrams and playing the tuba. What is surprising is that Kimberly Akimbo, based on the 2000 play of the same name by David Lindsay-Abaire, manages a similar feat. This website uses cookies. Knowing she will not live much beyond 16, she wants to experience everything she imagines the world has to offer road trips, a robot butler, puppy love while she can. But Milligans road back to Broadway was marked with setbacks that could have discouraged a less tenacious artist. And that, to me, is David and Jeanine, and their work and their sensibility, said Stone, 52, who has been attached to the musical since 2019. But Kimberly finds a friend in a nerdy fellow sophomore student who loves word games, especially anagrams, and has a unique way of looking at life and at her. Some of the most enjoyable moments in Theatre Horizon's very entertaining production of KIMBERLY AKIMBO are those involving the character, Jeff, a somewhat nerdy outcast at school who strikes up an ambivalent relationship with Kimberly during the completion of a class project. It causes children to age rapidly, starting in their first two years of life. In a household filled with impulsive, appetitive childishness, Kimberly, who has to feed Pattie her morning cereal because both her arms are in casts, is the adult by default. [8] It was critically acclaimed, and won Best Musical prizes at the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Get Kimberly Akimbo tickets now on New York Theatre Guide. MONOLOGUE BANK From: The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry EDNA: The hills are alive with the sound of music was the first best movie I ever saw and the first best music I ever heard. Something different has happened to David Lindsay-Abaire's play "Kimberly Akimbo" on its way to becoming a new musical, which opened Wednesday at the Atlantic Theater Company. Mature inside and outside, Kimberly is de facto caregiver for her dysfunctional New Jersey clan. The focus and intimacy of that partnership, he said, made the musical the easiest thing Ive ever written., He compares writing a musical to working on a puzzle. But I also wanted to explore mortality and what it means to truly live in the moment. On paper, Aunt Debra is a criminal. Almost yours: 2 weeks, on. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Composer Jeanine Tesori and book-writer David Lindsay-Abaires musical at the Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th.... 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