Kimberly Akimbo at Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Kimberly Akimbo

Segerstrom Center for the Arts
600 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa

Kim, a bright and funny Jersey teen who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging disease may be the least of her problems. Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline personalities, and possible felony charges, Kim is determined to find happiness in a world where not even time is on her side.

Thru - Feb 2, 2025

Tuesdays: 7:30pm

Wednesdays: 7:30pm

Thursdays: 7:30pm

Fridays: 7:30pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 7:30pm

Sundays: 1:00pm & 6:30pm

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 714-556-2787

Running Time: 2hrs, 20mins

www.scfta.org

Kimberly Akimbo at Pantages Theatre in Hollywood

Kimberly Akimbo Reviews

Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

"...There's no accounting for when a show will speak to you, but this fleetly staged, sensationally acted touring production is first-rate all around. And Carmello miraculously makes Kimberly her own by inhabiting this teenage senior from the inside out."

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- Charles McNulty

Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...If you rearrange the letters of “progeria,” you can get “opera rig,” or “rigor ape,” or “prior age.” That last one is befitting. Progeria is an incredibly rare syndrome that causes people to age faster than normal. Though the turmoil of high school, a troubled home, and growing up in New Jersey would be traumatic enough for any teenager, Kimberly Levaco, the protagonist of Kimberly Akimbo, is afflicted with a similar “disease”, of which the average life expectancy is 16. And she is on the cusp of her 16th birthday."

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- Christopher Lloyd Bratten

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...It only took me only seconds to fall madly in love with Kimberly Akimbo at the Pantages. No wonder then that David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s tuneful, touching adaptation of the former’s outrageously funny, deeply moving play of the same name won five 2023 Tonys including the big one, Best Musical."

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- Steven Stanley

Ticket Holders LA - Highly Recommended

"...Beyond even the success of his timelessly spot-on Kimberly Akimbo, David Lindsay-Abaire has taken on the eternal subject of family in the body of his work and finds a way to meld his gloriously goofy humor with a kind of modernday Ibsen or Miller-esque exploration into the heart of what is subtly but systematically destroying our species. His greatest insight is always finding some random breeze of hope to filter into what seems to be a bleak future for our fugged-up society, one overpowered by so much media hype and skewed politics that we all tend to overlook what is most important in our lives: each other."

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- Travis Michael Holder

Broadway World - Highly Recommended

"...The show gets off to a rocky start. The opening number feels disconnected from the rest of the action, and it isn't until the dialogue begins in the first scene that the audience begins to settle in and enjoy ourselves. That said, you would be hard pressed to name a more solid, feel-good piece of musical theatre from the last decade."

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- Andrew Child

Kimberly Akimbo at Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo Reviews

Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

Ticket Holders LA - Highly Recommended

Broadway World - Highly Recommended

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