Broadway favorite Carolee Carmello will lead Best Musical Tony winner Kimberly Akimbo on tour. As previously announced, the tour is set to launch from Colorado's Denver Center for the Performing Arts September 22. Further casting is to be announced.
Carmello is a three-time Tony nominee for her performances in Parade, Lestat, and Scanadlous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson. She was most recently on Broadway in Bad Cinderella and has also starred in 1776, Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Mamma Mia!, Sister Act, The Addams Family, and more.
The musical premiered Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company before moving to Broadway in 2022, ultimately winning Best Musical at the 2023 Tony Awards. Based on David Lindsay-Abaire's 2000 play of the same name, the work follows Kimberly Levaco, a New Jersey teenager with a rare disorder that causes her to age four times faster than normal. Lindsay-Abaire wrote the Tony-winning book from his earlier script, along with penning lyrics to Jeanine Tesori's music for the Tony-winning score.
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Jessica Stone, currently represented on Broadway with this season's Water for Elephants, was Tony-nominated for directing Kimberly Akimbo. Her creative team will reunite for the upcoming tour, including choreographer Danny Mefford, orchestrator John Clancy (with additional orchestrations by Macy Schmidt), music supervisor Chris Fenwick, scenic designer David Zinn, costume designer Sarah Laux, lighting designer Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, sound designer Kai Harada, projection designer Lucy MacKinnon, and wig, hair, and make-up designer J. Jared Janas. New for the tour will be music director Leigh Delano. The production is cast by The Telsey Office's Craig Burns. Shawn Pennington will be production stage manager.
David Stone, Atlantic Theater Company, James L. Nederlander, LaChanze, John Gore, Patrick Catullo, and Aaron Glick are producing.
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