David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s delightful musical marks its official opening in Times Square.
At the musical’s center is an entrancing performance by Victoria Clark that may have audiences inquiring after the show — which had its official Broadway opening Thursday night at the Booth Theatre — about adopting her. Okay, as she is 63, that would probably be frowned upon.
Lindsay-Abaire and Tesori situate “Kimberly Akimbo” in the northern New Jersey suburbs of Bergen County, where everything is supposed to hew toward middle-of-the-road serenity but is, in fact, a hotbed of dysfunction. “Akimbo,” with its connotation of haphazardness, could be the nickname that Buddy and Pattie give their home: For all intents, they and Debra are children and Kimberly the besieged adult, enduring their whining and trying to talk them out of their bad ideas.
Lindsay-Abaire’s book and lyrics and Tesori’s music take their cue from the Kimberly they dream up: Kimberly tries her darnedest not to feel sorry for herself, and the authors pay her the respect of not permitting us to sentimentalize her much, either.
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