"Kimberly Akimbo is already the rare example of a good play that has become an even better musical . . . It embraces the ability of song, even in tragicomedy, to extend emotion into bigger realms . . . It is profoundly funny and heartbreaking . . . The season's most moving new musical." —Jesse Green, New York Times

"A fresh and gorgeous musical . . . Lindsay-Abaire and Tesori rearrange the pieces of Kimberly Akimbo (the play) carefully, and in doing so they find hidden, sideways beauty.” —Helen Shaw, New York Magazine

“Kimberly Akimbo is the sort of refreshingly unexpected musical that makes an exhilarating case for the vibrancy and potential of the form. It asks big questions about family and mortality. It’s unabashedly heartfelt and irresistibly funny. Like life, it’s inherently sad and a little absurd, and like its subject, Kimberly Akimbo is exceedingly rare and almost impossible not to love.” —Naveen Kumar, Variety

“A wondrous new musical . . . Breathtakingly lovely and often riotously funny . . .Blends the sweet, the sad, and the tartly offbeat in ideal dimensions.” —Charles Isherwood, Wall Street Journal

DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE is a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and librettist. His works for theater include Rabbit Hole, Good People, Shrek The Musical (Jeanine Tesori, composer), Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Wonder ofthe World, and A Devil Inside, among others.

JEANINE TESORI, the most honored female composer in Broadway history, has written works for theater, opera, and film. Her works include Fun Home (Tony Award for Best Score); Soft Power; Shrek The Musical; Caroline, or Change; Thoroughly Modern Millie; and Violet. She was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice for Fun Home and Soft Power.