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THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR DEC. 12 - 18
It's certainly not unusual for a Broadway musical to have a play as its source material.
Becca Webb Photo Kimberly Akimbo It's certainly not unusual for a Broadway musical to have a play as its source material. It is, however, a bit less common for a playwright to look at his own previous narrative play, and see the seed for a musical interpretation.
That's what happened after David Lindsay-Abaire worked with composer Jeanine Tesori on the Broadway musical version of Shrek , and subsequently considered a return collaboration based on Lindsay-Abaire's own 2000 play Kimberly Akimbo , about a 16-year-old girl with a progeria-like genetic disorder that causes her to age faster than…
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