NEW YORK (AP) — The seed for one of the best musicals on Broadway this season sprang from an off-hand comment. Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire asked a friend about his newborn niece and was told she was like a wise old woman trapped in a baby's body.
“It’s about family. It’s about the time that you spend. It’s about the way that we get liberated by the structures of our family dysfunction,” says Tesori. “You laugh really hard, and that opens you up to be able to be moved.”
One thing they added that wasn’t in the original play was a quartet of teens — Lindsay-Abaire calls them “a chorus of geeks” — who are classmates of Kimberly. “We wanted to present a reflection of the teenager that she is and also the teenager that she can never be,” he says. Kimberly’s parents are Buddy, who drinks a lot and is prone to messing things up, and Pattie, who gets injured a lot. Then there’s her aunt Debra, a former convict scheming her next con. Lindsay-Abaire hopes he’s added more depth to them, especially the parents who married young.“I hope we’ve added some more humanity to the parents that maybe I brushed over in the play. They’re still monstrous in a lot of ways, but I feel like the musical parents are much more complicated and nuanced.
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