Each night after her show, musical theater hopefuls greet Bonnie Milligan at the Booth Theater stage door, eager to learn how she did it. “What’s your advice?” they ask. “And
When Bonnie Milligan was nominated for a Tony Award, she asked her good friend Matt Doyle what she should expect.
People are also reading… In “Kimberly Akimbo,” alone, there are three different routes to that Tony nomination. Star Victoria Clark already won a Tony for “Light in the Piazza.” Co-star Justin Cooley just graduated high school and is a nominee for his first show. And, then, there’s Bonnie – “belting Bonnie,” as she’s known on social media.
In 2020, composer Jeanine Tesori and playwright David Lindsay-Abaire turned a play he had written into a musical. Called “Kimberly Akimbo,” it focused on a teenage girl who suffers from a disease that causes her to age rapidly, giving her the look of an elderly woman. Key to the story: an aunt named Debra who shows her the love she isn’t getting from her parents.
Milligan talked with Tesori about the character and the two decided to play with Debra’s songs. One – called “Better” – changed after Tesori heard Milligan’s interpretation. The second act opener, “How to Wash a Check,” “was a very different song…and Jeanine said, ‘Can I write on you?’ It was my dream come true. It became a very collaborative experience with songs.”
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