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Victoria Clark and Jessica Stone met in 1996 when both were appearing on Broadway in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying – Clark had originated the revival’s role of Smitty and Stone replaced Megan Mullally as Rosemary. The friendship would prove both lasting and fruitful.
Twenty-seven years later, the two are nominated for Tony Awards, Clark for her starring performance as the title character in Kimberly Akimbo, and Stone for directing it. The musical, featuring music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, has been championed by critics and audiences since premiering Off Broadway two years ago, and its transfer to Broadway last October was no less the talk of New York theater.
The premise is as unlikely as it is captivating. Based on Lindsay-Abaire’s non-musical 2001 play of the same name, Kimberly Akimbo tells the story of, as the show’s official synopsis puts it, “a bright and funny Jersey teen who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging condition may be the least of her problems. Forced to maneuver family secrets, borderline personalities, and possible felony charges, Kim is determined to find happiness in a world where not even time is on her side.”
At 63, Clark is one of musical theater’s most lauded performers. She won a Tony in 2005 for her role in the musical The Light in the Piazza, and her Broadway credits alone include Titanic, Cabaret, Urinetown, Sisger Act, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Snow Geese and Gigi.
Stone is no stranger to Broadway either: As an actor, she has appeared in Anything Goes, Butley, The Odd Couple, The Smell of the Kill, Design for Living and Grease. She’s been directing for the stage since 2010, but Kimberly Akimbo
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Sharon Stone and Eva Longoria strike a pose at The Hollywood Reporter‘s Raising Our Voices Luncheon in Los Angeles, Calif. on Wednesday (May 31).
Ireland Baldwin is opening up about the realities of pregnancy for all the “soon to be moms” out there that need to hear it — like she did!
Klaris Law, a boutique media, entertainment, technology, and intellectual property firm based in New York, announced today that Nevin Law Group, a Broadway production law practice, will join its team. Nevin Law Group Founder Doug Nevin has been named partner and head of the newly-formed Theater and Live Events department at Klaris.
Gordon Cox Theater Editor The writers of “Kimberly Akimbo” tell a story about the musical’s creation that feels as if it could be a scene in the show itself. Like the Tony-nominated production, now up for eight awards including best musical, it’s a tale that lands right in the overlap of humor and heartache. In the summer of 2017, just before composer Jeanine Tesori and bookwriter-lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire were scheduled to spend two weeks developing the first act of “Kimberly Akimbo” at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Tesori had a cerebral hemorrhage. She was in the ICU for 11 days, the Tony-winning composer (“Fun Home”) recalled. She missed the entire first week of the show’s time at Sundance.
Gigi Hadid wore the Emi Jay Big Effing Clip in Virgo with a green Miu Miu dress at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.Sydney Sweeney wore low rise straight jeans from Cotton On while arriving to the Hotel Martinez in France. Taylor Swift wore a Ralph Lauren Collection Welington Shoulder Bag in New York City.
Piper Perabo, who plays Kevin Costner’s love interest in "Yellowstone," said she has no idea how the show will end, but if it were up to her, she would keep it going. "I have no idea what’s happening next, and the whole thing left off on this cliffhanger, so I'm waiting myself," Perabo told Entertainment Tonight in an interview released Tuesday. In the mid-season finale, her character Summer Higgins was on house arrest in Montana while a majority of the rest of the cast was headed for Texas. "I don't know if we start the next [episode] and they're coming back from Texas," she said.
star and her beau, Stone Burleson, said their «I dos» on Sunday. According to, the Netflix star and her longtime love tied the knot in front of 275 guests at The Olana, a sprawling mansion estate in Hickory Creek, Texas. For her big day, Simianer was escorted down the aisle by her grandfather as Christina Perry's «A Thousand Years» played.For the occasion, the former Navarro cheer team member wore a dress by the Bridal Boutique, and the new Mr.
Thom Yorke has shared a new collaboration with Clark – watch the video for ‘Medicine’, which also stars Yorke, below.‘Medicine’ appears on Clark’s recent album ‘Sus Dog’, which is his 10th studio album and was executive produced by the Radiohead frontman.In a statement, Clark said that ‘Medicine’ was written about “a perfect day in nature with my wife, but also chancers, dread of time, humans as animals, addiction, the inner judge, and how it’s always other people’s narcissism, right?”In a statement upon the announcement of the album, Yorke said he and Clark had initially connected when the latter “wrote me to say he’d started singing, looking for feedback/advice or whatever, cuz it was kind of new shark-infested waters for him [sic].”Watch the ‘Medicine’ video below.“I’ve been into what he does for years, and I ended up being a kind of backseat driver as he pieced all the oddness of it together, which was fascinating,” Yorke said of Clark. “I wasn’t surprised to discover he came at singing and words through another door completely, which to me was the most interesting and exciting part.”He added: “The first thing he sent me was him singing about being stuck between two floors and I was already sold.
She's been a favourite on the Coronation Street cobbles for 23 years and Samia Longchambon showed off a different look as she soaked up the sunshine. Samia, who plays Weatherfield councillor Maria Windass, sported a stylish pair of glasses as she posed outdoors alongside her husband Sylvain.
ITV star was wide-mouthed as he looked at the camera for the celebratory photo. Beside the photo, dad-of-one Dermot added the caption: "Thanks a million for all the lovely messages. Wild swim, brunch, walk, steak.
If you’re a Kelly Clarkson fan, you likely know that she is a huge Broadway fan!
WrapWomen’s “UnWrapped” Podcast. SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts| Spotify | Amazon Music | Google Podcasts | Omny Studio | StitcherShe continued, “She’s like mythical, someone I can’t believe even exists… but I kind of see her as my guiding light. And then who knows what will happen.
Trisha Paytas has created a fun and eclectic home for herself, her husband and their daughter — and now the YouTube star is welcoming ET inside for a grand tour.Paytas recently invited ET's Denny Directo for an exclusive look around her expectedly unique digs and showed how she set the tone for visitors right off the bat with what she calls her «bling tiger» — a stunning, sparkling, jewel-encrusted life-size tiger sculpture that stands proudly in her entryway.According to Paytas, the bold statement piece is more than just a fun bit of décor — it's also a way to celebrate her 8-month-old daughter, Malibu Barbie, whom she shares with husband Moses Hacmon.«Our daughter is the year of the tiger in Chinese zodiac,» Paytas shared. «So whatever our next baby will be, if it's a bunny or dragon, we're gonna get it bedazzled.»Paytas revealed that she and her husband «are trying» for a second baby, and they are hoping it will happen sometime soon.The Bling Tiger also has a special significance for Paytas, as she explained, «One of the first movies we watched together was Life of Pi, so the tiger has such symbolism.
Vogue Williams looked sensational when she arrived for the second day of The Podcast Show at London Islington's Business Design Centre this week alongside a raft of other famous faces. The model, 37, who shares Theodore, four, Gigi, two, and baby Otto with her husband, former Made In Chelsea star Spencer Matthews, looked glowy and bronzed when she rocked up to the event in a pair of leather shorts. The co-host of My Therapist Ghosted Me, which she releases weekly with her best friend comedian Joanne McNally, paired her stripped back look with a basic black T-shirt and some pointed toe leopard print flats.
Forget about Robin Williams’ Mr. Keating and his iconoclastic sway over his pupils in Dead Poets Society, Mia Wasikowska’s nutrition teacher Miss Novak in the Cannes competition title Club Zero takes inspiring students to a darker level.
My Name Is Earl's Ethan Suplee looked unrecognisable as he posed a before and after photo of his 21 stone weight loss and fitness journey to Instagram.The actor first shared a picture from from when he was at his heaviest weight during filming of the 2001 movie Blow, and compared the snap to one of him now where he is showing off his progress in the gym and his muscular physique.The star wrote a personal message in the caption as he said: “Once upon a time, the whole world was an impossibility. “Conquering all of it is still impossible, so I’m just concentrating on today. "If today becomes too much, I will focus on right now.
“Succession,” which earned him an Emmy Award nomination for guest actor in 2022. And he’s now nominated for his second Tony Award for playing one of theater’s most disdained patriarchs in “A Doll’s House” opposite Jessica Chastain. But in reality, he might just be one of the nicest, most humane and well-liked guys in entertainment today – and he’s got the seems-to-be-everywhere working actor’s resume to prove it.Starring in Amy Herzog’s revival of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” as Torval, the sexist husband who ultimately sends his wife, Nora, out the door, Moayed manages to make himself not exactly likable, but somehow more understandable. “The consciousness came less about how he would be perceived, and more about what [director] Jamie Lloyd and Amy Herzog wanted to do,” Moayed told TheWrap.
Dakota Johnson, Jodie Turner-Smith and Elizabeth Olsen were just a few of the stars to attend the Gucci 2024 Cruise fashion show at the Gyeongbokgung Palace on Tuesday (May 16) in Seoul, South Korea.
In the throes of Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s latest Rashomon-infused narrative Cannes competition film, Monsters, are two boys learning about their feelings for one another.