FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Aug 28, 2009

Auditions for Fall Theatre Production Set for Sept. 8

Lead role requires 60/70-year-old woman to play 16-year-old girl 

KEUKA PARK, N.Y.—Auditions for David Lindsay-Abaire’s Kimberly Akimbo, the fall theatre production at Keuka College, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 4 p.m. in the Red Barn Theatre on campus. 

Set in the suburban New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo is a play about a teenager with a rare condition that causes her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love. 

The New York Daily News called it “A wacky, touching and totally charming dark comedy that gives a whole new meaning to ‘coming of age story.’” 

The cast:

• Kimberly, a 16-year-old girl played by a woman in her 60s or 70s.
• Buddy (Kimberly’s dad), a man in his mid-30s.
• Pattie (Kimberly’s mom), a pregnant woman in her mid-30s.
• Jeff, an awkward, unpopular 16-year-old boy.
• Debra (Pattie’s sister and an ex-con), a woman in her early 30s.

 
The play, directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Wenderlich, will be staged Oct. 22-24 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Barn. 

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Office of Communications, Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York 14478

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