Kimberly is nearly 16, but due to a rare genetic ageing disease, she looks as if she’s 70. With a dysfunctional family to  book, she decides to grab onto life and experience all that the world has to offer, while she still can. The Tony Award-winning musical features book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori. Mitchell Butel directs a terrific cast led by Marina Prior as Kimberly, with Casey Donovan as her aunt, Nathan O’Keefe as her father and Christie Whelan Browne as her mother. (Read our story from page 51.)

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The Australian premiere of a Tony Award-winning new musical and a great adventure.

The new girl in town is making heads spin. You’ve got to move fast when you’re 16 going on 70.

New Jersey, 1999: from a sea of teen angst, unrequited crushes and popularity contests bursts Kimberly, a musical heroine like no other. Equal parts teen comedy, heist caper and unlikely love story, her rollercoaster journey shows that the tempo of your own song is yours to set.

Born with a genetic rarity that means she ages at four times the rate of everyone else, Kimberly is a teen in mid-life form and living on borrowed time. She can cope with her dropkick dad and narcissistic mum – can’t spell ‘dysfunction’ without ‘fun’, right? But when her criminal aunt Debra shows up with a get-rich-quick scheme too good to be legal, Kimberly decides you’re only young once.