Ann Morrison Returns Home After National ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Tour

Sarasota performer Ann Morrison is back home after a national tour of “Kimberly Akimbo,” the Tony-winning musical about a teenage girl living with a rare condition that causes premature aging. Morrison, now 70, performed the role of a teenager — a theatrical reversal that speaks to the show’s unusual emotional and comic premise.

Her return is a reminder of Sarasota’s deep theater bench. The city is known for its stages, but its artists also move through national tours, regional theaters and Broadway-connected productions. Morrison’s career has long connected Sarasota audiences to the wider theater world, and this latest chapter adds to that reputation.

“Kimberly Akimbo” is not an easy musical to categorize. It is funny, sad, strange and tender, asking audiences to think about youth, time, family and identity in unexpected ways. Morrison’s role placed her in the center of that contradiction.

For Sarasota theater fans, her return is both a homecoming and a point of pride: one of the city’s own has been carrying a major national production.