An Iowa-born actress, writer, teacher and director with more than five decades of stage experience is starring in the title role of a touring Broadway production that will make a one-week stop in Iowa next week.
Sioux City native Ann Morrison, who’s 70, is very up-front about her age and says it’s a thrill to play the lead in “Kimberly Akimbo,” which won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
“The show is about a 15-year-old turning 16 during the course of the play, who has a rare genetic disease that causes her to age four or five years every year. So even though she’s turning 16, she’s actually in the body of a 70-year-old. And that would be me,” Morrison says, laughing. “I am, by spirit, a 16-year-old in a 70-year-old body, so I usually just jokingly say, I just have to show up.”…