‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Review: Alicia Keys Musical Brings a Vibrant Depiction of Teen Girlhood to Broadway

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Rylee Johnston If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Alicia Keys has entered her Broadway era, with the hit musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” which just earned 13 Tony nominations, including Best Musical. The Broadway musical is semi-autobiographical, drawing inspiration from Keys’ own life growing up as an aspiring artist in Hell’s Kitchen and the community she built up in the New York neighborhood.

Alicia Keys is speaking out after making Broadway history with her new musical Hell’s Kitchen.

Alicia Keys is a Tony Awards favorite. “Hell’s Kitchen,” featuring Keys’ music and loosely based on her teenage years, earned 13 nominations at the Tony Awards, including best musical and several nods for acting. Alicia Keys makes her dreams come true as ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ hits BroadwayAlicia Keys and Swizz Beatz host art exhibition in New YorkA post shared by Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys)Keys, who wrote the show’s score and arranged its music, shared in an interview that she lost her mind when she learned the show’s nominations.

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Tony Awards nominations. The two shows, one focused on a pre-celebrity pop titan coming into her talent and the other examining a darker, druggier side of the music industry, picked up a leading 13 nods. They were followed closely by “The Outsiders,” a musical adaptation of S.E.

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Lexi Carson Eight years after her last visit to Broadway, Tony Award winner Jessica Lange returns to the stage in “Mother Play,” a true story about a dysfunctional family with themes of love, loss, forgiveness and a “wicked” sense of humor. “I wanted to do a new play, something brand new. When I read it months ago, it just triggered the imagination.

Christian Lewis Sufjan Stevens’s indie folk concept album “Illinois”(2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings, Pullman cars, the World’s Fair of 1893, and the Lincoln/Douglas debates) with Biblical allusions and feelings of shame and loss. This multifaceted mix, often stirring and fascinating to listen to, is not an inherently logical choice for a narrative work of art — and yet, Justin Peck has devised, directed, and choreographed a 90-minute dance theater piece based on it, one that will indelibly be remembered as one of the most singular productions in recent Broadway history.

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Frank Rizzo When a character in the new musical “The Heart of Rock and Roll” tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: “Oh, my god. It’s cardboard!” But there can be real appeal to the humblest of materials — and the same can be said of this unpretentious, silly and, in the end, rather fun show. For all the familiar jukebox musical templates of thin characters, unsurprising plot developments and oldie pop/rock songs shoehorned into the narrative, there’s something to be said for simple packaging that knows what it is and does it well.

Alicia Keys is celebrating the opening night of her new Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen!

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Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) is pushing forward with Christmas Karma, a contemporary Bollywood musical set in London and inspired by Charles Dickens’ seminal A Christmas Carol, with Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory) signed on to lead an ensemble cast. 

“The Outsiders” at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.Described as “breathtakingly visceral” by the New York Post’s critic Johnny Oleksinksi, other reviewers have singled the scene out as “one of the most impactful moments of this, or any, Broadway season” and (the Washington Post), “a spectacular ballet of violence” (New York Magazine).And if you want to see the stunning sequence in the buzzy new coming-of-age musical about rival gangs from different socioeconomic backgrounds in Tulsa — adapted from S.E.