Hell’s Kitchen
Opening Night: April 20, 2024
Theater: Shubert Theatre
Website: www.hellskitchen.com
Rebellious and stifled by an overprotective single mother, Ali is lost until she meets her mentor: a neighbor who opens her heart and mind to the power of the piano. Set to the rhythm of the 90s, Hell’s Kitchen is a love story between a mother and daughter. It’s about finding yourself, your purpose, and the community that lifts you.
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April 20, 2024
“Hell’s Kitchen” has earned its place on Broadway: The revised show is thrilling from beginning to end, and easily stands out as one of the rare must-sees in a crowded season.
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April 21, 2024
In the end, “Hell’s Kitchen” functions much like a teenage love affair: vibrant, tender yet ever so slightly cursory.
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April 20, 2024
“Hell’s Kitchen” is a sparkling story paying homage to New York, to that beautiful and heartbreaking transition between girlhood and womanhood and to the women who hold our hands through it all.
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April 20, 2024
There are elements of Hell’s Kitchen that are specific and well motivated and moving, and they’re obscured by the musical’s tilt toward bombast.
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April 20, 2024
Keys and Diaz can concoct any story they want, and what they’ve come up with resembles a publicist’s press release.
READ THE REVIEWApril 20, 2024
Perhaps the creators simply wanted to give Bean a show-stopping song—as well as something for her character to do besides pour water, chop vegetables, and serve dinner. But bursting into her ex’s audition at a nightclub and throwing all of her jewelry at the booker? And why is Bean closing her eyes and belting like she’s onstage at 54 Below?
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April 20, 2024
The spotlighting of small things amid the noise and chaos of one of the biggest, loudest, flashiest cities in the world is what makes Hell’s Kitchen such a delight.
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What is so remarkable about Hell’s Kitchen, however, is that a story so familiar can also somehow feel so fresh.
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April 20, 2024
The music of Alicia Keys is well suited to a jukebox musical: the burst of energy that flows from hits like “Girl on Fire” are dynamic blasts perfectly suited to a show clearly drawing from Keys’ own origin story…It’s just so vibrant in its zest and energy.
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With none of these themes emerging as the dominant one, what emerges instead is a reminder of Keys’ marvelous songwriting talent via her soulful, soaring R&B hits — and Moon’s ability to bring down the house with song after song after song.
READ THE REVIEWApril 20, 2024
The show has nonetheless arrived at the Shubert Theatre, with its excellent principal cast (lovingly directed by Michael Greif) and its buoyant book and score intact — and, for the most part, the transition feels seamless.
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April 20, 2024
Playwright Kristoffer Diaz, director Michael Greif and choreographer Camille A. Brown have found the right recipe for this show—and, in its vivid dancers and magnificent singers, just the right ingredients—and they’ve cooked up a heck of a block party.
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April 21, 2024
It’s a show that’s true to its city. And at the end, when the cast sings the lyric “concrete jungle where dreams are made of,” the crowd walks out into Times Square fully believing it.
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