After practically two years, Hell’s Kitchen is ending its acclaimed run on Broadway. The Tony- and Grammy Award-winning manufacturing’s final efficiency at New York’s Shubert Theatre will probably be Feb. 22, marking practically 800 performances.
Unique solid member and Tony-nominated actor Brandon Victor Dixon will even reprise his position as Davis starting Jan. 27 by way of the musical’s last curtain name. Though the Broadway engagement is concluding, Hell’s Kitchen’s multi-year nationwide tour — which launched Oct. 10, 2025 — is ongoing with worldwide productions slated for South Korea, Germany and Australia.
Created and impressed by 17-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys, Hell’s Kitchen garnered greater than $100 million in ticket gross sales throughout its Broadway run. It additionally raised greater than $1.5 million for charity in affiliation with TodayTix Group.
“We set out on a mission with Hell’s Kitchen to inform numerous tales on Broadway,” Keys tells Billboard. “And to actively guarantee this sense that you simply belong right here. That this Broadway area is a spot for everyone. We actually had the intention of actively pursuing and creating the chance for numerous audiences to expertise this present; increasing the sorts of roles out there for Black and Brown actors and artists on Broadway. That’s been considered one of my favourite components: reshaping the cultural panorama by bringing extra individuals to the desk and making Broadway extra accessible.”
Produced by AKW Productions, Hell’s Kitchen made its world premiere on Oct. 24, 2023 at The Public Theater and ran by way of Jan. 14, 2024 earlier than graduating to Broadway on April 20, 2024. Along with that includes music and lyrics by Keys, the play boasts route by five-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif. Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony nominee Kristoffer Diaz wrote the e-book with music supervision by Emmy and Grammy winner Adam Blackstone and choreography by five-time Tony nominee Camille A. Brown.
The musical’s authentic solid starred Maleah Joi Moon as Ali, the rebellious teen woman on fireplace whose coming-of-age experiences and relationship together with her mom are the play’s central focus, Shoshana Bean, Kecia Lewis and the aforementioned Dixon. Each Lewis and Moon gained two of the play’s 13 Tony nominations in 2024 for finest actress in a featured position in a musical and finest actress in a number one position in a musical, respectively. Extra accolades embrace a 2025 Grammy for finest musical theater album.
The present solid options Amanda Reid, Kelsee Kimmel, four-time Grammy winner Yolanda Adams, three-time Grammy Award winner Ne-Yo and Lamont Walker II (additionally within the authentic solid). Along with Adams and Ne-Yo, Grammy-nominated singer Tank and Hamilton’s Christopher Jackson have appeared in restricted engagements. Hell’s Kitchen: Behind the Dream, a e-book chronicling the musical’s 13-year journey to Broadway complemented by behind-the-scenes commentary plus interviews with the artistic group and authentic solid, was launched by Keys this previous October.
Alicia Keys on stage at “Hell’s Kitchen” Broadway opening night time at Shubert Theatre on April 20, 2024 in New York Metropolis.
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As Hell’s Kitchen’s Broadway run winds down, Keys displays on fulfilling considered one of her lifelong goals — and why she guarantees, “That is solely the start.”
What different takeaways are you leaving with due to this expertise?
There’s no manner for me to only have one takeaway. It’s loopy. I’ve realized a lot and grown a lot. However the web takeaway is that there are really no limits; no containers besides those we put ourselves in. I’ve reached a brand new stage of pushing myself, studying there’s a lot newness at each alternative. Then there’s the collaboration and partnership of constructing a present like this, placing specialists of their fields collectively to create one thing that belongs to everybody.
And expertise, that’s one other factor. We discovered a number of the most gifted individuals together with younger individuals simply contemporary out of highschool or school. It’s actually inspiring to see how a lot natural, uncooked expertise there may be and that this present has continued to deliver individuals’s goals to life. We additionally based Kaleidoscope Desires, a nonprofit group impressed by the present, to extend entry to the humanities all through our communities and faculties.
Why was the musical capable of have such a powerful and profitable impression?
Whereas the story is so particular to those characters in New York Metropolis within the ’90s, that specificity makes it completely common. Everybody sees a chunk of themselves on this story. It’s about household, grit and resilience; about making errors and build up stronger. It’s additionally about hope, love, transformation and discovering your group — issues that we’re all on the lookout for. That’s what makes it so relatable and has additionally made it so profitable. Issues won’t ever fairly look the identical after this present as a result of it’s shifted the angle. That’s how change occurs.
Are you able to communicate on why the present is concluding its Broadway run?
The story is out on the earth; audiences are deeply connecting to it. I’ve to say thanks to Broadway, all of the followers and supporters of this present for giving me the chance to inform this story. And for it being essentially the most mega launching pad as that is solely the start. Due to it, we now have these unbelievable verticals as our subsequent part. We’ve got the U.S. tour, a Korean firm, an Australian firm and we’re creating a German firm. That is actually bringing New York throughout the nation and internationally. It’s all the time been a lifelong dream of mine to create a Broadway musical born from the dream of my mom. I can’t consider how huge all of it is. It’s rising and rising, doing precisely what is meant to do down the highway.
Do you envision a TV and/or movie model of the musical?
Man, there are such a lot of new alternatives and pathways. I can’t offer you all of my secrets and techniques. However there’s an entire world able to be constructed and skilled in every kind of recent mediums. I’m tremendous excited.
Is one other stage play in your future?
Sure, are you kidding me?! With every thing that I do know and have realized … simply wait to see what comes subsequent.
