“Hell’s Kitchen,” a coming-of-age present impressed by the adolescent experiences of Alicia Keys and fueled by her music, gained a Grammy Award on Sunday for greatest musical theater album.
The album, produced by Keys together with Adam Blackstone and Tom Kitt, was launched in June and options the unique stars of the Broadway manufacturing, Maleah Joi Moon and Kecia Lewis, each of whom gained Tony Awards for his or her performances, in addition to Shoshana Bean and Brandon Victor Dixon.
Keys was already a 16-time Grammy winner, and on Sunday she was additionally being honored with the Dr. Dre International Affect Award introduced by the Black Music Collective. She is each the composer and lyricist for the songs on the “Hell’s Kitchen” album.
The present, which opened on Broadway final spring following an Off Broadway run on the Public Theater, remains to be working on the Shubert Theater and has been promoting effectively, though its grosses softened final month. A North American tour is scheduled to start at Playhouse Sq. in Cleveland in October.
“Hell’s Kitchen” tells the story of a 17-year-old lady, Ali, being raised by a single mom in an condo tower the place many of the items are sponsored for performing artists; Ali, whose life has shut parallels to that of Keys, is beginning to discover her approach romantically and musically.
This 12 months’s six Grammy-nominated solid albums have been all for musicals that opened on Broadway through the 2023-24 season.
The opposite nominees have been “Merrily We Roll Alongside,” a Tony-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 flop concerning the implosion of a three-way friendship; “The Pocket book,” primarily based on the much-loved 1996 Nicholas Sparks romance novel; “The Outsiders,” the Tony-winning musical primarily based on the traditional 1967 S.E. Hinton novel about two warring teams of adolescents in Tulsa, Okla.; “Suffs,” Shaina Taub’s exploration of the American girls’s suffrage motion; and “The Wiz,” a revival of the 1975 present primarily based on “The Fantastic Wizard of Oz.”
“The Outsiders” gained the Tony for greatest new musical, and “Merrily We Roll Alongside” gained for greatest musical revival. Solely “The Outsiders” and “Hell’s Kitchen” are nonetheless working on Broadway.