If you were to close Alicia Keys’ big semi-autobiographical musical on Broadway with any of her hit songs, which would it be? Of course, it has to be “Empire State of Mind.” Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy says that's a perfect analogy for the show, one as predictable as the R train being delayed with signal problems.
This image released by Polk & Co shows the artists during a performance of “Hell’s Kitchen” on Broadway. This image released by Polk & Co shows the poster of “Hell’s Kitchen” show on Broadway. This image released by Polk & Co shows the artists during a performance of “Hell’s Kitchen” on Broadway. This image released by Polk & Co shows the artists during a performance of “Hell’s Kitchen” on Broadway.
This is, appropriately, a woman-led show, with Maleah Joi Moon completely stunning in the lead role — a jaw-dropping vocalist who is funny, giggly, passionate and strident, a star turn. Shoshana Bean, who plays her single, spiky mom, makes her songs soar, while Kecia Lewis as a soulful piano teacher is the show’s astounding MVP.
Outside this apartment building in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood — we get a clue the time is the early 1990s — are “roaches and the rats/heroin in the cracks.” But no criminality is shown — at worst some illegal krumping? — and the cops don’t actually brutalize those citizens deemed undesirable. They sort of just shoo them away. This is a sanitized New York for the M&M store tourists, despite the lyrics in Keys’ songs.
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