After a virtually two-year Broadway run that generated greater than $100 million in ticket gross sales, Alicia Keys’ Tony Award–winning musical Hell’s Kitchen is getting ready to take its present abroad.
Hell’s Kitchen will end its practically 800show run on the Shubert Theatre on Feb. 22, Deadline experiences. By closing evening, the present is projected to have recouped about 60% of its $22 million capitalization for buyers, with additional returns anticipated from touring and worldwide productions.
The present is at present on a multi-year nationwide tour and can roll out worldwide productions in South Korea, Germany, and Australia after leaving New York.
The musical debuted Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on Oct. 24, 2023—working via Jan. 14, 2024, with a five-week extension—earlier than shifting to Broadway, the place it surpassed $100 million in ticket gross sales.
Directed by Michael Greif, with choreography by Camille A. Brown, the manufacturing, created and impressed by Keys’ musical upbringing in New York City, featured a e-book by Kristoffer Diaz, and new music in addition to Keys’ biggest hits.
Alongside Ne-Yo, the current cast includes Amanda Reid, Kelsee Kimmel, Yolanda Adams, and Lamont Walker II. Original firm member and Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will return as Davis (now performed by Ne-Yo) beginning Jan. 27 and stay for the remainder of the run.
One of solely three new musicals from the 2023–2024 Broadway season nonetheless working—together with The Outsiders and The Great Gatsby—Hell’s Kitchen has maintained a stable, although uneven, field workplace presence since its April 20, 2024, opening. The present peaked at $1.8 million in gross for the week ending June 23, 2024. More just lately, for the week ending Jan. 11, it introduced in $828,189, filling 79% of the Shubert Theatre’s seats.
The musical discovered speedy Tony-winning success via its coming-of-age story of Ali, based mostly on Keys and initially portrayed by Maleah Joi, who earned a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical in her Broadway debut.
Kecia Lewis captured the present’s second Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Hell’s Kitchen earned a complete of 13 nominations, together with Best Musical.
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