by Jeroslyn JoVonn
January 16, 2026
The musical acquired a complete of 13 Tony nominations.
After a virtually two-year Broadway run that generated greater than $100 million in ticket gross sales, Alicia Keys’ Tony Award–profitable musical Hell’s Kitchen is getting ready to take its present abroad.
Hell’s Kitchen will finish its practically 800show run on the Shubert Theatre on Feb. 22, Deadline reviews. By closing night time, the present is projected to have recouped about 60% of its $22 million capitalization for traders, with additional returns anticipated from touring and worldwide productions.
The present is presently 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 by means of Jan. 14, 2024, with a five-week extension—earlier than transferring 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 Metropolis, featured a e book by Kristoffer Diaz, and new music in addition to Keys’ biggest hits.
Alongside Ne-Yo, the present forged consists of Amanda Reid, Kelsee Kimmel, Yolanda Adams, and Lamont Walker II. Unique 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 among solely three new musicals from the 2023–2024 Broadway season nonetheless working—together with The Outsiders and The Nice Gatsby—Hell’s Kitchen has maintained a strong, 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. Extra lately, for the week ending Jan. 11, it introduced in $828,189, filling 79% of the Shubert Theatre’s seats.
The musical discovered fast Tony-winning success by means of its coming-of-age story of Ali, primarily based on Keys and initially portrayed by Maleah Joi, who earned a Tony Award for Finest Main Actress in a Musical in her Broadway debut.
Kecia Lewis captured the present’s second Tony for Finest Featured Actress in a Musical. Hell’s Kitchen earned a complete of 13 nominations, together with Finest Musical.
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