HELL’S KITCHEN Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/14/24 at 9:14am

Releases June 7! Music and lyrics by Alicia Keys

[InTheBathroom1]

Posted: 5/14/24 at 9:55am

This will be interesting to hear.  The best part of the show is the live vocal performances so I hope they don’t lose that on the cast album.  I feel like a lot of cast recordings recently have been overly sanitized/produced to make everything sound “perfect” and as a result, they lose any sense of personality.

Either way, can’t wait to have a recording of the couple of new songs from the show.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/20/24 at 8:24pm

Four singles and a music video for “No One” will drop on May 31.

[bryan32]

Posted: 5/20/24 at 10:16pm

is it for the cd or just for the download 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/31/24 at 12:16am

Digital release pushed back a day, to June 8.

 

Kecia Lewis (Miss Liza Jane) and Maleah Joi Moon (Ali) performing "Authors of Forever":

 

Brandon Victor Dixon (Davis) and Shoshana Bean (Jersey) performing "Fallin'":

 

 

Bean and Moon performing "No One":

 

 

Updated On: 5/31/24 at 12:16 AM

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/31/24 at 12:21am

Track listing:

• ACT I
• 1. The Elevator Prologue
• 2. The Gospel
• 3. The River
• 4. Seventeen
• 5. You Don't Know My Name
• 6. Miss Liza Jane Plays Piano for the First Time
• 7. Kaleidoscope (Ali's Version)
• 8. Gramercy Park
• 9. Not Even the King
• 10. Teenage Love Affair
• 11. Not Even the King (Reprise)
• 12. Unthinkable (I'm Ready)
• 13. You Play These Notes
• 14. Girl on Fire
• 15. Perfect Way to Die

 

• ACT II
• 16. Heartburn
• 17. Love Looks Better
• 18. Work On It
• 19. Price, Bonds, and Scott
• 20. Authors of Forever
• 21. Fallin'
• 22. If I Ain't Got You
• 23. Pawn It All
• 24. Like You'll Never See Me Again
• 25. When It's All Over
• 26. Hallelujah / Like Water
• 27. No One
• 28. All We Can Do is Play
• 29. Empire State of Mind
• 30. Kaleidoscope (ft. Alicia Keys) (Bonus Track)

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/31/24 at 1:37am

Get four tracks now: Authors of Forever, Fallin’, No One, and Kaleidoscope. https://music.apple.com/us/album/hells-kitchen-original-broadway-cast-recording/1748976731

[RW3]

Posted: 6/6/24 at 5:59pm

Alicia Keys posted to her IG story that the cast album comes out tonight at midnight. iTunes still says the 8th but I am going to assume that Alicia is correct. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 6/7/24 at 12:01am

Spot-on, RW3, the full album is now out! Happy listening, everybody.

[MusicalsLive]

Posted: 6/7/24 at 4:15am

I love the album, crystal clear voices, good sound, the only thing I don't like are the talking/acting parts before some songs. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 6/7/24 at 11:42am

I’ll say it once again: Tom Kitt is the jukebox musical whisperer. How he manages to reimagine beloved pop catalogs for the theatre is sublime. He does hit a rare roadblock here with “Fallin’,” but the rest of his orchestrations (which he did with frequent Keys collaborator Adam Blackstone) shine so bright that I didn’t mind. 

This cast’s vocal pyrotechnics are off the charts. Maleah Joi Moon may very well be the female version of Myles Frost’s MJ two years later — the breathy yet beautiful tone that floats on air. Johnny Oleksinski once said that Brandon Victor Dixon’s voice could possibly melt Antarctica, and listening to “Not Even the King” I felt the same way. Shoshana Bean stops the show with “Pawn It All”… and then there’s Kecia Lewis, who owns every second she gets as the aging piano teacher. Can only imagine how powerful she is live. And I have to shout out Chris Lee (a wild Lafayette when Hamilton first opened in Chicago), who makes Knuck a model of restraint and sings a dreamy “Unthinkable” with Moon’s Ali. 

As for the few new songs Keys wrote for the production? They’re all brilliant, to say the least. “The River” is my favorite of the lot, while “Kaleidoscope” sounds like a soulful response to Des’ree’s “You Gotta Be.” If the early ads hadn’t done so already, I now have the “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah” vamp from “The Gospel” stuck in my head. 

They’ve cooked up something special, folks — and a few Tony wins next week might prove it. 

 

 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 6/7/24 at 3:40pm

A couple other notes:

I love the rap interpolations of the original Jay-Z version late in the final moments of “Empire State of Mind.” 

The stray criticism in “Girl on Fire” is a clever touch that brings to mind the funny “it’s not ironic” discourse in Kitt’s Jagged Little Pill. “The whole world is hers ‘cause she got a man now?”

Besides this, I can’t say I was a big fan of the samplings of Kristoffer Diaz’s book heard here. 

[RW3]

Posted: 6/7/24 at 4:00pm

For me, the standout tracks are:

• The River
• Unthinkable (I'm Ready)
• Girl on Fire (Surprised me in the best way)
• Perfect Way to Die
• Heartburn
• Love Looks Better
• If I Ain't Got You
• Pawn it All
• Hallelujah/Like Water

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 6/7/24 at 6:09pm

A two-disc CD and double-LP vinyl release is set for August 30.