December 26, 2024 • 14 mins
In 2024 we had so many amazing people stop by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. Here's one of our favorites!
The iconic Alicia Keys stops by the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge to talk about her new musical, Hells Kitchen!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Here we go. Alicia Keys is here. Yeah, we're so
excited to have you. We're excited to have you anywhere,
especially here. Thank you Hell's Kitchen. This new musical. Alisia
Keys has been working on this for you said, thirteen.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Years, thirteen joints. You know, that's how you look at
it as Jointsandy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Smoke, thirteen joints before the show I'm working.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Well, you should because the show opens on four to twenty,
so it's kind of perfect.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Explain this to me. Previews start March twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Correct, So previews do start March twenty eight. Y'all can
come see that as well. And what happens is there's
three weeks, about three and a half weeks of previews
that allow us to test everything with an audience, and
then you make changes during that time, and then when.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You stop the show, like in the middle, if you
go to a preview, can somebody stop and say we
got to reset that?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah? Is that what happens?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You wouldn't do that, would you?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
No? You cannot do that, okaye. It runs like a show,
and you're going to experience the show and it's gonna
be amazing. But after the show there's a bunch of notes,
and then the notes get implemented, and then for twenty
you can't touch it anymore. And that's the official opening.
You can touch the creative anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So walls during previews, you may be in the back
just kind of hiding. I'm there a lot, and then
when it comes to notes time, here's Alicia, girl, you
were off key.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
There's a bunch of notes on multiple levels. For sure.
There's gonna be some musical notes. There's gonna be some
dialogue notes. You know, there's gonna be choreography notes. There's
gonna be stylin notes, wardrobe notes, lightning notes, set design notes,
all of these things that kind of come together and
you're like, this doesn't feel quite right. Can we fix this?
I'm noticing that's not happening, and it happens from everyone.
The director Michael Greif, who also did Rent and Dear Evan.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hand never heard of those, right, Oh God, couldn't you
get someone who's a little more tested.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We have the incredible Camille Brown is doing all of
the choreography. She's stunning. Mike Chris Diaz as the book
writer and then obviously I create the music.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is going to be freaking out a little bit
of Licia because this is real deal Broadway. This isn't
off off off off Broadway.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Kind of like the real Like it's the realists of
the real that's so cool. We are at the Schubert Theater,
like the crown jewel of Broadway. We get to open
at the Schubert Theater.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They're ghosts at the Schubert Theater. A friend of mine
was in a show there once, and you say he's
scared of living.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No crap, everybody listenings, no, damn ghosts. Pay more for ghosts. Well,
come come, come see the show.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Don't the ghosts. Ghost You're good, ghost, You're good. Now, Okay,
back to this preview thing. I would pay money to
go watch a rehearsal where someone goes stop stop stop, no, no,
I told you it's step two three four step two
three four.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Drama.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, like the tantrums and the Diva moments.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We actually went to a sound stage in Los Angeles
years ago when Madonna was about to do her whatever tour,
and she gave us the full rehearsal. They call it rehearsal,
and it was she stopped that crap down in the
middle and she read some guys up and down. I
would love to see.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, it is. It is exciting. I mean, there is
a dress, there is an invited dress that happens. Maybe
you should.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Come so you have the power to do that. So
it's called Hell's Kitchen because of course Alicia Keys grew
up in Hell's Kitchen. My favorite story, and I'm assuming
this will be folded in, is when you and your
mother pushed a piano down the sidewalk to your apartment.
Am I spoiling? Is this a spoiler alert? Am I
giving it something I want?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
No? Because, first of all, the show Hell's Kitchen, although
it is based on my experiences growing up in New York,
is not autobiographical. So you will definitely get pieces of
things that are experiences that are infused into it. But
it's not like you shouldn't come out there like wait
did that really happen? Because it's not auto biographical, but
(03:57):
it's inspired by my experience is growing up.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In So no piano pushing with moms, So there's.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Not a moment where we're pushing the piano down where
the characters are pushing the piano down the street. But
there's so many moments that take you to these places
that you can't believe. And ultimately it is a love
story between a mother and a daughter. There you go,
so you do really every everyone who comes there calling
their mother at the air like Mom.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I really love you.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I sweat God, I'm sorry I was bad to you
because mamaus go through a lot. But this show is
really really special the way that the the way that
the relationship between the mother and daughter evolved. Because it
starts off really rocky.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I will cry. There will be tears, many tears. So
you know, you have such a rich catalog, Alicia, the
Alicia Keys catalog. Oh you're gonna make so much money
on that one day. No people are doing it, but
it's such a rich now to be able to to
be able to fold these songs and these lyrics into
(04:56):
a stage production, there's gonna be a little tricky. It's
gonna be a little tricky for everyone who's working the
buttons on this.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know. I got to say that it's really fluid
the way the music is a part of it. There
are I've written new songs for this musical as well.
So you're gonna hear some new music. One of them obviously,
it's Kaleidoscope, which you're gonna hear, right. But the songs
that are on albums or are well known, the way
that we've done them, they're really smart and they really
help propel the storyline forward. So you hear this song,
(05:25):
one of my favorites, is unthinkable, actually, and you start
to see this relationship develop, and the way that you
hear unthinkable even I myself when we were first putting
it together. So why didn't I create unthinkable like this before?
Like I never even thought to perform it like this
before or to do so. A lot of the ways
that it's happening, even I've never experienced a song like
(05:45):
that before, And so I think it's very exciting because
not only does it assist the storyline, but you're hearing
the music that you love in a way that you
never heard it and it feels good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Alicia Keys is here the new musical. It's called Hell's Kitchen.
The previews began March twenty eighth, and uh, obviously it's
already been staged and you've seen, you've seen lights, you've seen, Yes,
was there ever a moment you're sitting in the almost
empty Schobert Theater watching everything going on the stage as
they prepared for this incredible performance. Hey, and you actually
(06:16):
just what the how did I get here?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This is Broadway, New York City, which was your backyard
growing up in Hell's Kitchen. Now it's you're in the
backyard with your own show.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No, it's when I tell you it's crazy. Literally, last
night we were just in the theater and I was like, guys,
this is not regular, Like I know everybody's up in
here working and we're all like, oh, we're in the
Schubert Theater. This isn't You don't just every day launch
of Browers show Like this is crazy and I'm not
going to be cool about this because this is out
of control. And I really really felt that so deeply,
(06:54):
and I feel this so deeply in the process of
bringing it all together, because crazy thing is, there's so
many creative ideas and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't,
and so when it does kind of go all the way,
it's it's a shock, it's a blessing. It's like it's
kind of unbelievable because there's so many things that could
not work about it in so many different stages, but
that's not the case, and so it feels unbelievable. And
(07:16):
thinking of my mother who grew up in Toledo, Ohio,
moved to New York City to study at NYU to
really become an actor, a dancer and actress, and now
all these years later, we're able to see her dream
come true. Wow, it's like, I can't even tell you
what that means to me, you know, And in so
many ways she's she gave me these dreams to fulfill,
(07:40):
you know, And so the fact that they are becoming
fulfilled is like, I mean, I definitely get on the
tier train, so don't have me started. But it's just unbelievable.
It really is. As we stood on the tks, mine
got cheap tickets to see the shows as a kid, right,
you know, all the things, and so now you know,
now kids can come see this and know that it's
(08:02):
possible to create their dreams.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
See. I love the fact that you know how important
it is to keep theater and music and stuff in
the school systems, that you actually recently helped a school
that was losing their entire program.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yes, I'm grateful. I'm really grateful. About this. This is
Professional Performing Arts School, which is my junior high school
in high school, and that's where I went to school myself.
And recently there's been some funding cuts and obviously it's
always tricky to keep the programs. And a young girl
in her class made a GoFundMe and was really trying
to save the program and so I was able to,
(08:36):
along with other people, make sure that the program is intact.
And amen, I'm really grateful.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Virginia went to school up in the Bronx that they
were going to they cut the arts program in her school.
She left, had school went to another one. She said,
screw this.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Actually, Jennifer Lopez was my choreographer. She had gone to
the school. Yeah, and her sisters were in school with me,
and they after the year, after my sophomore year, they
were cutting the program and I'm like, you know, I'm like,
I can't go to a school that doesn't have a
theater program.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So I left.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But actually they heard me talking about it. They hit
me up the other day, Preston High School theater program
is back, to come and visit and see the new show.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You should donate a tuba or something.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
So when you're talking to those kids and thinking about
those kids who are all starting out and they're really
interested in performing. Where do you even begin to give
them advice on how someday they have a Broadway show,
asking for a front.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Asking for a friend. Absolutely, I mean I think that
it's it's a it's a really long process. Obviously, you know,
it took me thirteen years to bring it to life,
so it doesn't necessarily happen fast. And most creative things,
it takes time. It takes time to put in the work,
it takes time to find the right people to work with,
It takes time to make sure it's ready, and all
those things. So I think the first thing is that
just begin though, begin with the story, begin with the creative,
(09:52):
begin with the idea, and then start to find the
people that can support it and bring to it which
you can't and then have patience but also have the
fire so that you can continue to push it along.
But it is, it really is. It's definitely possible. I'm
not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying it's fast,
but it's definitely is definitely possible. So that's how we started.
(10:14):
We started. I started with the concept and then the
book writer was the one that I discovered first, and
he was the one that really we worked together a
lot to develop the story and then we could go
from there.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
How fun because you've been doing music, you've been recording
for a while now and hitting it out of the
park thing. But now you're learning something new.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You know what it's like, Okay, this is something very new.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Everything is new, and you're.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Working with people who have this expertise at this high
level and now they're bringing you up to their level.
Now now you're gonna be like super producer or USA.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Hey hey, no. But I do have to say it
is really exciting to learn new things, you know, to
take be outside of your own comfort zone. And I
think what it does really well is that it takes
it's really mixing worlds. And I think that's what's happening
with Broadway that I'm very excited about being a part of,
is mixing worlds together, allowing worlds to collide so that
(11:08):
we're taking the best of all the pieces and making
it new and refreshed. And and there's a there's a
such an interesting way to continue to grow and so
I love there so many things I don't know. There's
so many things they don't know. There's things I know
they don't know, things they know I don't know, and
we get to kind of share together and uplift and
it's cool.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
It was kind of funny that the history of Broadway
and stage, I mean you of course being performing and
recording artists. Uh, that's always evolving in more digital here
and there. It's it's always changing. Putting a show on
a Broadway stage is an old school medium, it really is.
I mean, so you're you are mixing the new with
the old and doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
In the old days, they would put a show on,
then they'd all go to Sardis and wait for the
reviews to come.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Out, actually sorities across the street exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I mean you're living that the history of New
York City. This is just cool and so it's really.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Tied up into it. And I really feel like I
was very conscious about that as creating this, because I
know that Listen, some people are musical theater die hards.
They know every single song from every single moment, and
every single one they can reenact it and sing it
and the whole thing you're watching you and some people
you know, really haven't found their connection to musical theater
and they feel like maybe it's you know, it doesn't
(12:24):
resonate with them, and so I really was conscious about
how this whole thing was put together so that both
worlds can feel comfortable in this space. You really feel
you hear a sonic of music that is inspiring. There's like,
you know, we're even making sure we're redefining the way
that the speakers and the sound is relayed to the audience,
so you really feel it in like more like a
(12:45):
concert way, but at the same time you can hear
all the words and feel the emotion, and so it's
really beautiful the way that it's it's combining, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Couple of things. Number one, you got to see Alicia
Keys and her incredible music come to life in a
new way and you see it right in front of you.
There's nothing more exciting than live theater, and you watch
it Hell's Kitchen of course previous March twenty eighth and
the big premiere you said April twenty twentieth for twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Twenty thirteen joints.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Thirteen joints twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Another thing, since you were so so cool to the
prestigious public performing arts school called Professional Performing Arts School.
We are on behalf of the Elves Straight Morning Show.
We're gonna make a contribution of fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Oh my gosh, God in your name, don't forget we
got tobass.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
No, that's incredible. They're going to be so happy.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What you're doing is incredible. Keep it going, and we
also get to play Kaleidoscope.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, we do kaleidoscope. This is introducing Malia Joy Moon,
who is the main character of Hell's Kitchen. Her name
is Ali. This is the first time that you're gonna
hear this incredible powerhouse. This girl can sing, she can dance,
she can act. She is just getting started. She's only
twenty one years old, and this is gonna launch her
into her Her whole world is opening up, just like
(14:14):
this song talks about. And so Kaleidoscope is really exciting.
This is the part of the show. Ali discovers that
she's been looking for something. She wants to find something
more than this kind of feeling of being held back
by everybody she knows, and she's about to be up
to stuff. So this song is good.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Here it comes. I can't wait to see Hell's kitchen,
Alicia Kids, Thanks for coming on TODA
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Here we go. Alicia Keys is here. Yeah, we're so
excited to have you. We're excited to have you anywhere,
especially here. Thank you Hell's Kitchen. This new musical. Alisia
Keys has been working on this for you said, thirteen.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Years, thirteen joints. You know, that's how you look at
it as Jointsandy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Smoke, thirteen joints before the show I'm working.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Well, you should because the show opens on four to twenty,
so it's kind of perfect.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Explain this to me. Previews start March twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Correct, So previews do start March twenty eight. Y'all can
come see that as well. And what happens is there's
three weeks, about three and a half weeks of previews
that allow us to test everything with an audience, and
then you make changes during that time, and then when.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You stop the show, like in the middle, if you
go to a preview, can somebody stop and say we
got to reset that?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah? Is that what happens?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You wouldn't do that, would you?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
No? You cannot do that, okaye. It runs like a show,
and you're going to experience the show and it's gonna
be amazing. But after the show there's a bunch of notes,
and then the notes get implemented, and then for twenty
you can't touch it anymore. And that's the official opening.
You can touch the creative anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So walls during previews, you may be in the back
just kind of hiding. I'm there a lot, and then
when it comes to notes time, here's Alicia, girl, you
were off key.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
There's a bunch of notes on multiple levels. For sure.
There's gonna be some musical notes. There's gonna be some
dialogue notes. You know, there's gonna be choreography notes. There's
gonna be stylin notes, wardrobe notes, lightning notes, set design notes,
all of these things that kind of come together and
you're like, this doesn't feel quite right. Can we fix this?
I'm noticing that's not happening, and it happens from everyone.
The director Michael Greif, who also did Rent and Dear Evan.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hand never heard of those, right, Oh God, couldn't you
get someone who's a little more tested.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We have the incredible Camille Brown is doing all of
the choreography. She's stunning. Mike Chris Diaz as the book
writer and then obviously I create the music.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is going to be freaking out a little bit
of Licia because this is real deal Broadway. This isn't
off off off off Broadway.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Kind of like the real Like it's the realists of
the real that's so cool. We are at the Schubert Theater,
like the crown jewel of Broadway. We get to open
at the Schubert Theater.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They're ghosts at the Schubert Theater. A friend of mine
was in a show there once, and you say he's
scared of living.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No crap, everybody listenings, no, damn ghosts. Pay more for ghosts. Well,
come come, come see the show.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Don't the ghosts. Ghost You're good, ghost, You're good. Now, Okay,
back to this preview thing. I would pay money to
go watch a rehearsal where someone goes stop stop stop, no, no,
I told you it's step two three four step two
three four.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Drama.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, like the tantrums and the Diva moments.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We actually went to a sound stage in Los Angeles
years ago when Madonna was about to do her whatever tour,
and she gave us the full rehearsal. They call it rehearsal,
and it was she stopped that crap down in the
middle and she read some guys up and down. I
would love to see.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, it is. It is exciting. I mean, there is
a dress, there is an invited dress that happens. Maybe
you should.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Come so you have the power to do that. So
it's called Hell's Kitchen because of course Alicia Keys grew
up in Hell's Kitchen. My favorite story, and I'm assuming
this will be folded in, is when you and your
mother pushed a piano down the sidewalk to your apartment.
Am I spoiling? Is this a spoiler alert? Am I
giving it something I want?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
No? Because, first of all, the show Hell's Kitchen, although
it is based on my experiences growing up in New York,
is not autobiographical. So you will definitely get pieces of
things that are experiences that are infused into it. But
it's not like you shouldn't come out there like wait
did that really happen? Because it's not auto biographical, but
(03:57):
it's inspired by my experience is growing up.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In So no piano pushing with moms, So there's.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Not a moment where we're pushing the piano down where
the characters are pushing the piano down the street. But
there's so many moments that take you to these places
that you can't believe. And ultimately it is a love
story between a mother and a daughter. There you go,
so you do really every everyone who comes there calling
their mother at the air like Mom.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I really love you.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I sweat God, I'm sorry I was bad to you
because mamaus go through a lot. But this show is
really really special the way that the the way that
the relationship between the mother and daughter evolved. Because it
starts off really rocky.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I will cry. There will be tears, many tears. So
you know, you have such a rich catalog, Alicia, the
Alicia Keys catalog. Oh you're gonna make so much money
on that one day. No people are doing it, but
it's such a rich now to be able to to
be able to fold these songs and these lyrics into
(04:56):
a stage production, there's gonna be a little tricky. It's
gonna be a little tricky for everyone who's working the
buttons on this.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You know. I got to say that it's really fluid
the way the music is a part of it. There
are I've written new songs for this musical as well.
So you're gonna hear some new music. One of them obviously,
it's Kaleidoscope, which you're gonna hear, right. But the songs
that are on albums or are well known, the way
that we've done them, they're really smart and they really
help propel the storyline forward. So you hear this song,
(05:25):
one of my favorites, is unthinkable, actually, and you start
to see this relationship develop, and the way that you
hear unthinkable even I myself when we were first putting
it together. So why didn't I create unthinkable like this before?
Like I never even thought to perform it like this
before or to do so. A lot of the ways
that it's happening, even I've never experienced a song like
(05:45):
that before, And so I think it's very exciting because
not only does it assist the storyline, but you're hearing
the music that you love in a way that you
never heard it and it feels good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Alicia Keys is here the new musical. It's called Hell's Kitchen.
The previews began March twenty eighth, and uh, obviously it's
already been staged and you've seen, you've seen lights, you've seen, Yes,
was there ever a moment you're sitting in the almost
empty Schobert Theater watching everything going on the stage as
they prepared for this incredible performance. Hey, and you actually
(06:16):
just what the how did I get here?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This is Broadway, New York City, which was your backyard
growing up in Hell's Kitchen. Now it's you're in the
backyard with your own show.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No, it's when I tell you it's crazy. Literally, last
night we were just in the theater and I was like, guys,
this is not regular, Like I know everybody's up in
here working and we're all like, oh, we're in the
Schubert Theater. This isn't You don't just every day launch
of Browers show Like this is crazy and I'm not
going to be cool about this because this is out
of control. And I really really felt that so deeply,
(06:54):
and I feel this so deeply in the process of
bringing it all together, because crazy thing is, there's so
many creative ideas and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't,
and so when it does kind of go all the way,
it's it's a shock, it's a blessing. It's like it's
kind of unbelievable because there's so many things that could
not work about it in so many different stages, but
that's not the case, and so it feels unbelievable. And
(07:16):
thinking of my mother who grew up in Toledo, Ohio,
moved to New York City to study at NYU to
really become an actor, a dancer and actress, and now
all these years later, we're able to see her dream
come true. Wow, it's like, I can't even tell you
what that means to me, you know, And in so
many ways she's she gave me these dreams to fulfill,
(07:40):
you know, And so the fact that they are becoming
fulfilled is like, I mean, I definitely get on the
tier train, so don't have me started. But it's just unbelievable.
It really is. As we stood on the tks, mine
got cheap tickets to see the shows as a kid, right,
you know, all the things, and so now you know,
now kids can come see this and know that it's
(08:02):
possible to create their dreams.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
See. I love the fact that you know how important
it is to keep theater and music and stuff in
the school systems, that you actually recently helped a school
that was losing their entire program.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yes, I'm grateful. I'm really grateful. About this. This is
Professional Performing Arts School, which is my junior high school
in high school, and that's where I went to school myself.
And recently there's been some funding cuts and obviously it's
always tricky to keep the programs. And a young girl
in her class made a GoFundMe and was really trying
to save the program and so I was able to,
(08:36):
along with other people, make sure that the program is intact.
And amen, I'm really grateful.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Virginia went to school up in the Bronx that they
were going to they cut the arts program in her school.
She left, had school went to another one. She said,
screw this.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Actually, Jennifer Lopez was my choreographer. She had gone to
the school. Yeah, and her sisters were in school with me,
and they after the year, after my sophomore year, they
were cutting the program and I'm like, you know, I'm like,
I can't go to a school that doesn't have a
theater program.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So I left.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But actually they heard me talking about it. They hit
me up the other day, Preston High School theater program
is back, to come and visit and see the new show.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You should donate a tuba or something.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
So when you're talking to those kids and thinking about
those kids who are all starting out and they're really
interested in performing. Where do you even begin to give
them advice on how someday they have a Broadway show,
asking for a front.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Asking for a friend. Absolutely, I mean I think that
it's it's a it's a really long process. Obviously, you know,
it took me thirteen years to bring it to life,
so it doesn't necessarily happen fast. And most creative things,
it takes time. It takes time to put in the work,
it takes time to find the right people to work with,
It takes time to make sure it's ready, and all
those things. So I think the first thing is that
just begin though, begin with the story, begin with the creative,
(09:52):
begin with the idea, and then start to find the
people that can support it and bring to it which
you can't and then have patience but also have the
fire so that you can continue to push it along.
But it is, it really is. It's definitely possible. I'm
not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying it's fast,
but it's definitely is definitely possible. So that's how we started.
(10:14):
We started. I started with the concept and then the
book writer was the one that I discovered first, and
he was the one that really we worked together a
lot to develop the story and then we could go
from there.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
How fun because you've been doing music, you've been recording
for a while now and hitting it out of the
park thing. But now you're learning something new.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You know what it's like, Okay, this is something very new.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Everything is new, and you're.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Working with people who have this expertise at this high
level and now they're bringing you up to their level.
Now now you're gonna be like super producer or USA.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Hey hey, no. But I do have to say it
is really exciting to learn new things, you know, to
take be outside of your own comfort zone. And I
think what it does really well is that it takes
it's really mixing worlds. And I think that's what's happening
with Broadway that I'm very excited about being a part of,
is mixing worlds together, allowing worlds to collide so that
(11:08):
we're taking the best of all the pieces and making
it new and refreshed. And and there's a there's a
such an interesting way to continue to grow and so
I love there so many things I don't know. There's
so many things they don't know. There's things I know
they don't know, things they know I don't know, and
we get to kind of share together and uplift and
it's cool.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
It was kind of funny that the history of Broadway
and stage, I mean you of course being performing and
recording artists. Uh, that's always evolving in more digital here
and there. It's it's always changing. Putting a show on
a Broadway stage is an old school medium, it really is.
I mean, so you're you are mixing the new with
the old and doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
In the old days, they would put a show on,
then they'd all go to Sardis and wait for the
reviews to come.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Out, actually sorities across the street exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I mean you're living that the history of New
York City. This is just cool and so it's really.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Tied up into it. And I really feel like I
was very conscious about that as creating this, because I
know that Listen, some people are musical theater die hards.
They know every single song from every single moment, and
every single one they can reenact it and sing it
and the whole thing you're watching you and some people
you know, really haven't found their connection to musical theater
and they feel like maybe it's you know, it doesn't
(12:24):
resonate with them, and so I really was conscious about
how this whole thing was put together so that both
worlds can feel comfortable in this space. You really feel
you hear a sonic of music that is inspiring. There's like,
you know, we're even making sure we're redefining the way
that the speakers and the sound is relayed to the audience,
so you really feel it in like more like a
(12:45):
concert way, but at the same time you can hear
all the words and feel the emotion, and so it's
really beautiful the way that it's it's combining, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Couple of things. Number one, you got to see Alicia
Keys and her incredible music come to life in a
new way and you see it right in front of you.
There's nothing more exciting than live theater, and you watch
it Hell's Kitchen of course previous March twenty eighth and
the big premiere you said April twenty twentieth for twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Twenty thirteen joints.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Thirteen joints twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Another thing, since you were so so cool to the
prestigious public performing arts school called Professional Performing Arts School.
We are on behalf of the Elves Straight Morning Show.
We're gonna make a contribution of fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Oh my gosh, God in your name, don't forget we
got tobass.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
No, that's incredible. They're going to be so happy.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What you're doing is incredible. Keep it going, and we
also get to play Kaleidoscope.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, we do kaleidoscope. This is introducing Malia Joy Moon,
who is the main character of Hell's Kitchen. Her name
is Ali. This is the first time that you're gonna
hear this incredible powerhouse. This girl can sing, she can dance,
she can act. She is just getting started. She's only
twenty one years old, and this is gonna launch her
into her Her whole world is opening up, just like
(14:14):
this song talks about. And so Kaleidoscope is really exciting.
This is the part of the show. Ali discovers that
she's been looking for something. She wants to find something
more than this kind of feeling of being held back
by everybody she knows, and she's about to be up
to stuff. So this song is good.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Here it comes. I can't wait to see Hell's kitchen,
Alicia Kids, Thanks for coming on TODA
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