HELL’S KITCHEN will celebrate its Original Broadway Cast Recording with a special in-store album signing at Barnes & Noble today, September 13 at 12PM. Tony Award winner Maleah Joi Moon, Tony, Emmy & Grammy Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon, Vanessa Ferguson (NBC’s “The Voice”) and Jackie Leon from the critically acclaimed new musical will be in attendance.
The Original Broadway Cast Recording for critically acclaimed new Broadway musical, currently nominated for 13 Tony Awards, the most of any new musical this season, HELL’S KITCHEN is available now via Alicia Keys Records/Interscope Records on streaming and digital platforms worldwide with a physical release to follow. Additionally, the official music video for “If I Ain’t Got You” featuring Brandon Victor Dixon and Maleah Joi Moon is out now!
Produced by Alicia Keys, Adam Blackstone and Tom Kitt, The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hell’s Kitchen includes orchestrations by Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone, music supervision by Adam Blackstone, arrangements by Alicia Keys and Adam Blackstone. The album is engineered by Ann Mincieli and Brendan Morawski and mixed by Ann Mincieli, Brendan Morawski, Eric Schilling and Ken Lewis with production management by Jill Dell’Abate and assistant engineers include Frank Holland, Robert Regeiro and Steve Tejeda.
The album was recorded at Jungle City Studios in New York City, mastered by Dave Kutch at the Mastering Palace, NYC, immersive mixed by Eric Schilling and Ann Mincieli and immersive mastered by Michael Romanowski at Coast Mastering, Berkeley, CA. Photos from the cast recording sessions can be downloaded here.
Musicians on the album include Lily Ling (Music Director/Keyboard 1), Linda Aziza Miller (Associate/Keyboard 2), John Yun (Keyboard 3), Adam Blackstone (Keyboard 4), Erskine Hawkins (Additional Keyboards), Jaylen Petinaud (Drums 1), Mike Reid (Drums 2), Aaron Romero (Upright and Electric Bass), Marc Malsegna (Guitar 1), Ben Weiss (Guitar 2), Victor Pablo (Percussion), Belinda Whitney (Violin 1), Gabriela Rengel (Violin 2), Carla Fabiani (Viola), Melissa Westgate (Cello), Darryl Yokley (Woodwinds), Willie Applewhite (Trombone), John Walsh (Trumpet), Kristy Norter (Music Coordinator), Enrico de Trizio (Ableton & Electronic Drum Programming), Randy Cohen; Randy Cohen Keyboards (Keyboard Programming), Troy PC Beatz Thompson, Yountie Strickland (Additional Programming (“Girl On Fire”)), Emily Grishman Music Preparation (Music Copying).
HELL’S KITCHEN (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Album Track List
- “The Elevator Prologue” Maleah Joi Moon
- “The Gospel” Maleah Joi Moon, Shoshana Bean, Chris Lee, Chad Carstarphen, Vanessa Ferguson, Jakeim Hart, Jackie Leon, Nyseli Vega, Lamont Walker II, Rema Webb
- “The River” Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “Seventeen” Shoshana Bean, Chad Carstarphen, Nyseli Vega, Rema Webb
- “You Don’t Know My Name” Maleah Joi Moon, Vanessa Ferguson, Jackie Leon
- “Miss Liza Jane Plays Piano for the First Time” Maleah Joi Moon
- “Kaleidoscope” Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “Gramercy Park” Chris Lee, Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “Not Even the King” Brandon Victor Dixon
- “Teenage Love Affair” Shoshana Bean, Ensemble
- “Not Even the King Reprise” Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon
- “Unthinkable (I’m Ready)” Maleah Joi Moon, Chris Lee
- “You Play These Notes” Kecia Lewis, Maleah Joi Moon
- “Girl On Fire” Jackie Leon, Vanessa Ferguson, Chris Lee, Nyseli Vega, Rema Webb, Jakeim Hart, Lamont Walker II, Ensemble
- “Perfect Way to Die” Kecia Lewis
- “Heartburn” Maleah Joi Moon, Shoshana Bean, Ensemble
- “Love Looks Better” Shoshana Bean, Ensemble
- “Work On It” Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “Price, Bonds and Scott” Kecia Lewis
- “Authors of Forever” Kecia Lewis, Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “Fallin’” Brandon Victor Dixon, Shoshana Bean, Ensemble
- “If I Ain’t Got You” Brandon Victor Dixon, Maleah Joi Moon
- “Pawn It All” Shoshana Bean, Ensemble
- “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” Maleah Joi Moon, Chris Lee
- “When It’s All Over” Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “Hallelujah/Like Water” Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis, Maleah Joi Moon, Rema Webb, Ensemble
- “No One” Shoshana Bean, Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “All We Can Do Is Play” Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
- “Empire State of Mind” Maleah Joi Moon, Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Chris Lee, Kecia Lewis, Vanessa Ferguson, Jackie Leon, Ensemble
- “Kaleidoscope (Bonus)” Alicia Keys, Maleah Joi Moon, Ensemble
HELL’S KITCHEN began performances on Thursday, March 28, 2024 and officially opened on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street.).
The “powerhouse cast” (Variety) is led by Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis, Chris Lee, and Maleah Joi Moon. HELL’S KITCHEN is directed by four-time Tony Award® nominee Michael Greif, with choreography by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown, a book by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz – and the music of Keys, featuring new songs and her greatest hits.
It features Chad Carstarphen, Reid Clarke, Chloe Davis, Nico DeJesus, Timothy L. Edwards, Desmond Sean Ellington, Badia Farha, Vanessa Ferguson, David Guzman, Gianna Harris, Jakeim Hart, Takia Hopson, Jackie Leon, Raechelle Manalo, Jade Milan, Onyxx Noel, Susan Oliveras, Sarah Parker, Aaron Nicholas Patterson, William Roberson, Niki Saludez, Nyseli Vega, Donna Vivino, Lamont Walker II, Rema Webb, and Oscar Whitney Jr.
The creative team for HELL’S KITCHEN includes, Robert Brill (Scenic Design), Dede Ayite (Costume Design), Natasha Katz (Lighting Design), Gareth Owen (Sound Design), Peter Nigrini (Projection Design), Mia Neal (Hair and Wig Design), Michael Clifton (Makeup Design), Heidi Griffiths and Kate Murray (Casting), Danny Maly (Production Stage Manager), and Foresight Theatrical (General Management).