Alicia Keys was only 20 years old when her 2001 single “Fallin’” became an international sensation, topping the Billboard charts, winning multiple Grammys and helping propel her to stardom. Now, more than two decades later, the song appears in the new Broadway musical “Hell’s Kitchen.”
The show — which draws from Keys’s life story and her discography — presents ”Fallin’” in a totally new way: as a song of seduction sung by a middle-aged man. Keys joins our theater reporter, Michael Paulson, to discuss the history of “Fallin’” and what she has learned from adapting the song for the stage.
On today’s episode
Michael Paulson, a theater reporter for The Times.
Additional reading
Michael’s profile of Alicia Keys
Elisabeth Vincentelli’s review of “Hell’s Kitchen”
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Source: Theater - nytimes.com
