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Alicia Keys was solely 20 years outdated when her 2001 single “Fallin’” turned a global sensation, topping the Billboard charts, profitable a number of Grammys and serving to propel her to stardom. Now, greater than 20 years later, the music seems within the new Broadway musical “Hell’s Kitchen.”
The present — which pulls from Keys’s life story and her discography — presents ”Fallin’” in a very new means: as a music of seduction sung by a middle-aged man. Keys joins our theater reporter, Michael Paulson, to debate the historical past of “Fallin’” and what she has discovered from adapting the music for the stage.
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