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Video: HELL'S KITCHEN Cast Unpacks Their Roles
May 16, 2024
Off-Broadway performances are now underway for Hell's Kitchen, the new musical that has already announced a move to Broadway later this year. In this video, watch as the cast unpacks their roles!
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Ally. Ally. She's loosely based off of Alicia Keys. I want to mention that
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But, um, when I first stepped into this role, there was so much to discover about her
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And to this day, you know, I'm still figuring out everything about her
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But, you know, we've grown together, and I've come to understand so much of her story
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and what she represents in this show. And I hope that I do her justice
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and all the beautiful work on the page. I play her mom, loosely based on her real-life mother
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who I have had the great good fortune of getting to know and become friends with
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The idea of this character and this woman who sacrificed her own dreams
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who raised a child alone in the middle of New York City in the middle of the 80s and 90s
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that was the intriguing story to me. And then getting to meet that woman
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get to know her, love her, become friends with her, hear her stories, it's been the greatest gift
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And she's a spectacular woman. I mean, she did it alone, so she was mother and father both
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She was helping Alicia find her muse in any way she could
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and also being a disciplinarian and trying to keep her safe. So it's a very treacherous tightrope to walk
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And I just love her. She's just such a gift, the character and the real life
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My character's name is Davis, and I play Ali's absentee father. What I love about him is that he is very honest
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and open about who he is and what he can give. And he gives all that he can give when he is present
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but he does make it clear that he's not always gonna be around, but he'll be there if you need him
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Okay, I play the role of Nuck. I'm the love interest, I'm one of those people
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And it's my first time playing like a male ingenue, like, you know, cute boy, sexy boy
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So I tried to, you know, just make sure I bring the romance in the right way
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and still have this spirit of New York, really, mainly, and the guy, the character I'm playing is like
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he looks one way and you stereotype him, but then he's got so many layers underneath
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And that's the fun part about playing Nuck. I play Miss Liza Jane, and I am Ali's piano teacher
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And what I love about Miss Liza Jane is that she is someone who represents
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what every single person in the world has had, which is a mentor, somebody who pours into you
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somebody who gives you more of your own DNA by pouring into you, in a way
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places that you don't know that you are gonna grow into. And so I just love the universality of who she is
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