Alicia Keys was solely 20 years previous when her 2001 single “Fallin’” turned a world sensation, topping the Billboard charts, successful a number of Grammys and serving to propel her to stardom. Now, greater than twenty years later, the track seems within the new Broadway musical “Hell’s Kitchen.”
The present — which attracts from Keys’s life story and her discography — presents ”Fallin’” in a completely new method: as a track 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 realized from adapting the track for the stage.
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