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What survives when ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ crosses cultures and language?

koreaherald.com · 4dShare

There are some inevitable hurdles to bringing the Broadway musical "Hell's Kitchen" to the Seoul stage as a Korean-language production. Rooted in Alicia Keys’ music and her semi-autobiographical story of growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, the musical arrived in Seoul just two years after its Broadway opening as its first non-English-language licensed production. The Korean production, which opened July 24 at the GS Arts Center, offers an early test of what happens when a story so rooted in

First report: Kim Soo-ha had to unlearn musical theater for ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ — koreaherald.com, 6d