Alicia Keys popped a bottle of champagne in celebration after receiving an incredible 13 Tony Award nominations for Hell’s Kitchen – including for Best Musical.
The singer, 43, was left in disbelief as the semi-autobiographical musical for which she wrote the score and arranged the music was given so many nods.
On Tuesday she took to social media to react as she shared a snap drinking from an expensive bottle of champagne at 7am.
Her husband Swizz Beatz also sweetly filmed her after she got the call with the news and she held her head in complete shock.
She said as she beamed: ‘We just found out that Hell’s kitchen was nominated for 13 Tony’s oh my god!’
Alicia Keys popped a bottle of champagne in celebration after receiving an incredible 13 Tony Award nominations for Hell’s Kitchen – including Best Musical
The singer, 43, was left in disbelief as the semi-autobiographical musical for which she wrote the score and arranged the music was given so many nods
On Tuesday she took to social media to react as she shared a snap drinking from an expensive bottle of champagne at 7am
The camera then moved over to their nine-year-old son Genesis who kindly clapped for his mum.
Their older son Egypt, 13, then sweetly quipped: ‘She’s probably going to win all two as well! Congratulations mom!’
They then shared a sweet hug as Alicia screamed: ‘This is crazy!! I’m gonna pop a bottle at 7am! Woooo!’
She then shared a clip of her spraying the champagne near the pool area of their house before sipping straight from the bottle.
She penned in the caption as she shared the clips and snaps: ’13 TONY Nominations is worthy of popping a bottle at 7am.’
Alicia said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: ‘I kind of lost it, kind of freaked out, and I was super excited, particularly that all of the collaborators on this project are seeing so much love and so much greatness for their brilliance. I’m so excited for everybody and for Hell’s Kitchen. It’s just like, ‘Whoa!,’
She worked on the project for 13 years with writer Kristoffer Diaz, director Michael Greif and choreographer Camille A Brown.
The story is based on her upbringing as a young singer in Hell’s Kitchen – a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
She penned in the caption as she shared the clips and snaps: ’13 TONY Nominations is worthy of popping a bottle at 7am’
Alicia said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: ‘I kind of lost it, kind of freaked out, and I was super excited’
Her husband Swizz Beatz also sweetly filmed her after she got the call with the news and she held her head in complete shock
She worked on the project for 13 years with writer Kristoffer Diaz, director Michael Greif and choreographer Camille A Brown
The camera then moved over to their nine-year-old son Genesis who kindly clapped for his mum
Their older son Egypt, 13, then sweetly quipped: ‘She’s probably going to win all two as well! Congratulations mom!’
They then shared a sweet hug as Alicia screamed: ‘This is crazy!! I’m gonna pop a bottle at 7am! Woooo!’
The story is based on her upbringing as a young singer in Hell’s Kitchen – a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City
It follows a 17-year-old, played by Maleah Joi Moon who learns to embrace music and her community amid the backdrop of a complicated relationship with her mother played by Shoshana Bean – who is a single parent
It follows a 17-year-old, played by Maleah Joi Moon who learns to embrace music and her community amid the backdrop of a complicated relationship with her mother played by Shoshana Bean – who is a single parent.
The score includes some of her biggest hits like Girl on Fire and Empire State of Mind.
Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg‘s movie adaptation of the Broadway classic West Side Story, will host this year’s Tonys on June 16.
Some of the highest-profile categories were announced Tuesday on CBS, read out by Renee Elise Goldsberry and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
The rest of the nominations were unveiled later the same day, via the official YouTube page for the Tony Awards.
Hell’s Kitchen was the most nominated musical, with 13 nods – a feat equaled this year only by the straight play Stereophonic about a 1970s rock band.
The other best musical nominees include Suffs, a show about the suffragettes that has Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai among its producers.
Illinoise, a jukebox musical of Sufjan Stevens’ work, and The Outsider, based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, are also up for the top prize.
The best musical nominations were rounded out by Water For Elephants, an adaptation of the bestselling novel that was previously made into a movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.
Notable snubs for best musical included the Britney Spears show Once Upon A One More Time, the as well as the adaptations of the classic movies Back To The Future, The Notebook and Days Of Wine And Roses.
Rachel McAdams was nominated for best lead actress in a play in honor of her work in Mary Jane, starring her as the mother of a son with cerebral palsy.
She is up against Sarah Paulson for Appropriate, a dark comedy about three siblings feuding over their father’s estate after his death.
Jessica Lange is up for Mother Play, playing the mother of teens portrayed by Tony winner Celia Keenan-Bolger and The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.
The category includes Betsy Aidem in Prayer For The French Republic, a dark comedy by Joshua Harmon about mounting antisemitism in France.
Rachel’s category is rounded out by Amy Ryan for the lead role in John Patrick Shanley’s classic drama Doubt: A Parable, which was made into an acclaimed movie starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis.
Liev Schreiber is nominated for best lead actor in a play for Doubt: A Parable, playing the role of the priest accused of molesting a young boy.
He is up against a formidable group of thespians including Succession star Jeremy Strong in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People.
William Jackson Harper is also nominated in that category for Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, as is Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch and Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots.
Jim Parsons in Mother Play is nominated for best featured actor in a play, against Corey Stoll for Appropriate and Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka, all three for the play Stereophonic about a rising 1970s rock band.
The best featured actress in a play nods went to Quincy Tyler Bernstine in Doubt, Juliana Canfield and Sarah Pidgeon in Stereophonic, Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play and Kara Young in Purlie Victorious.
Daniel Radcliffe is nominated for best supporting actor in a musical for his role in a revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a polarizing 1980s piece that unfolds backwards in time.
His competitors are Roger Bart in Back To The Future: The Musical, Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch in The Outsiders, Brandon Victor Dixon in Hell’s Kitchen and Steven Skybell in the new revival of Cabaret.
Cabaret, with a score by Fred Ebb and John Kander and a book by Joe Masteroff, first opened on Broadway in 1966 and became an instant sensation, later adapted into a movie starring Liza Minnelli and directed by Bob Fosse.
Now rechristened Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, the revival stars Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne in the role of the master of ceremonies.
Eddie is nominated for best lead actor in a musical, in a category that includes Looking star Jonathan Groff in Merrily We Roll Along.
Dorian Harewood is also up for the musical of The Notebook, the Nicholas Sparks novel made into a beloved movie starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.
Broadway veteran Brian D’Arcy James is nominated for his lead the musical of the 1962 movie Days Of Wine And Roses, in which his role was played by Jack Lemmon, and the category is rounded out by Brody Grant in The Outsiders.
The best lead actress in a musical nominees include Wicked alumna Eden Espinosa for the title role in Lempicka, the story of the controversial interwar Polish painter Tamara Lempicka whose posthumous fanbase includes Madonna.
She is up against Maleah Joi Moon who plays Alicia Keys in Hell’s Kitchen, as well as Kelli O’Hara for Days Of Wine And Roses, Maryann Plunkett for the Rachel McAdams role in The Notebook and Gayle Rankin for the Liza Minnelli role in Cabaret.
Broadway titan Bebe Neuwirth has earned a nomination for best featured actress in a musical for her role as landlady Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club.
She is in a category that includes Shoshana Bean and Kecia Lewis for Hell’s Kitchen, Amber Iman for Lempicka, Nikki M James for Suffs, Lindsay Mendez for Merrily We Roll Along and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer for a revival of Monty Python’s Spamalot.
In the best original score for a musical category, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim are nominated for their immersive musical Here Lies Love about Imelda Marcos.
So is Adam Guettel, the grandson of The Sound Of Music composer Richard Rodgers, for the score of Days Of Wine And Roses.
The best original score category includes Shaina Taub for Suffs, Will Butler for Stereophonic and Jonathan Clay, Zach Chance and Justin Levine for The Outsiders.
The score for the production includes some of her biggest hits like Girl on Fire and Empire State of Mind
Alicia is pictured at its opening night last month at The Shubert Theatre where she wore a stylish denim ensemble
Meanwhile the best book of a musical nominations went to Kristoffer Diaz for Hell’s Kitchen, Bekah Brunstetter for The Notebook, Adam Rapp and Justin Levine for The Outsider, Shaina Taub for Suffs and Rick Elice for Water For Elephants.
For best play, Jocelyn Bioh is nominated for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Amy Herzog for Mary Jane, Paula Vogel for Mother Play, Joshua Harmon for Prayer For The French Republic and David Adjmi for Stereophonic.
The best revival of a musical nominees were Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Merrily We Roll Along and The Who’s Tommy.
Appropriate, An Enemy Of The People and Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch are up for Best Revival Of A Play.
