CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For most recording artists, a greatest hits set is a capstone. For Alicia Keys, it was a starting point.

In “Hell’s Kitchen,” the Tony-winning musical inspired by her teenage years, the 17-time Grammy winner doesn’t just stitch together her best-known songs. She pulls them apart, finding new emotion and meaning in lyrics she’s been singing for decades.

“It was really a beautiful experience,” Keys said in a recent interview with cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer . “As many times as I sang ‘No One’ all across the globe, I never thought of it as being a love song between a mother and a daughter. It even hit me differently.”

In the show, which launched its national tour this month at Playhouse Square and runs through Nov. 1, “No One” serves as the story’s emotional r

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