The Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’s concept album based on The Warriors, the cult novel and film about warring New York gangs, is to become a Broadway musical next year. The album, Warriors , was released to critical acclaim in 2024 and followed the eponymous Coney Island clan’s odyssey back to the Bronx after being falsely accused of killing the leader of the city’s biggest gang. The original story was written by Sol Yurick, whose 1965 book was inspired by Xenophon’s ancient epic Anabasis, and it became a Walter Hill action film in 1979. Miranda told the Guardian upon the album’s release that a stage version would be “ enormous fun ”. Now, Warriors has lined up a home, the Lunt-Fontanne theatre, for a spring opening. Andy Blankenbuehler, who choreographed Miranda’s smash hit Hamilton, will co-direct with Jenny Koons, and will also choreograph the show. ‘A question that all of us are wrestling with’ … Eisa Davis and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Photograph: Jimmy Fontaine “There’s one line that’s on the album that’s also in the musical, which is ‘What do you do when they kill everything you believe in?’” Davis said in an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday. “And I think that that question is a question that all of us are wrestling with in the world right now.” Davis and Miranda said that the show would feature a cast of about 20 and have a book rather than being a sung-through musical. …