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Mickey Jo
Does anyone remember when I was talking about the closure of Death becomes Her at the Luntfontanne Theatre? And I implied that a certain show might be heading there, which would mean its composer had had more than one musical open on the same street. Don't worry if you've forgotten, I still have the footage and in the case of the show that I am hearing may be attached to the Luntfontanne Theatre. It would also mean that 46th street would become slightly themed to a particular composer. I will say that much then. Just a week ago I was speculating about the possibility of Paddington, the musical newly announced for Broadway, winning the Tony Award for Best New Musical and I suggested that its path to the Tony was clear except for the possibility of of one potential Transfer. Roll that clip. Nothing has yet been confirmed about an actual fully staged production for warriors from Lin Manuel Miranda and Issa Davis, but that would be a huge show to rival if it were to arrive. Well, it's the news that I had clearly been anticipating, but honestly, not this soon. And yet, it's official. Warriors is heading to Broadway. I'm about to tell you what this show is, why you ought to be excited, and why this is a huge deal for Broadway. A new musical that could potentially live up to the hype of Hamilton. But just before I do, a quick introduction for anyone who may be meeting me for the first time. Oh my God.
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Welcome to my theatre themed YouTube channel. Or hello to those of you listening to this on podcast platforms. My name is Mickey Jo and I am obsessed with all things theatre. I'm also, in this exact moment, incredibly warm. The UK is currently going through a major heat wave. Don't laugh at me, North Americans. You don't know what it's like here. I would say ours is the land that air conditioning forgot, but it never really knew us in the first place. My point is panic. Not if during this broadcast it appears as though it's being brought to you by the Wicked Witch of the west, melting in real old time. Podcast listeners, this ought not to affect you. Unless of course, you can actually hear the sweat falling off of my head, which feels not beyond the realms of possibility. In any case, as you watch or listen to me do the two things that I like to do in the summer slowly boil and talk about musical theatre, please feel free to share your own thoughts about Warrior's Broadway announcement in the comments down below. Are you excited? Will you be booking tickets? Do you think this is the immediate front runner for the Tony? I know it's objectively too soon to have that conversation, but let's and as you listen to me, share all of my thoughts. If you enjoy, please feel free to subscribe here on YouTube. Very helpful. You can also follow me on podcast platforms or you can sign up to my free weekly email substack newsletter. For now though, I am so excited to tell you more about warriors heading to Broadway. So I actually found this out this evening at an opening night after party. I still haven't really read the official details. I know that it's heading to the Luntfontanne Theatre, which is something that I had heard rumored. Possibly that is the reason for the timing of this announcement. With Death Becomes her playing its final performance performance at the venue imminently. Let's see what playbill has to say about this three hours ago. It was reported by Andrew Gans for playbill.com Lin Manuel Miranda and Issa Davis's warriors musical will open on Broadway in 2027, meaning it is going to be a part of this current Broadway season, the one that we are in right now, including other already confirmed new musicals. Galileo, Paddington the Musical Wanted Apologies if I'm forgetting some others that are also touted to come in the spring. Potential Off Broadway transfers, the Curious Case of Benjamin, Midnight, the Heart being some possibilities, but more on that in just a bit. Here is the news. Warriors and it is warriors rather than the Warriors. Simply warriors with a book, music and lyrics by Lin Manuel Miranda of Hamilton and in the Heights and Issa Davis of Bullrushia will begin previews at Broadway's Luntfontanne Theatre in March 2027. It is going to be another major spring opening alongside presumably many others. After a very quiet previous Broadway season and a hugely busy season prior to that, it feels as though we' going to go back into this cycle of having a really busy season with many current Broadway shows possibly closing within the next six months. But you didn't hear that from me. Let's carry on. Based on the Paramount Pictures movie picture the warriors and the book the warriors by Saul Urich, the musical, licensed for the stage by Paramount Products and Experiences, will officially open in April 2027. Directed by Jenny Koons. That's headline news right there. More on that in just a moment and co directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, of course, a previous collaborator of Lin Manuel Mirand, having been the choreographer for Hamilton for In the Heights. The new musical follows a fictitious New York City gang from Coney island to the Bronx and back when they are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader. Cyrus. I know all of this because I have listened to the concept album which is mentioned a little further down here. Warriors originated as a concept album released October 18, 2024. Executive produced by Grammy winning rapper Nass and produced by Grammy winning musician Mike Elizondo. The immersive listening experience featured Ms. Lauryn Hill, Nass, Busta Rhymes, Mark Anthony, Bill Porter, Ghostface, Killer, rza, Colman Domingo, Cameron Kim, Dracula and more. That doesn't really mention any of the principal cast of that album, which was largely populated by Broadway names including the likes of Anissa Folds and Philippa sue and Amber Gray, among others. The show is to be produced by Thomas Kael in Tresting, the director of Hamilton and In the Heights, as well as Jeffrey Cellar, the producer of Hamilton and In the Heights, plus Lin Manuel Miranda and luis A. Miranda Jr. And we have a full creative team already. It will feature scenic design by David Corins. How very exciting. Costume design by Didi Aite. Also incredibly exciting. Lighting design by Natasha Katz. The pedigree of this creative team. My God. Sound design by Jason Crystal, projection design by Hannah S. Kim, music supervision by Kurt Crowley and orchestrations by Crowley, Scott Wasserman and Mike Elizondo. And that is almost everything they have to tell us in this article. Noting that casting, exact performance dates and additional creative team members will be announced at a later time, I wonder if they're going to have specific fight choreographers. I'm curious about how you could even enlarge that creat creative team. It feels like all of the traditional stuff is spoken for. We do have a quote here, a joint statement from Lin Manuel Miranda and Issa Davis, the co writers with warriors. We take a fateful journey through New York City, full of heart and grit as our characters fight to survive. Musicalizing such a vibrant world for the concept album has been a thrill, and now we're coming out to play on Broadway at the Luntfontanne. I almost didn't pick up on that reference in that line there. Warriors come out to play being an iconic line from the movie that made its way into the concept album. They finished by saying, we can't wait. And honestly, neither can I. This is news that perhaps felt inevitable to some people with Lin Manuel Miranda co writing a major new musical. And, you know, at this point in his career, with the extraordinary success that he's had with the position that he holds within the Broadway community, there's really no barrier if he wants to write a new musical, and if he wants for it to go to Broadway, it's going to go to Broadway. That being said, this didn't immediately seem like a foregone conclusion because it first emerged as a concept album for whatever reason. And you know, that's a pathway to the stage that we haven't seen in some years, in decades, really. There are some very successful shows from yesteryear, the likes of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, which began their lives as concept albums before eventually being realized on stage. Jesus Christ Superstar, which is currently being revived in the West End, and Evita, which is about to be revived on Broadway. And make no mistake, Lin Manuel Miranda knows this theater history well. So it would seem as though this was always the planned pipeline for Warriors. Interestingly enough, of his major works, I'm excluding Bring it on and like the translated lyrics from west side Story from this statistic. But of his major works in the Heights and Hamilton, this is going to be the first to open cold on Broadway, to go directly to Broadway with no pre Broadway Off Broadway run. And not to get too far ahead of ourselves here, but given how impactful and influential Hamilton has been on new musical theatre writing around the world, shows like six only really exist in the wake of the success of Hamilton. I wonder whether as a result of this we'll see the popularizing of more concept albums as pre West End or pre Broadway proofs of concept. But first, more on what little news we have. There is a Warriors musical Instagram account connected to a warriorsmusical.com website with a very cool subway inspired graphic here that lists the names of the warriors themselves, with the final stops there being warriors and Broadway March 2027. You can sign up for access to tickets should you wish to. Back on the Instagram we have a single reel that has been shared with this animation here. Epic music. It's very cinematic. It's like a coin I don't actually know much about. I've not yet seen the film. I'm going to see the film, but my entire knowledge of this plot and this material comes from just listening to it. Okay, that's cool. That's definitely cool. Intriguing as to whether they're going to move towards that kind of black and gold aesthetic which is very familiar of another show that's going to be playing on the same street. I'm talking about Hamilton, of course, rather than the spray painted red on black aesthetic that they had used for the album artwork. And obviously one of the most exciting things about this announcement, in fact, the second most exciting thing about this announcement is that just hours before it was made, Sweaty Oracle implied that it was actually going to be pushed a season and wouldn't be coming until 2028. Just love to see that proven wrong. The most exciting thing about this announcement is that it will mean there are two Lin Manuel Miranda scored musicals on the same street. And not that it should matter, but it makes me happy. That street being 46th street in New York with Hamilton playing just across the road at the Richard Rogers. All we need now is for the New York City center gala presentation of in the Heights to transfer to the newly available Marriott Marquis Theatre and he will truly own the street. But amongst all of this invoking of his previous work, you may be thinking, you know, there have been many musical theatre composers throughout history who haven't consistently generated hit shows with huge artistic and commercial success. Is warriors actually going to be able to follow in those formidable footsteps? Well, let me tell.
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Tell you what I think. So. True enough, Hamilton casts an awfully long shadow and warriors has an enormous amount to live up to. I think the amount of time that has passed between Hamilton's stratospheric culture redefining Broadway success and the arrival of Lynn's next major Broadway musical will ultimately be a very beneficial one. I think it will move people away from too comparison. If anything, I think because of what this is based on and because of what it depicts, there is going to be a little more comparison with the likes of the Lost Boys, which opened this season at the Palace Theatre earlier this year, as well as Tony Award winning best musical the Outsiders, which continues to run just one block down at the Jacobs Theatre. And you know, the Lost Boys is in many ways a little more proximal to warriors in terms of where those stories come from, but also in terms of perhaps the vibes of the whole thing. What sets warriors areas apart and what really makes this story exciting for the stage and really justifies the theatrical adaptation of the whole thing is they have taken this predominantly male story of gang survival in New York City from the film and they have turned it into an all female gang, A group of young women who are trying to survive while traversing New York City over one extended dramatic night. And in doing so, not only do they really set themselves apart from the original source mater, but also from the male dominated stories of the Lost Boys and the Outsiders, but they also invoke a very current and timely dialogue about the safety of women late at night. Like, fair enough, this is about a scrappy gang from Coney island who find themselves in fights with rival crews whose turfs they are passing through because it is believed that they have assassinated essentially the old Deuteronomy of their culture. Just to translate that into musical theater for you all, but practically it is also a story about these women and the dangers that they face and police corruption and, you know, trying to keep themselves safe late at night on the streets with so many threats at every subway stop. And that, I think is going to make it really interesting. And that I think is going to make it stand apart from the other comparable shows. Were I a producer on this, I might have considered waiting for a Broadway landscape in which at least one of the Outsiders and the Lost Boys weren't still currently running. Who knows? We will see what the situation looks like by next March. There is, I would say, high probability both of those shows are still open. Jumping over to Michael Paulson's reporting of this in the New York Times, there is a very interesting note here which is also going to set it apart from all of those other musicals, including Hamilton. There's a paragraph here that begins the one act musical, which will have a cast of about 20, has a key difference from the film. In the Miranda Davis version, the members of the title gang are women, as I already told you. However, the detail that we sped right past there, the one act musical. This is going to be a one act musical without an intermission. And the concept album, which does include a decent portion of of dialogue, is only 80 minutes long. So it would be fair to assume that a stage version of that with all of the physical sequences might be slightly enlarged and we might be looking at, I don't know, 100, 110 minutes of uninterrupted musical theater, which feels like a good choice for retaining the intensity of this story. I'm also fascinated by the concept of it having a cast of about 20, just under half of that will be the warriors themselves, with the additional roles presumably played by a multi rolling company. Which is what we had expected because a lot of the characters who you encounter on this concept album, who for the purposes of that concept album were portrayed by different vocalists only really pop up for one song or one scene at a time. So it would make sense for there to be a company that portrays this gang that they meet and then this gang over here and then also these people in the background. If you haven't listened to the concept album, I really would encourage you to do so. It's actually a very functional and satisfying standalone piece of storytelling that plays like a musical theater audiobook. And it is, as you would expect with Lynn, every bit as groundbreaking and exciting as much of his previous work for the stage. And it's because I fell so in love with that concept album that I am hugely excited about this. There are some tracks on there that I still listen to regularly. There are songs like Sick of Running is a great song, the orphan song, when they encountered that gang. There are moments that are a little more colorful and flamboyant and whimsical, but there's also this dark undercurrent of serious intensity and real drama that runs throughout it. There's a sort of em queer romance to the thing as well. But this quality of community and found family that materializes in one of my favorite songs on the album towards the End, which is Somewhere in the City, Beautiful song that does that Lin Manuel, Miranda Hamilton thing of combining an intense rap with this soaring vocal refrain. Very much top tier work from him. I want to read you a few more of the quotes that they have in this New York Times piece. Specifically, 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, what do you do when they kill everything you believe in? And I think that that question is a question that all of us are wrestling with in the world right now. And I think that that's something that these characters are really bringing to light for us in the process of trying to get home alive. And I was just talking about that, you know, in multiple senses in terms of what it was invoking. But also, you know, there is this bigger metaphorical meaning to like trying to survive a long and difficult night that can mean something far than literally finding yourselves on the streets of Manhattan. In many ways, I think a lot of people in the world right now, in various parts of the world right now, feel as though they are enduring a long and difficult night, which they hope to survive. Now it is said here that they have continued to flesh out the score since the album was released and now have a more robust opening number, which I think is necessary. They said the show will be primarily sung, but there will be some scenes that are spoken as it is on the album. Miranda, who first saw the film as a child, secured the rights for a stage adaptation some years ago. The idea of warriors as a musical wouldn't leave me alone, he said. One of the reasons I wanted to dramatize it was that original film has every New Yorker's primal fears on screen. Fear of being pursued by the police, fear of getting caught in the wrong neighborhood at night, fear of falling in the train tracks, fear of scary gangs with face paint, miranda said. And then when Issa saw the movie, she said, I'm really interested in the notion of peace. He added, and what I'm proud of on the other side of two years of writing together is the Baby Looks Like Both of Us. It explores those fears and also explores the notion of what does true peace looked like. Gosh, that's beautiful and exciting and explosive as I think the material on the album already is. The one component that we know nothing about yet is the visual staging of all of this the way this is going to be realized. Because much of what it is describing, you know, they are outside and they are on the train tracks and they are traveling through different boroughs of New York. We have to get to Coney island from the Bronx and we are making our way down the Isle of Manhattan pattern. How you actually realize all of that is a really very exciting concept. Are we going to see something on the scale of the Lost Boys with its visual storytelling, or are we going to see something a little more stylized and innovative a la Christopher Ashley's direction of Come From Away? And the answer to that question may lie with the director for this production, Jenny Coons, A New York based director who is described in various pieces across the Internet as a visionary creative director specializing in immersive events and innovative storytelling. A director on the cutting edge of immersive theatre who specializes in bringing diverse artists together to create original cross disciplinary work. Someone disinterested in playing by the rules of traditional theatre, whose productions are rooted in activism and community. A visionary specializing in immersive events and innovative storytelling. Certainly a fascinating choice for this hugely anticipated project, especially considering the fact that she hasn't worked extensively with musical theatre but also has not directed on Broadway, has directed in New York and around the country and in many prestigious spaces, but has worked predominantly thus far, it seems, beyond the realm of commercial theatre. It's going to be very interesting seeing how she harnesses this material and how Broadway embraces her creative presence, because here's the thing, and I hate to keep bringing up the H word, but in a post Hamilton landscape, there is such expectation for this particular show, and you can assume that a fair number of Tony Award nominations, if not wins, are going to be presumed. We'll talk more about the possibility of this in just a moment. But in addition to warriors itself, possibly now being a front runner for Best New Musical, is Jenny Coons now a front runner for Best Director of a Musical? Let's conclude then by speculating about that, as well as casting for this show on broad.
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Broadway. So let's start with casting and I would like to emotionally prepare people for the reality that the Broadway performers whose voices you heard on the concept album are not necessarily going to be performing in the show when it opens on Broadway. Broadway One of the things about doing this as a concept album is that they only need be vocally right for the role. Like I said, I haven't seen the film. I plan to see the film. I will watch it before I see the Broadway show. Don't worry. But my expectation of these characters, my understanding of these characters is that they skewed perhaps a little younger than many of the actors on the album would read on stage. Perhaps I'm entirely wrong about that. And we will get the full complement of performers. There are a couple of them who seem as though they probably could still play these roles on stage, but we will have to wait and find out. There were also a couple of vocalists involved in the album who were not traditionally stage performers, but who have uniquely fascinating vocal talents. I'm going to be very intrigued to find out whether the metal singer Kim Dracula is going to be a part of the Broadway production, because that's a hell of a role and a hell of a sing for whoever does end up doing it. And it is far too early to speculate about casting. It was mentioned in the New York Times piece explicitly supplicitly that Lin Manuel Miranda himself is not going to be a part of the company and there's not really a role for him in it. To be honest, it feels fairly likely that we may see some alumni from some of Lin's previous shows involved in this. It could be a very high caliber cast because of the enthusiasm for this production. You know, the next big musical that he's co written since Hamilton. I wonder if recent first time Tony Award nominee Hannah Cruise, who was a part of Hamilton, could be in this production with her star being on the rise. That would be very exciting, but certainly they are not going to be of talent. I predict at least one Jimmy Awards finalist, maybe two. And if the roles do end up skewing younger, what an exciting platform and launch pad for emerging Broadway talent. One of the real questions is who has the requisite gravitas and presence and status to play the role of Cyrus one, which was portrayed on the album by Lauryn Hill. Meanwhile, for anyone who has listened to the album, which of these roles do you think may be eligible just based on their material at this point Stage for awards nominations, do we think any of them end up going leading? Do they sort of en masse go supporting? Because so much of the central material is democratized among this group. And more to the point, do we think that warriors is now the immediate front runner for Best New Musical? Because just last week we were having a very different conversation and we were considering whether anything could possibly prevent Paddington from taking home that spinning trophy. Now it seems like the 202627 Broadway season season is a real battleground for new musicals. And though Paddington is arriving as this commercial juggernaut, Lin Manuel Miranda, in his most involved creative projects, has a pretty great track record in this category. I would also expect him and Issa Davis to dominate the conversation around the categories of best Original score and best book of a musical. And coming out of what has often been described as a comparatively lackluster Broadway season, it is genuinely very exciting to be heading into one that now has has what feels like two titans really facing off. I mean, who knows, each of these shows could open and, you know, not do as well critically, commercially on Broadway as is being anticipated. I am curious what the marketing rollout for warriors is going to look like, how much they lean into the Hamilton of it all, whether they're going to try and avoid that comparison, or whether they're going to try and really rekindle the extraordinary enthusiasm enthusiasm that emerged around Hamilton's opening on Broadway. It's also going to be fascinating to see whether this embraces or evades its identity as a musical adapted partly from a film. Because, and this is a different conversation for another time that I do want to have soon, it feels as though audiences on either side of the Atlantic are growing increasingly fatigued about the concept of musicals simply based on movies, with the exception to that rule being prestige offerings, which this is certainly shaping up to be. And here's another thing to consider. I mentioned a handful of those Off Broadway shows which may have been looking to try and transfer within this same season to Broadway houses. Do we think that certain productions, new musicals in particular, may be postponing their Broadway plans, having now seen that it's going to be Paddington and Warriors and feeling as though they're not necessarily going to get a look in when it comes to the Tonys? Is this going to make new musicals more excited, more galvanized to go to broad way and succeed in the slipstream of each of these with the concept of a rising tide raising all boats? Or to quote another Lin Manuel Miranda musical, in the pursuit of a Tony Award? Are they instead going to wait for it? Let me know what you think about that and every other aspect of this theatre news recap conversation in the comments section down below. Are you as excited as I am about the warriors on Broadway? What do you think this is going to look like? Are you familiar with Jenny Coon's work as a director previously? And are you going to book tickets when they go on sale? And also, let's try and play a little manifestation game. Do you want to guess an individual who might be cast in this show and then check back in a few weeks or months time and see if you guessed correctly? For now though, that is everything that we know about Warriors. I cannot wait for this. I was already hoping to head back to Broadway next spring, but now I am definitely there. Whereupon I will hopefully be able to bring you my full review of the show on stage if you don't want to miss that, as well as any updates about the musical between now and then, including the release of its cast. Make sure that you're subscribed here on YouTube with the notifications turned out turned on so you find out as soon as I upload a new video. Or you can follow me on podcast platforms or sign up to my free weekly substack email newsletter. In the meantime, thank you for listening. I have been Mickey Joe and as always, I hope that everyone is staying safe and that you have a Stagey Day. For 10 more seconds. I'm Micky Jo Theater oh my God. Hey, thanks for watching. Have a stagey day.
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Podcast: MickeyJoTheatre
Host: Mickey Jo
Date: June 25, 2026
In this episode, theatre critic Mickey Jo shares breaking news and deep analysis about the forthcoming Broadway production of Warriors, a new musical co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Issa Davis. Mickey Jo discusses why the project is a seismic event for Broadway, how the show departs from its film source material, and its potential to become a landmark on par with Hamilton. The episode is filled with industry insight, Broadway history, speculation about the upcoming Tony Awards, and thoughtful engagement with the show's creative team, creative choices, and casting possibilities.
On the significance of the project:
“A new musical that could potentially live up to the hype of Hamilton.”
(Mickey Jo, 02:20)
On the all-female creative choice:
“They have taken this predominantly male story… and they have turned it into an all-female gang… setting themselves apart from the original source material and the male-dominated stories of Lost Boys and The Outsiders.”
(Mickey Jo, 15:03)
On the one-act structure:
“This is going to be a one-act musical without an intermission… likely 100, 110 minutes of uninterrupted musical theatre, which feels like a good choice for retaining the intensity.”
(Mickey Jo, 17:56)
On thematic resonance:
“What do you do when they kill everything you believe in? … That question is a question all of us are wrestling with in the world right now.”
(Issa Davis, quoted by Mickey Jo, 20:09)
On the director’s significance:
“Jenny Koons… has worked predominantly beyond commercial theatre. It's going to be very interesting seeing how she harnesses this material and how Broadway embraces her creative presence.”
(Mickey Jo, 22:20)
“Are you as excited as I am about Warriors on Broadway? What do you think this is going to look like? Are you familiar with Jenny Koons’s work? … Let’s try and play a little manifestation game. Do you want to guess an individual who might be cast in this show, and then check back in a few weeks or months’ time and see if you guessed correctly?”
(Mickey Jo, 26:45)
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