Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis on their 'Warriors' musical concept album with Lauryn Hill
Lin-Manuel Miranda argues most New Yorkers have an answer to the following question: When did you first see “The Warriors”
NEW YORK (AP) — Most New Yorkers, Lin-Manuel Miranda argues, have an answer to the following question: When did you first see “The Warriors”?
“I saw it when I was 4 years old, an unsupervised youth was I. A friend’s older brother had the VHS. There were no adults around,” he told The Associated Press. “Everything you’re scared of as a New Yorker, growing up in the city, is in that movie.”
The 1979 cult classic follows a street gang as they make their way from the Bronx to their home turf of Coney Island amid an all-out blitz. The group is wrongly accused of murdering another gang's leader, the peace-seeking Cyrus of the Gramercy Riffs.
On Oct. 18, Miranda — in his first full post-"Hamilton" musical — and the award-winning actor and playwright Eisa Davis will release “Warriors,” a musical concept album inspired by the film, with some notable departures.
