The musical is set to begin performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on the 9th March, with official opening night set for 8th April.
Initial casting has now been confirmed for Warriors, which features book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis.
Based on the Paramount Pictures film directed by Walter Hill and book by Sol Yurick, the musical is set to star: Jaci Calderon, Aneesa Folds, Amber Gray, Julia Harriman, Sasha Hutchings, Gizel Jiménez, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Kenita R. Miller, Sasha Allen, Casey Likes, and Donald Webber Jr. Complete casting will be announced soon.
When the Warriors, a fictitious gang from Coney Island, are framed for the shocking murder of a respected leader, Cyrus, at a summit in the Bronx, they must race to get home to Coney Island to prove their innocence and save Cyrus’ hope for peace in a perilous city.
Warriors is directed by Jenny Koons and co-directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler.
‘We’re having the time of our lives making Warriors. It’s a rollercoaster like the Coney Island Cyclone, with all the action of Walter Hill’s classic film. It’s a New York story to the bone, with music steeped in all the genres that were born and revolutionized here, from hip-hop to salsa to ska and metal and everything in between. It’s an edge-of-your-seat journey from Brooklyn to the Bronx and back again. It’s a dream of a more peaceful city where we all come home alive. This is the sound of something being born,’ said Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis.