Lin-Manuel Miranda is engaged on this new Broadway musical: supply

Broadway gained’t should “look ahead to it” for much longer.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is tough at work on a brand new stage musical, a supply advised The Submit. 

The “Hamilton” author’s newest can be an adaptation of Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel “The Warriors,” about violent gang battles in New York Metropolis through the sixties, the individual close to the Miranda household mentioned.

Miranda’s workforce didn’t reply to The Submit’s a number of requests for remark.

The sundown-to-sunrise story — which spans Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx — is sensible for the lifelong New Yorker with a number of hits already set in his hometown: “In The Heights” and, in fact, “Hamilton.”

Miranda, 43, hasn’t unveiled a brand new present of his personal since “Hamilton” premiered downtown on the Public Theater eight years in the past and have become a worldwide phenomenon.

After that American Revolution musical — Broadway’s largest success in years — he contributed lyrics to the not too long ago shuttered “New York, New York,” and wrote the songs for the Disney motion pictures “Moana” and “Encanto,” together with some new tunes for the live-action “The Little Mermaid.” 

His Tony Award-winning “Within the Heights” was become a Warner Bros. film, and he directed Netflix’s musical movie “Tick, Tick… Growth!”.

As Broadway’s solely movie star composer (who’s not a pop singer), a model new musical by Miranda could be an instantaneous draw for ticket-buyers and a significant coup for the struggling theater enterprise.

A premiere date and site will not be but identified, although a tryout of the present could be a boon for the Public Theater, which was not too long ago compelled to put off 19% of its employees and slash programming for budgetary causes.

Wherever it lands, he’s picked an interesting title.

Some viewers will keep in mind the culty 1979 movie “The Warriors,” which is enjoyable to observe now for its genuine pictures of the dangerous previous days of New York Metropolis. Trains are lined in graffiti, gang members of all totally different races and ethnicities put on humorous matching costumes and the presentation is hyperstylized. 

New Yorker critic Pauline Kael adored the movie, writing that it embodies the “spirit of urban-male tribalism and the sentiments of children who imagine that they personal the streets as a result of they preserve different youngsters out of them.”

However Yurick hated it. His novel is far grittier, and he wrote it partly to rebuke the shiny picture of gangs put forth by the musical “West Facet Story,” which opened on Broadway eight years prior. 

The novelist, who died in 2013, shadowed actual gangs across the metropolis for analysis, and even walked by darkish subway tunnels on the tracks late at night time. His ensuing e-book was, itself, impressed by the traditional Greek struggle story “Anabasis.”

All of that’s tough material for Broadway, to make certain, however Miranda has a approach with discovering the musical core of unlikely subjects, be it Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton or the each day struggles of a Washington Heights bodega proprietor. 

“The Warriors,” appropriately for the thoughts behind “Hamilton,” takes place on July 4. 

It’s not but identified if Miranda will make the brand new present sung-through, like “Hamilton,” or characteristic a script written by one other playwright, like “Within the Heights” by Quiara Alegría Hudes.

However no collaborator, director, producer, investor or theater landlord will say “no” to this.