LMM working on THE WARRIORS musical?- Page 2

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/1/24 at 3:13pm

RUkiddingme said: "David Patrick Kelly

As a young man he was in Warriors film.

Since then he has been in many musicals from Once to Into The Woods to Once Upon AMattress.

I hope there is a part for him in a Warriors musical."
 

DPK is at the top of my list for "people who've never been nominated for a Tony but deserve to win a Tony." Always great on stage and in David Lynch movies and so versatile.

Updated On: 8/1/24 at 03:13 PM

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 8/1/24 at 3:28pm

Since this is coming out as a concept album first, does anyone have rumors/guesses on who would be on it?  LMM's usual suspects or do we think he'll work with new people?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 8/1/24 at 3:49pm

chrishuyen said: "Since this is coming out as a concept album first, does anyone have rumors/guesses on who would be on it? LMM's usual suspects or do we think he'll work with new people?"

The press release promises a "star-studded" group of performers and I am sure that does not merely mean theatre folk (but probably doesn't mean there won't be theatre folk, like Chris Jackson, on it). Lin has the ability to get a wide assortment of people from the pop music world for the album.

Wonder if other frequent collaborators like Alex Lacamoire and/or Bill Sherman are involved?

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/1/24 at 4:02pm

With the producers on board it seems, to me, that he is going for a harder rap edge with this. I will be interested in who they will have on this recording and hearing it.  JMO

[JSquared2]

Posted: 8/1/24 at 4:12pm

chrishuyen said: "Since this is coming out as a concept album first, does anyone have rumors/guesses on who would be on it? LMM's usual suspects or do we think he'll work with new people?"

 

I think it's a safe bet that LOJ will NOT be on it.

 

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 8/15/24 at 9:12pm

Initial cast announced: Marc Anthony, Luis Figueroa, Flaco Navaja, and Chris Rivers

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 8/15/24 at 9:41pm

That is the cast for the concept album only, not the actual show. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/15/24 at 10:40pm

And these aren't even the leads, unless he's massively reconfigured the story: this is one of the rival gangs on the prowl in the post-apocalyptic/seventies NYC hellscape.

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/22/24 at 1:40pm

Excited that Michaela Jae' will be a part of this.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 8/23/24 at 12:02pm

Further cast for album announced: Billy Porter, Mykal Kilgore, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Casey Likes, Ghostface Killah, RZA & more

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 8/29/24 at 12:16pm

Colman Domingo, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly join album cast

[RUkiddingme]

Posted: 8/29/24 at 1:01pm

LMM includes David Patrick Kelly AND James Remar on the Warriors project.

One more reason to respect LMM!  He has great respect for the past.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 9/5/24 at 12:30pm

Nas, Kim Dracula, Alex Boniello and Shenseea join the album

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 9/13/24 at 9:21am

Busta Rhymes, Joshua Henry, Timothy Hughes, Daniel Jikal join the album

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 10:21am

Meet the WARRIORS!

Starring: @aneesafolds as Cleon

@sashahutchings as Cowgirl

@minanina81 as Cochise

@phillipasoo as Fox

@lia_man as Mercy

@jazzy_joness as Swan

@gizeljimenezofficial as Rembrandt

@glambergray as Ajax

[RSrichie]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 1:09pm

I was very excited about this.  But ALL female gangs in NYC just doesn’t make sense.  I find this very disappointing.  It’s just PC BS over reality.  It’s not sexism, it’s just realistic about gangs in The Bronx.  

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 1:18pm

RSrichie said: "I was very excited about this. But ALL female gangs in NYC just doesn’t make sense. I find this very disappointing. It’s just PC BS over reality. It’s not sexism, it’s just realistic about gangs in The Bronx."

Maybe you should wait before passing judgment on something you haven't seen yet....

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 1:32pm

RSrichie said: "I was very excited about this. But ALL female gangs in NYC just doesn’t make sense. I find this very disappointing. It’s just PC BS over reality. It’s not sexism, it’s just realistic about gangs in The Bronx. "

The movie had an all-female gang...

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 1:40pm

Nothing much to add here except that Michael Beck and Deborah Van Valkenburgh were the sexiest duo in all of 70's American cinema.  It needed to be said. 
 

Updated On: 9/18/24 at 01:40 PM

[RSrichie]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 2:04pm

The movie had an all-female gang...

I’m all for that…

 

[RSrichie]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 2:57pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Turning The Warriors into a musical totally misses the point, the book was written as a explicite response to West Side Story"

I have no doubt LMM knows that and will be writing it as a response to WSS and the novel and the film and all that’s followed between then and now."

The screenplay is so much better than the book.  The book has a lot of uninteresting backstory.  The screenplay was just the action.  

[RUkiddingme]

Posted: 9/19/24 at 12:09am

RSrichie said: "I was very excited about this. But ALL female gangs in NYC just doesn’t make sense. I find this very disappointing. It’s just PC BS over reality. It’s not sexism, it’s just realistic about gangs in The Bronx."

I'm with you!

Horrible choice!  The testosterone in Warriors was a huge part of the film!

A musical adaptation of a 70’s movie with a girl gang is called Switchblade Sisters!

Switchblade Sisters Official Trailer | ARROW (youtube.com)

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 9/20/24 at 11:05am

Track listing for the album, per LMM's Instagram:

Book One

• A Side

1. SURVIVE THE NIGHT (Featuring the Five Boroughs & DJ Lynne Pen)
2. ROLL CALL
3. WARRIORS' CYPHER
4. MAKE WAY FOR CYRUS (Featuring the Gramercy Riffs)
5. IF YOU CAN COUNT
6. DERAILED
7. WOODLAWN CEMETARY

• B Side

1. LEAVE THE BROX ALIVE (Featuring the Turnbull ACs)
2. A TRACK FIRE & A PHONE CALL
3. GOING DOWN (Featuring Luther & Cropsy of the Rogues)
4. ORPHAN TOWN (Featuring the Orphans & Mercy)
5. CALL ME MERCY
6. STILL BREATHIN' (Featuring Masai)
7. QUIET GIRLS (Featuring the Hurricanes)​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Book Two

• C Side

1. ​​​​​​​OUTSIDE GRAY's PAPAYA (Featuring the Baseball Furies)
2. SICK OF RUNNIN
3. THE PARK AT NIGHT
4. LUTHER INTERLUDE
5. CARDIGANS
6. WE GOT YOU (Featuring the Bizzies)
7. A LIGHT OR SOMETHIN'
8. WE GOT YOU (Reprise)

• ​​​​​​​D SIDE

1. ​​​​​​​SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY
2. REUNION SQUARE (Featuring New York's Finest)
3. SAME TRAIN HOME ( Featuring DJ Lynne Pen)
4. FINALE
   1. ​​​​​​​PART 1: THE WONDER WHEEL
   2. PART 2: THE CONEY ISLAND SHORE
   3. PART 3: WHEN WE ALL COME HOME ALIVE

Updated On: 9/20/24 at 11:05 AM

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 9/20/24 at 9:10pm

Just spotted the DJ's name. Lovely tribute to Lynn Thigpen, Lin! <3

[joevitus]

Posted: 9/20/24 at 11:00pm

darquegk said: "I rewatched it recently and I could see it going either way. The era-ambiguous “dystopia next door” and the heightened almost surrealism of it has promise."

The movie already is a musical, essentially. The gang members strut around like dancers. It strikes me as an absolutely terrible idea, but so does turning The Outsiders into a musical, and apparently the entire world disagrees with me.