LMM working on THE WARRIORS musical? — Page 8

I really cannot imagine this not being eligible for Best Score. I had always understood the score to be a Broadway-bound property with the concept album as a way to drive interest and development.

AIDA had a concept album released before the show premiered on Broadway and was still eligible and won. This will be fine.

Probably the most striking example is The Who’s Tommy, which won Best Score (tying with Kiss of the Spider Woman) in 1993, nearly 25 years after the album was released.

Perhaps a slightly different situation since it originated on television rather than on record, but the majority of Schmigadoon’s Tony-winning score was previously released as well.

halfhourcheckwithmerman said: "Aren't there many examples of this? CHESS, EVITA, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, HADESTOWN?"

The first 3 of those came out before the rule-change about being "written for the theatre" and the "classics" rule.

Before that rule-change, it was a lawless time where basically anything new-to-Broadway was deemed eligible for Best Score, such as TOMMY, GIGI, SEVEN BRIDES, and the extremely-posthumous noms/wins for R&H (State Fair), T.S. Eliot (Cats), and perhaps most egregiously Scott Joplin (Treemonisha, nominated 60 years after his death).

Updated On: 8/7/26 at 01:13 PM

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "The first 3 of those came out before the rule-change about being "written for the theatre" and the "classics" rule.

Before that rule-change, it was a lawless time where basically anything new-to-Broadway was deemed eligible for Best Score, such asTOMMY, GIGI,SEVEN BRIDES, and the extremely-posthumous noms/wins for R&H(State Fair), T.S. Eliot (Cats), and perhaps most egregiously Scott Joplin (Treemonisha, nominated 60 years after his death)."

I didn't know this! Thank you!

Kad said: "I remain surprised that Schmigadoon was deemed eligible and even more surprised that voters went for it. I guess it speaks to how weak the support for the other scores was this year."

I agree. And the voters are only supposed to consider the new elements (meaning, no song that was in the TV show) ---- but of course there's no way to enforce that. And the voters clearly liked Schmig more than I did.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Kad said: "I remain surprised that Schmigadoon was deemed eligible and even more surprised that voters went for it. I guess it speaks to how weak the support for the other scores was this year."

I agree. And the voters are only supposed to consider the new elements (meaning, no song that was in the TV show) ---- but of course there's no way to enforce that. And the voters clearly liked Schmig more than I did."

I think once you get over the eligibility hurdle, you're completely on equal footing with all other scores. Most voters won't know or care about what is new versus preexisting, and they'll vote for you if they liked the score as a whole. Newsies is a great example - I'm sure that score won because voters liked all the songs from the movie, not because of the strength of the new material.

KevinKlawitter said: "It probably helps that the album was pretty clearly a large-scale proof of concept that was always intended to make it to the stage anyway."

I also thought about this as big-scale both the concept album and the material is, in many ways it’s also a very intimate piece. Think about it: most of the entire show takes place in a subway car with a gang on the run so if I were in Jenny Koons or Andy’s shoes as a director I might wanna incorporate some onstage seating/standing areas ala Jellicle Ball and Every Brilliant Thing as well as JCS and very soon RENT in the West End. I would also consider collaborating with different street dance choreographers throughout the city for each gang the warriors come across. One name id love to see is Kyla Bullings for the Rogues

Yeah I’m curious about dates too. Obviously us has to open before Tony cut offs but I’m going in early April and this is one of the shows I want to see just wondering if I will be seeing it in previews or not

TheatreFan4 said: "malcs98 said: "Think about it: most of theentire show takes place in a subway car with a gang on the runso"

Am I crazy, but no it doesn't? There are sections on a subway car, but that's not the bulk of the setting..."

I mean yes sure…but it is in a way an intimate character piece for a musical…where it feels like ur on a subway car with them.