History’s eye was just as keen in the late 2000s, as the glow of the election of the country’s first Black president pierced the dust and smoke of the 2008 financial crisis, and in the same moment Lin-Manuel Miranda was conceiving and drafting his smash musical that portrayed the founder of the federal banking system as a scrappy rapper on the come up.

From In the Heights to Hamilton, New York City – with its frenetic pulse and intoxicating contradictions – has been an intrinsic part of Lin-Manuel Miranda's artistic palette. Even so, the EGT-winning musical mastermind is likely to confound more than a few fans with his and Eisa Davis' new project: Warriors,