Lin-Manuel Miranda is on his way back to Broadway! 

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich, directed by Alex Timbers, will play a 10-week limited engagement at the Hudson Theatre with performances beginning December 11, but Miranda will lead the rotating cast for the final five weeks, January 14-February 16, 2025.

Miranda visited The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon December 2 to share some wisdom ahead of Fallon's Broadway debut in the very same show; Fallon will join Miranda in the comedy January 28, and perform through February 2.

"I have a great cautionary tale about the Broadway debut; my Broadway debut was in 2008 with a show called In the Heights," says a smiling Miranda as the audience cheers. "I had written the show, and I was in the show, and I made the mistake of having everyone I love the most in the front row for the first preview. And here's the thing. That's not a good audience. They're so scared for you, and so worried about you, that instead of being like, 'Yay! This is a great show',  it's like–have you ever seen a professional tennis player's parents?" Miranda crouches back in his seat, bracing with tension as he rubs roughly against his temple. "Imagine a front row of that. It was bad."

While on the program, Miranda also discussed his work with Disney, including Mufasa: The Lion King and Encanto, and his recent concept album for he and Eisa Davis's adaptation of 1979 cult film The Warriors. 

"So, I saw it when I was 4," Miranda confesses. "An unsupervised youth, was I. A friend had a VHS cassette, and it was one of those things, like, 'Have you seen this movie? It's about this gang, they have to fight their way from the Bronx all the way down to Brooklyn,' which is like kind of an ultimate New Yorker movie? You see it quoted in a million hip-hop songs, and in pop culture a lot, but I saw it when I was really young, and like a little baby duck, I imprinted on it. And so Eisa Davis (who's an incredible playwright and performer) and I have spent the past three years musicalizing the film into this 26-song concept album."

At the same time Miranda was writing for Nas, Busta Rhymes, and Lauryn Hill on the concept album, he was also delivering songs for Mufasa to Disney.

"Honestly, I think working on Mufasa raised the bar for me, because stepping into the world of The Lion King... that original album is all bangers, no skips. It's only 5 songs. Everyone forgets that the original movie is only 5 songs. "Circle of Life," "I Just Can't Wait to be King," "Be Prepared," "Hakuna [frickin'] Matata," and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight."  No skips. I went into every song in Mufasa with that energy, that it had to be a no-skips album, and I think that carried over into Warriors. No skips or filler allowed."

To see Miranda discuss Mufasa in depth, including how he was goaded into writing a villain song, check out the full interview above.