There’s an old-fashioned adventure yarn being told off-Broadway, and it’s called The Burnt Part Boys. Set in a mining town in West Virginia, this new musical centers on four appealing young characters (brothers who are 14 and 18 years old and their respective best friends) and their reaction to the news that a deadly mine is being reopened ...

Though the new musical The Burnt Part Boys is set in 1962, it tells a story as contemporary as today’s headlines: the heartbreaking legacy of a mine accident in West Virginia and its effects on the family members left behind. A joint production of two off-Broadway companies (Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theatre), the new show opened on May ...

A musical with a startlingly timely theme is headed off-Broadway: Tickets are now available for The Burnt Part Boys, co-produced by Playwrights Horizons and The Vineyard Theatre. Previews begin on April 30 at Playwrights Horizons, with opening night set for May 25, directed by Joe Calarco.

Set in West Virginia in 1962, The Burnt Part Boys follows a group of ...

Have you heard about The Burnt Part Boys yet? If not, you will. The new musical by composer Chris Miller, lyricist Nathan Tysen and book writer Mariana Elder follows the story of a group of teenagers in rural Virginia after their fathers are killed in a 1950s coal mining accident. When news comes 10 years after the tragedy that the ...

Joe Calarco has been tapped to direct the forthcoming off-Broadway musical The Burnt Part Boys, a unique co-production by Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theatre. The musical is slated for a spring 2010 mounting at Playwrights Horizons. Calarco, who directed an earlier lab production of the musical for Barrington Stage Company, succeeds Erica Schmidt, who has stepped down “by mutual ...

Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theatre will jointly produce the new musical The Burnt Part Boys in the spring of 2010. The two off-Broadway companies announced an innovative development schedule for the show, which features a book by Mariana Elder, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and music by Chris Miller, nd will be directed by Erica Schmidt.

The Burnt Part Boys ...