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Joe Calarco will now direct the musical The Burnt Part Boys, to be co-produced by the Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons at the latter venue in Spring 2010. He replaces the previously announced Erica Schmidt, whom a press statement says "is not continuing with the production by mutual agreement."

The show features a book by Mariana Elder with lyrics by Nathan Tysen and music by Chris Miller. Set in West Virginia in 1962, the musical follows a group of teenagers whose fathers were killed ten years earlier in a tragic coal mining accident. Casting will be announced at a later date.

Calarco is the adaptor/director of Shakespeare's R&J, and previously worked with Miller and Tysen directing their Drama Desk-nominated song cycle Fugitive Songs. Additional New York directorial credits include Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Boy, and Bury the Dead.

For more information, visit www.playwrightshorizons.org or www.vineyardtheatre.org.