The Burnt Part Boys
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 25, 2010
Closed Jun 13, 2010
Opened May 25, 2010
Closed Jun 13, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theatre co-produce the new musical The Burnt Part Boys, by Mariana Elder, Chris Miller, and Nathan Tysen. Direction and musical staging is by Joe Calarco.
Rural West Virginia, 1962. Fourteen year-old Pete's fighting to claim his past. His older brother Jake's hoping to forge a future. With its soaring, elegiac score and eclectic band of youngsters teetering on the brink of adulthood, this inspirational new musical from an acclaimed new team finds both the streaks of light and the heart of darkness within us all.
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The potential for the new musical The Burnt Part Boys, now being presented at Playwrights Horizons (in a co-production with the Vineyard Theatre), to sear into theatergoers' hearts is staggering. So it's sad to report that the tuner is merely a quaintly wan echo of familiar and more successful coming-of-age stories.
Set in West Virginia in 1962, the show centers on a group of young people whose fathers died in a coal mining accident 10 years prior to the start of the action. Given recent headlines from the region about similar events and loss of life, one would naturally assume that the musical would resonate intensely today -- perhaps even more so than bookwriter Mariana Elder, lyricist [...]