"THE BURNT PART BOYS" OPENS OFF-BROADWAY MAY 25
Published 2010-05-25
Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theatre co-produce the new musical The Burnt Part Boys, opening TONIGHT, MAY 26, 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.
Previews began April 30.The project was also developed at Barrington Stage Company (in a full production) and at New York Stage & Film at Vassar in recent years.
The limited engagement runs through June 13 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater.
The cast of The Burnt Part Boys features Brady (South Pacific) as conflicted older brother Jake, an 18-year-old miner who has had to fill his father's shoes; Calderon (13) as feisty Pete, who wants to destroy to old mine; Andrew Durand (Spring Awakening, Yank!) as Jake's miner pal, Chet, who may be a company man the rest of his life; Steve French (Manifesto at Second Stage) as Miner Tinns; Noah Galvin (Cirque du Soleil's Wintuk) as Pete's lumpy, awkward pal Dusty, the William Finn-style comic relief (who plays a musical saw and eats marshmallow Peeps); Michael Park (Smokey Joe's Café, three-time Daytime Emmy nominee as Jack Snyder on "As the World Turns"); Molly Ranson (August: Osage County) as a runaway girl, Frances, whose father also died years ago; Randy Redd (Some Men, Parade, Ring of Fire) as Frances' ghostly father, Miner Boggs; and Asa Somers (Grey Gardens, Next to Normal) as Miner Taylor.
Orchestrations are by Tony Award winner Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza). Vadim Feichtner (...Spelling Bee) serves as music director.
The Burnt Part Boys features scenic design by Brian Prather, costume design by Elizabeth Flauto, lighting design by Chris Lee and sound design by Lindsay Jones. Production stage manager is Lori Lundquist.
The performance schedule for The Burnt Part Boys is Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2:30 PM & 8 PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM. Tickets are $70.
Tickets may be purchased online via TicketCentral.com, by phone at (212) 279-4200 (noon-8 PM daily), or in person at the Ticket Central Box Office, 416 West 42nd Street
(between Ninth &Tenth Avenues).
For more information/tickets click here
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