Third Street Theatre announces West Coast premiere of “The Burnt Part Boys”

LOS ANGELES - Aug. 15, 2013 - PRLog -- The West Coast premiere of an unforgettable coming-of-age musical that follows the adventures of a group of teenagers deep in West Virginia's coal country as they take a life-altering journey to “the burnt part” – the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Fourteen-year-old Pete, his older brother Jake and a band of friends embark on a life-altering journey to the coal mine that took their father's lives. With its soaring score inflected with the rich sounds of the Appalachia region, this inspirational new musical finds the streaks of light and the heart of darkness within us all.

“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says director Richard Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”

The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”

The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays @ 8 p.m. and Sundays @ 2 p.m. from Sept. 14 through Oct. 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket - use promo code KIDS. The Third Street Theatre is located at 8115 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles CA 90048. For reservations, call 323-655-9232 or go to www.thirdstreettheatre.org (http://www.domatheatre.com/).