Working together even if you are direct competition - technically...

In a posting last month I talked about the restructuring or the possiblilties of resource sharing. Here is a great example taking a co-production a bit further than the norm with two great nonprofits teaming up!


Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard team 'Burnt Part Boys' opens spring 2010
By DAVID ROONEY

Off Broadway stalwarts Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theater will team for the first time to co-produce the musical "The Burnt Part Boys," scheduled to bow in spring 2010 following two developmental productions.Written by Mariana Elder with music by Chris Miller and lyrics by Nathan Tysen, the show is set in West Virginia in 1962. Coming-of-age story traces the odyssey of a group of teenagers whose fathers were killed years earlier in a tragic coal-mining accident. Erica Schmidt ("Humor Abuse") will direct.

The tuner has been the subject of Gotham transfer rumors since it was first seen in summer 2006 as part of the Barrington Stage Musical Theater Lab. The Vineyard will further workshop "Burnt Part" in a developmental staging running May 26-June 6, followed by a summer presentation as part of New York Stage and Film on the Vassar College campus. The official premiere will take place in 2010 at Playwrights.

Both Playwrights and the Vineyard have a history of shepherding unconventional musicals, the former with shows such as "Grey Gardens" and "Sunday in the Park with George" and the latter with "Avenue Q" and "[title of show]," among others.