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“Swept Away,” a brand new musical that includes songs by the Americana band the Avett Brothers, is planning to open on Broadway this fall, following productions in California and Washington.
The musical is impressed by a once-famous shipwreck: In 1884, a British yacht known as the Mignonette was wrecked at sea, and the four-man crew’s determined efforts to outlive, which included cannibalism, led to a protracted and influential authorized battle. The particulars of the ordeal have been modified for “Swept Away,” which is about in 1888 on a whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Mass.
Much of the musical’s rating is drawn from “Mignonette,” a 2004 Avett Brothers album impressed by the shipwreck. But the rating additionally consists of songs from 4 different Avett Brothers albums and an unique track the band wrote for the stage present.
The band introduced that the musical could be coming to Broadway throughout a live performance on Friday night time at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. Some of the actors who’ve carried out in earlier iterations of the present joined them onstage.
The musical encompasses a guide by John Logan, who received a Tony Award for writing “Red.” The director is Michael Mayer, who received a Tony for guiding “Spring Awakening.”
The present has had two earlier productions, in 2022 at Berkeley Repertory Theater in California, and final winter at Arena Stage in Washington. Thomas Floyd, a critic for The Washington Post, known as it “transfixing” and mentioned “this morality story launches with toe-tapping propulsion earlier than anchoring for an intimate elegy on grief and guilt.”
A spokesman mentioned the musical would open this fall at a Shubert theater, however mentioned the manufacturing was not prepared to verify the precise timing or location. The principal actors from the earlier productions — John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall — joined the Avett Brothers onstage Friday night time, and have been launched as “the solid of the soon-to-be-officially Broadway present.”
The Broadway run shall be produced by Matthew Masten, Sean Hudock, and Madison Wells Live (based by Gigi Pritzker, a billionaire movie producer).
