Swept Away, the musical with music and lyrics by roots rock band The Avett Brothers, will arrive on Broadway this fall following earlier stagings at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington’s Arena Stage.
Although the Broadway manufacturing can be at a Shubert theater, a venue and particular manufacturing dates are but to be launched.
The Broadway staging was introduced by The Avett Brothers throughout a live performance Friday at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.
Swept Away contains a guide by Tony Award winner John Logan (Red, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), route by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and choreography by Tony Award nominee David Neumann (Hadestown).
The synopsis: Set in 1888, Swept Away follows 4 survivors – a younger man searching for journey, his massive brother who has sworn to guard him, a captain on the finish of an extended profession at sea, and a cosmopolitan first mate who has fallen from grace – after a violent storm sinks their whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts. How far will they go to remain alive? And can they reside with the implications?
Although Broadway casting has not formally been confirmed, the Avett Brothers on Friday welcomed to the live performance stage the principal actors from the Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage productions – John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall – introducing the actors because the “the cast of the soon-to-be-officially Broadway show.”
The Swept Away artistic workforce contains music arranger & orchestrator Chris Miller, music arranger & orchestrator/music supervisor Brian Usifer, music director Will Van Dyke, set designer Rachel Hauck, costume designer Susan Hilferty, lighting designer Kevin Adams, and sound designer John Shivers.
Swept Away is produced by Matthew Masten, Sean Hudock, and Madison Wells Live and govt produced by Wagner Johnson Productions.