“SWEPT AWAY” OPENS ON BROADWAY WITH SURPRISE PERFORMANCE BY THE AVETT BROTHERS
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FOR RELEASE ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2024
THE SEA, FOR ALL OF ITS BEAUTY
IS JUST THE GREAT UNKOWN
THE AVETT BROTHERS’
NEW MUSICAL
“SWEPT AWAY”
OPENS ON BROADWAY
THE AVETT BROTHERS
JOIN THE CAST FOR SPECIAL CURTAIN CALL CONCERT
Photo by Alyssa Greenberg.
New York, NY (November 20, 2024) – Last night, the popular folk-rock band The Avett Brothers helped raise the curtain of the new musical Swept Away at the Longacre Theatre (220 W 48th St) – for which they provided music & lyrics – with a surprise post-show concert with the cast members John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, and Wayne Duvall.
To download video from the opening night, click here.
To download photos from opening night, click here.
In attendance on opening night were Clive Davis, Alexander Skarsgård, Anna Wintour, Brooke Shields, Sara Bareilles, Patricia Clarkson, Will Butler, Amanda Seyfried & Thomas Sadoski, Lena Headey & Marc Menchaca, Edie Falco, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Lauren Pritchard, Richard Schiff, Jennifer Nettles, Rachel Chavkin, Billy Porter, Betsy Wolfe, Stephen Root, Alex Timbers, Jessica Vosk, Alex Newell, Matt Doyle, Gideon Glick, Peter Friedman, Tom Kitt, Justin Peck, Jeanine Tesori, Ryann Redmond, Corey & Casey Cott, and many more.
To download production photos, please click here.
Tickets are available for purchase at www.sweptawaymusical.com and Telecharge at www.telecharge.com, or by calling 212-239-6200 or 800-447-7400.
From the chart-topping folk-rock band The Avett Brothers comes “a spellbinding tale” (The Washington Post) of shipwreck, salvation and brotherhood set on the high seas.
An odyssey of “mythic proportions” (San Francisco Chronicle), Swept Away features a book by Tony Award® winner John Logan (Red, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), direction by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and choreography by Tony Award nominee David Neumann (Hadestown).
The Swept Away ensemble includes Josh Breckenridge, Hunter Brown, Matt DeAngelis, Cameron Johnson, Brandon Kalm, Rico LeBron, Michael J. Mainwaring, Orville Mendoza, Chase Peacock, Tyrone L. Robinson, David Rowen and John Sygar. Swings include John Michael Finley and Robert Pendilla.
The Swept Away creative team includes Tony Award-winning set designer Rachel Hauck, Tony Award-winning costume designer Susan Hilferty, four-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams, Tony Award-winning sound designer John Shivers, music arranger & orchestrator Chris Miller, music arranger & orchestrator/music supervisor Brian Usifer, music director Will Van Dyke, and casting director Jim Carnahan, Jillian Cimini, and Alexandre Bleau, CSA.
Swept Away is produced on Broadway by Matthew Masten, Sean Hudock and Madison Wells Live with Louise Gund and Kate Cannova. Wagner Johnson Productions serve as Executive Producers.
Swept Away had sold out regional runs at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in early 2022, which was thrice extended, and at Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C. in the winter of 2023, as the highest grossing show in their Kreeger Theater. In total, Swept Away has captivated audiences from 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) and all over the globe as far as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Japan.
World Premiere producer in 2022 by Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Johanna Phaelzer, Artistic Director; Susan Medak, Managing Director)
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