“SWEPT AWAY” RELEASES FIRST MUSIC VIDEO FEATURING THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
I WANT MY SOUL TO FEEL BRAND NEW
“SWEPT AWAY”
SHARES FIRST OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO OF
“A GIFT FOR MELODY ANNE”
SUNG BY THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST
TO WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO, CLICK HERE
PREVIEWS BEGIN ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
AT THE LONGACRE THEATRE
New York, NY (October 18, 2024) — Today, producers Matthew Masten, Sean Hudock, and Madison Wells Live, released a music video of “A Gift for Melody Anne” from The Avett Brothers’ new musical Swept Away which will begin performances on Tuesday, October 29 at the Longacre Theatre (220 W 48th St). Swept Away’s official opening will be on Tuesday, November 19.
To watch the video sung by Tony Award® winner John Gallagher Jr., Tony Award nominee Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, and Wayne Duvall, 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, Tyrone L. Robinson, and John Sygar. Swings include John Michael Finley, Chase Peacock, Robert Pendilla, and David Rowen.
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.
To download photos of the cast and creative team in rehearsals, please click here.
To download cast headshots, please click here.
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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