Avett Brothers Musical ‘Swept Away’ Becomes Fall Season’s Second New Broadway Musical To Fail
deadline.comSwept Away, the new musical featuring songs by The Avett Brothers to tell a shipwreck tale of survival and sacrifice, will close its Broadway run on Sunday, December 15, just a month after opening at the Longacre Theatre.
The $14.5 million show, which stars John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall, will have played 20 previews and 32 regular performances at the time of its closing.
Swept Away began performances on October 29 with an official opening on November 19. Producers Matthew Masten, Sean Hudock and Madison Wells Live announced the closing, noting, “We are deeply proud of this beautiful production and the years of work that it took to get to Broadway.
We will forever be indebted to our fantastic creative team, our loyal actors and all of our co-producers and in turn their investors, for believing in this production and taking a risk on new work.” The musical received mixed reviews from critics, with some, including Deadline and The New York Times, championing the work, but others emphasizing the downbeat nature of the story.
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