By Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Berkeley Rep’s world premiere of Swept Away, a stage production featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, written by Moulin Rouge!‘s John Logan and reteaming Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer and star John Gallagher Jr, has been postponed for a year to summer 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
With its high-profile creative team and cast (Kinky Boots‘ Stark Sands will co-star), the new musical’s development has already drawn considerable New York attention.
Gallagher himself released a video today announcing the postponement and the reasoning behind it. (Watch it below.) “This week I was set to begin rehearsals for a brand new musical, Swept Away, with a tremendous book by the great
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