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Avett Brothers Musical ‘Swept Away’ Heading To Broadway This Fall
Swept Away, the musical with music and lyrics by roots rock band The Avett Brothers, will arrive on Broadway this fall.
The Broadway staging was announced by The Avett Brothers during a concert Friday at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. The synopsis: Set in 1888, Swept Away follows four survivors – a young man in search of adventure, his big brother who has sworn to protect him, a captain at the end of a long career at sea, and a worldly first mate who has fallen from grace – after a violent storm sinks their whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Although Broadway casting has not officially been confirmed, the Avett Brothers on Friday welcomed to the concert 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 as the “the cast of the soon-to-be-officially Broadway show.”
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