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The Avett Brothers’ Broadway Musical ‘Swept Away’ to Close After One Month
The Avett Brothers’ Broadway musical 'Swept Away' will close on December 15, less than a month after the show opened at the Longacre Theatre.
The musical, set in 1888 but featuring songs from the band’s 2004 album Mignonette, follows four sailors, including two brothers, who are struck by a violent storm that tanks their ship near the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Michael Mayer-directed production drew inspiration from an 1884 shipwreck of the British yacht Mignonette(also the title of the Avett Brothers’ album), where its surviving crew — deprived of food and water — resorted to cannibalism. Swept Away is the second Broadway musical this season to fall victim to an early closure: Elton John and Jake Shears’ Tammy Faye will close Friday after less than a month’s worth of performances.
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