Swept Away Tickets
About Swept Away
Ahoy, Avett Brothers fans! Get Swept Away tickets and experience a new musical: an epic story about a stranded crew following a disastrous shipwreck off the coast of Massachusetts based on a legendary true story. Featuring a book by Broadway vet John Logan (a Tony Award winner for Red and a nominee for Moulin Rouge!) and directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), Swept Away is a “spellbinding tale” per The Washington Post. Set an alert for when Swept Away tickets go on sale to be transported to the beauty and dangers of the open seas.
Experience Swept Away in New York: following its acclaimed and sold-out, coast-to-coast runs at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California and Arena Stage in Washington, DC, Swept Away now comes to Broadway, running at the Longacre Theatre starting October 29. Enjoy songs by “America’s biggest roots band” (Rolling Stone) and see Swept Away on Broadway — book tickets with TodayTix when they become available.
Swept Away cast and creative team
By: John Logan
Songs by: The Avett Brothers
Director: Michael Mayer
Choreography: David Neumann
Sets: Rachel Hauck
Costumes: Susan Hilferty
Lighting: Kevin Adams
Sound: John Shivers
Other info: Music arrangements and orchestrations by Chris Miller and Brian Usifer, music supervision by Usifer, music direction by Will Van Dyke
Venue
Accessibility
Accommodations for patrons who are blind, deaf, partially sighted, and/or have hearing loss; partial wheelchair access, handrail access
More information about Swept Away
Swept Away features a number of Avett Brothers hits from various albums and is also based on the band’s 2004 concept album Mignonette. That album was inspired by the true story of the 1844 shipwreck of the name. Head back in time and visit the crew of Mignonette, cast adrift in a small lifeboat without enough food or water. After nearly three weeks at sea, and with little promise of rescue, two of the crew members decided that in order to save their own lives they would have to kill and eat the ship's teenage cabin boy; by that time, he had fallen gravely ill after drinking seawater.
It is a dark but luminous tale about human choices and consequences that gets a folksy twist and modern retelling in this new musical. Swept Away follows a stranded crew off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts and asks how far will they go to stay alive in the face of enormous adversity?
What to watch for
- Tony Award nominee David Neumann choreographs this show, and his work on Hadestown proves he knows how to physicalize how a crew moves.
- Director Michael Mayer has worked with rock bands before and brought their songs to Broadway, as previously seen in working with Green Day for American Idiot.
- Some included songs in the show include beloved Avett Brothers hits such as “No Hard Feelings,” “Murder in the City,” and “Ain’t No Man.”
- Audiences can expect the best of both worlds in this play: all the epic design elements that showcase an enormous shipwreck foregrounded by intimate stories of what makes us human told by a small, adrift crew of sailors.
Frequently asked questions
What is the running time of Swept Away?
Swept Away runs for 1hr 30min.
How do you get tickets for Swept Away?
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Which theatre is Swept Away at?
Swept Away is at New York's Longacre Theatre, which is located at 220 West 48th Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue), New York, 10036.
What is Swept Away about?
Get Swept Away tickets and experience a seafaring epic from the Avett Brothers. See Swept Away the musical play on Broadway starting this fall.
Where is Swept Away?
Swept Away is at Longacre Theatre, which is located in New York, NY, USA, 10036.
What is the running time of Swept Away?
1hr 30min.
Who wrote the songs in Swept Away?
The song list in this musical has not been announced but Avett Brothers tunes from various albums, largely from Mignonette, will be featured — fans of their Americana music won’t be disappointed.
Who wrote Swept Away?
The Avett Brothers, a Grammy-nominated folk band, wrote the score while Oscar nominee and Broadway vet John Logan wrote the book.
Who directed Swept Away?
Michael Mayer, a Broadway alum and most known for directing Spring Awakening (and winning a Tony), directs.
Is Swept Away appropriate for kids?
An age recommendation has yet to be finalized, but all Broadway audiences regardless of show must be four and over.
Is Swept Away good?
You could say critics and audiences were swept away: after two sold-out runs, the show also enjoyed critical acclaim. Of the original run, the San Francisco Chronicle said it’s a story of “mythic proportions.”
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