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Video Watch: Get Swept Away With the New Avett Brothers Musical at Arena Stage

The Grammy-nominated folk-rock band has contributed music and lyrics to the new show.

Swept Away, a new musical featuring music and lyrics by Grammy-nominated folk-rock band The Avett Brothers, is currently onstage at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, where it opened December 6. See highlights from the production with the newly released montage above.

The work features a book by Tony winner John Logan and direction by Tony winner Michael Mayer. The extended run continues through January 14, 2024.

Starring are Tony winner John Gallagher, Jr. (Spring Awakening), Tony nominee Stark Sands (Kinky Boots), Adrian Blake Enscoe (Apple TV+’s Dickinson), and Wayne Duvall (1984), each reprising their performances from the musical's 2022 world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

The ensemble includes Hunter Brown (The Sound of Music), Matt DeAngelis (Waitress), Taurean Everett (Moulin Rouge!), Cameron Johnson (Into the Woods), Brandon Kalm (Waitress), Michael Mainwaring, Orville Mendoza (Peter and the Starcatcher), Tyrone L. Robinson (Frozen), John Sygar (Look Both Ways), and Jamari Johnson Williams (Ain’t Too Proud).

Joining Mayer on the creative team are Tony Award-nominated choreographer David Neumann, music supervisor Brian Usifer (arrangements and orchestrations are by Chris Miller and Usifer), music director Will Van Dyke, Tony-winning set designer Rachel Hauck, Tony-winning costume designer Susan Hilferty, four-time Tony-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams, Tony-winning sound designer John Shivers, New York casting directors Jim Carnahan, Jillian Cimini, and Alexandre Bleau, D.C. casting director Joseph Pinzon, stage manager Matthew Leiner, and assistant stage managers Alice M. Pollitt, Marne Anderson, and Jalon Payton.

Swept Away follows four survivors of an 1888 shipwreck off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts. As they struggle to stay alive, they must question whether or not they can live with the consequences of their actions, and discover how tragedy can lead to forgiveness.

Visit ArenaStage.org.

Photos: John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, More in Swept Away at Arena Stage

 
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