Swept Away, the brand new musical that includes songs by The Avett Brothers to inform a shipwreck story of survival and sacrifice, will shut its Broadway run on Sunday, December 15, only a month after opening on the Longacre Theatre.
The $14.5 million present, which stars John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall, could have performed 20 previews and 32 common performances on the time of its closing. Swept Away started performances on October 29 with an official opening on November 19.
Producers Matthew Masten, Sean Hudock and Madison Wells Dwell introduced the closing, noting, “We’re deeply pleased with this lovely manufacturing and the years of labor that it took to get to Broadway. We’ll endlessly be indebted to our improbable artistic staff, our loyal actors and all of our co-producers and in flip their traders, for believing on this manufacturing and taking a threat on new work.”
The musical acquired blended critiques from critics, with some, together with Deadline and The New York Occasions, championing the work, however others emphasizing the downbeat nature of the story.
Audiences have been even much less enthusiastic, with field workplace tepid at finest. Last week Swept Away grossed simply $412,182 with attendance on the Longacre at an unsustainable 61% of the venue’s capability.
The unique Broadway forged recording of Swept Away is ready for digital launch on Friday, February 7, 2025, and a bodily CD launch in early 2025 on Pleasure Machine Data.
Along with the Avett Brothers rating, Swept Away has a e-book by John Logan and course by Michael Mayer. Previous to its Broadway run, the musical performed profitable engagements at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and at Area Stage in Washington, D.C.
Swept Away is the second new musical of the present Broadway fall season to announce are early shut: The disastrously reviewed $25 million Elton John-Jake Shears musical Tammy Faye not too long ago introduced that it might shut on December 8 after simply 24 preview and 29 common performances.
