The Avett Brothers’ new musical Swept Away will star the returning principal cast members from the show’s run at Berkeley Repertory and Arena Stage including Tony Award® winner John Gallagher Jr. (Spring Awakening), Tony Award nominee Stark Sands (Kinky Boots), Adrian Blake Enscoe (Apple TV+’s “Dickinson”), and Wayne Duvall (1984).
Also returning from the show’s run at Arena Stage include ensemble members Hunter Brown, Matt DeAngelis, Cameron Johnson, Brandon Kalm, Michael J. Mainwaring, Orville Mendoza, Tyrone L. Robinson, and John Sygar,
New to the cast are Josh Breckenridge, Rico LeBron, John Michael Finley, Chase Peacock, Robert Pendilla, and David Rowen.
From the chart-topping folk-rock band The Avett Brothers comes "a spellbinding tale" (The Washington Post) of shipwreck, salvation and brotherhood set on the high seas.
An odyssey of "mythic proportions" (San Francisco Chronicle), Swept Away features a book by Tony Award winner John Logan (Red, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), direction by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and choreography by Tony Award nominee David Neumann (Hadestown).
Swept Away had regional runs at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in early 2022, which was thrice extended, and at Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C. in the winter of 2023, grossing more than $1 million by its first preview. In total, Swept Away has captivated audiences from 45 states (plus the District of Columbia) and all over the globe as far as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Japan.
The Swept Away creative team includes Tony Award-winning set designer Rachel Hauck, Tony Award-winning costume designer Susan Hilferty, four-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams, Tony Award-winning sound designer John Shivers, music arranger & orchestrator Chris Miller, music arranger & orchestrator/music supervisor Brian Usifer, music director Will Van Dyke, and casting director Jim Carnahan, Jillian Cimini, and Alexandre Bleau, CSA.
Wagner Johnson Productions serve as Executive Producers.
Tickets are available for purchase at www.sweptawaymusical.com and Telecharge at www.telecharge.com, or by calling 212-239-6200 or 800-447-7400.