The musical will feature tracks from the Americana band’s 2004 album Mignonette
Folk-rock band the Avett Brothers have announced that their musical, Swept Away, will be headed to Broadway this fall. The musical, set in 1888, follows four sailers, including two brothers, who are struck by a violent storm that tanks their ship near the coast by New Bedford, Massachusetts. It centers on “a young man in search of adventure, his big brother who has sworn to protect him, a captain at the end of a long career at sea, and a worldly first mate who has fallen from grace,” the musical questions if the survivors have what it takes to stay alive. The Michael Mayer-directed production draws inspiration from an 1884 shipwreck of British yacht Mignonette, where its surviving crew — deprived of food and water — resorted to cannibalism.
With music and lyrics by the…
