On Sunday (Dec. 8), the Broadway manufacturing Tammy Faye with music from Elton John and lyrics by the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears may have its ultimate evening after a really brief run following a poor reception. Now, the Avett Brothers’ Swept Away musical is ending abruptly as nicely.
Swept Away started previews on Oct. 29 and opened Nov. 19 on the Longacre Theatre, and now it would end on Dec. 15, after 20 previews and 32 common performances. The musical facilities on a Nineteenth-century shipwreck and stars John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, and Wayne Duvall, and acquired combined opinions. On Instagram, the Avett Brothers shared an announcement:
Expensive associates,
Swept Away the musical may have its ultimate efficiency on Broadway on December the fifteenth. It has been an honor and a pleasure past description to have been part of this singular triumph of significant storytelling. Thanks kindly to all who’ve attended, and from the depths of our hearts, we provide our sincerest gratitude to everybody concerned; from the second the idea got here into being, by yearly and milestone over the next decade, there was a legendary assortment of sensible minds and hardworking arms who’ve delivered to bear their fullest dedication and their most interesting work. Thanks all for taking our music and making it yours for carrying it to locations it had by no means gone and will by no means go in any other case. Your dedication to magnificence is an inspiration that may stay with us and with anybody who acquired to see a efficiency of this miraculous piece of artistry. Thanks for all of it. It was our nice privilege to have set sail to sing collectively under the mast in your nice firm.
—Seth, Scott, and Bob