SWEPT AWAY Broadway Reviews- Page 2

[Voter]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 11:33pm

Would someone be so kind as to post a gift link to the NYTimes review?

[akhoya87]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 11:35pm

NYT Gift Link here:  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/arts/swept-away-review-avett-brothers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU4.ilHp.XzA6sAaDIOMX&smid=url-share

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 11:54pm

DTLI Consensus: If darker musicals tickle your fancy, and if you don’t mind perhaps a bit of rough water structure-wise, you might as well set sail to the Longacre Theatre.

8 mixed, 6 positive (including the NYT), 1 negative.

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/swept-away/

Updated On: 11/19/24 at 11:54 PM

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 11:55pm

The Times really sang Gallagher’s praises though.

“Gallagher, as the Mate, given the chance to create a huge and complicated character, grabs it hungrily. Bothering a janky tooth, wiggling around like a worm, he is twinkly, seedy, charming, lost. It’s the kind of performance that great musicals require and that can make merely good ones riveting.”
 

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/arts/swept-away-review-avett-brothers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU4.3V4H.Vh8pGG-o7Cx_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 12:32am

PipingHotPiccolo said: "easily the best reviewed new musical of the season thus far... such a shame that, according to some on these boards, the show is closing anyway in a weeks lol"

Incorrect. That would be MHE. 

[BJR]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 1:36am

Between the shipwreck in this and the design elements in MAYBE HAPPY ENDING, this season has some exciting have-to-be-there moments.

[inception]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 7:29am

I think I agree that the show could have used a bit more length to flesh a few more things out.

I kept wishing for a scene like in all the movies about Sailors I watch online where maybe Little Brother goes jogging, and then pulls a muscle, and then Mate is like "here let me help you out & give you a nice massge" & then "No wonder you're so tense, those shorts are too tight, let's just get you out of those" etc etc. Has Mr. Logan never seen  William Higgins' classic "Sailor in the Wild?"

I'm making a dumb joke, but the Adam Driver play Hold On To Me Darling actually has a massage bait seduction scene where Driver gets down to his drawers.  Tragically he's being given that massage by a female. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 8:22am

Reviews ended up being fairly decent. Hopefully this can survive through the holidays and run longer than Tammy Faye. Would really suck to have three major flops back-to-back (this, Tammy Faye and Maybe Happy Ending).

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 8:31am

ACL2006 said: "Reviews ended up being fairly decent. Hopefully this can survive through the holidays and run longer than Tammy Faye. Would really suck to have three major flops back-to-back (this, Tammy Faye and Maybe Happy Ending)."

This show is too dark and sophisticated for today’s audiences, and they lack a major celebrity in the cast. A mid-December closing is the best option for Swept Away.

[MezzoDiva47]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 8:40am

MemorableUserName said: "Two stars from NY Post

‘Swept Away’ review: Strange Broadway shipwreck show has pretty folk songs — and cannibalism

https://nypost.com/2024/11/19/entertainment/swept-away-review-broadway-shipwreck-has-folk-songs-and-cannibalism/

"Rarely do I suggest that any show be longer than it already is, but 90 minutes is an awfully condensed span to go from boarding to blood-thirst. ""
 

u missed quoting the best part of this review:

Then, in the last 20 minutes, when talk turns to who among them should be cooked for dinner, ticket-buyers start to reconsider that post-show reservation at Joe Allen. The liver there is absolutely delicious, but “Swept Away” will have you searching “vegan.”

 

[pablitonizer]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 8:45am

EDSOSLO858 said: "ACL2006 said: "Reviews ended up being fairly decent. Hopefully this can survive through the holidays and run longer than Tammy Faye. Would really suck to have three major flops back-to-back (this, Tammy Faye and Maybe Happy Ending)."

This show is too dark and sophisticated for today’s audiences, and they lack a major celebrity in the cast. A mid-December closing is the best option forSwept Away."

 

Reviews were not that great either. It's more in the mixed world so I don't see this show lasting for that long with us

[keen on kean]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 11:12am

What this show does have is fans of the Avett Brothers, a group of people who may not go to Broadway all that often, if at all. When I attended, the audience skewed much younger than I have seen generally, even in shows where there was a star with an established fanbase, like Groban.