SWEPT AWAY Broadway Reviews — Page 3

Sadly closing December 15th. Closing notice coming soon.

Make way for real estate.

It’s very sad to see a show close right before the holidays, but I can’t help myself and say what has been booked for the spring? Motive and the Cue? GGR?

I wanted to see this again and now glad I grabbed a seat for the Saturday matinee, before the closing was announced.

They thought it would run for 20 years??? Honestly I would love to be a fly on the wall for these behind-the-scenes conversations I honestly believe there must be a lot of yes people around and no one actually telling the truth. Of course you need optimism - too negative and you’d let something like maybe happy ending close too early. But there has to be a balance of optimism and realistic expectations that feed into the production of these musicals.

GottaGetAGimmick420 said: "Broadway producers are certainly the types to all sit around a table and tell each other "yes"

All the female friends who saw this absolutely despised it, while the some men really connected with it... I wonder if that also be where the disconnect came as well. Men saw this as a deep connecting moment to understand God, while the women saw men complaining and a story going nowhere (at least that's my thoughts on it)"

My wife and I saw this in Berkeley, she was obsessed with it, I thought it was fine but the story didn't really work for me, especially the ending.

We saw it on Broadway cause she wanted to see it again so badly, again she loved it and I had pretty similar thoughts to the first time I saw it

The original run was basically a one night only concert.

I wish there was video of how the design worked. Bummed I didn't get to see the show.

I was thinking more after I wrote the previous last night, that in the second half the lifeboat just turned in place and couldn't travel across the grid. So they must have had some sort of turntable that popped up through one section of the grid that the boat sat on.

In a lot of ways the grid was very restrictive, so I'm not sure why they went with it? The ship set could have just as easily been built on a more solid set, and been raised off of that. Then in the second half the life boat could have been tracked across the whole stage instead of just spinning in place. I remember that was one complaint some people had - about the lifeboat just spinning in place.

The more I think about it, if I were a voter, the dangerous aspects of that grid as well as its limitations, would maybe hold me back from voting for this as best scenic design.

My guess is MHE is getting that anyways.

Shubert Alley Cat said: "While the shipwreck and transformation to the lifeboat were impressive the design was a bit boring otherwise. I think the set design for MHE was much more effective and, frankly, quite innovative with many surprises throughout."

This is very in the weeds, but I actually have an issue with the design of Maybe Happing Ending (this is it in the context of it being my favorite new musical of the season). Oliver's apartment in basically a box that created a somewhat obstructed view for people in fairly decent orchestra seats, if you weren't in the center.

I'm not sure how much this is weighed by directors, but moments that can look really cool from one vantage point are sometimes completely obstructed for other audience members. Going to see A Doll's House and missing Jessica Chastain's big exit is probably the most extreme example of this.

Video here of how the transition worked.