#219 Swept Away w/ John Logan and John Gallagher
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On January 9, the new musical Swept Away, which is based on the music of Bob's band The Avett Brothers, premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. In this episode, the musical's writer, John Logan (Any Given Sunday, Skyfall, Red) and lead actor, John Gallagher Jr. (American Idiot, The Newsroom) join Bob and Ben for a discussion about how the music became a musical, their sources of creativity, and why they decided to make such a deep investment in developing and performing Swept Away.
Swept Away runs until March 6, 2022 at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, CA. For more information and tickets visit the Berkeley Rep's website.
You can also follow Swept Away on Instagram by clicking here.
Click here to hear John Gallagher Jr. performing "The Once and Future Carpenter" from Swept Away.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:07.8 | This is The Road to Now. |
| 0:09.8 | And today, Bob, The Road to Now takes us to a conversation that a literal road was supposed to take us on in 2020. |
| 0:18.0 | That's right. |
| 0:18.5 | We are joined here with two great, great performers and writers. |
| 0:23.0 | We've got John Logan and should I call you Johnny, John, yeah. |
| 0:27.3 | It's what it says on your screen. |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, that's what that's that's that is what I put my my zoom moniker as. |
| 0:34.9 | I answer to just about anything. |
| 0:37.1 | But, uh, but yes, a lot of folks, |
| 0:38.4 | I'm named John on my birth certificate, but, but a lot of friends call me Johnny. Okay. So, we're friends now. That's great. Yeah, exactly. That was quick. All right. We'll see you guys later. Just kidding. Um, we were supposed to go out to Berkeley. This, uh, this, this, this musical that you guys worked on was supposed to was supposed to open last year and the |
| 0:55.1 | amazing thing is your musical swept away just it's just opened up and we're so excited to have |
| 1:00.8 | you here to see that things are getting back and getting strong yeah you know i i'm really |
| 1:07.4 | impressed that the first let's just say like this will air on Monday, and this is |
| 1:13.9 | the Monday a week before it will air, so everybody knows. |
| 1:18.1 | And last night was the first performance of swept away. |
| 1:21.6 | So first of all, I'll let you guys speak in a second here, but wow that you could do this in the midst of Omicron, |
| 1:30.6 | right, that you, that you just, you just powered through. |
| 1:33.4 | That's great. |
| 1:34.4 | And it's a testament to the safety protocols that that Berkeley rep has in place. |
| 1:40.5 | And also, by way of introduction, how to go. |
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