Swept Away w/ John Logan and John Gallagher

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This fall, the musical Swept Away, which is based on the music of Bob Crawford's band The Avett Brothers is coming to broadway, and to celebrate, we're re-sharing our conversation with writer, John Logan, and lead actor, John Gallagher Jr.

This conversation was recorded just after Swept Away premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, CA in January 2022, and when you hear the passion from the folks who brought the musical to life, you'll understand why the show has been such a great success (and why you should go see it).

John Logan is Swept Away's writer whose previous credits include Any Given Sunday, Skyfall, & Red.

John Gallagher Jr. is Swept Away's lead actor who previously starred in American Idiot & The Newsroom.

Learn more about the musical at sweptawaymusical.com and by following @sweptawaymusical on Instagram.

Click here to hear John Gallagher Jr. performing "The Once and Future Carpenter" from Swept Away.

This episode originally aired as RTN #219 on January 17, 2022. Original editing by Gary Fletcher. Rebroadcast editing by Ben Sawyer.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Ben Sawyer and this is The Road to Now.
0:08.8	Today on the podcast, we have a lot to celebrate.
0:12.0	This is airing May 21st, 2024.
0:14.9	Saturday before this, on the 18th, was the eight-year anniversary of the Road to Now,
0:19.7	which blows my mind. About two weeks before that, when we recorded the first episode in the basement of Bridgestone Arena. Who knew we'd still be going now? Who knew we'd be successful? I'll tell you what, it wasn't me and Bob. We were just giving something a shot. And thanks to you guys for listening, because you're the reason we stick around. So thank you for that. So I guess
0:37.9	happy birthday to us. But my co-host, Bob, has an even longer relationship with his band the Avid
0:43.5	brothers who have been around for 20-something years at this point. Last Friday, they released a new
0:47.8	album. It's doing great. But on top of that, this kind of brilliant thing happened where they
0:53.1	announced that the musical swept away,
0:55.5	which is based on the music of Bob's band, the Ava Brothers. It's going to Broadway. That's
1:00.2	insane. Well, it's not insane. It's just awesome. And so today, to celebrate this great news,
1:07.3	we are sharing an episode we recorded at the beginning of 2022. Our guests are
1:13.8	John Logan, who wrote the musical Swept Away, and Johnny Gallagher Jr., who is the lead actor.
1:19.6	And we spoke to them just days after the musical premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theater
1:24.4	in Berkeley, California, had a limited run out there, and who knew
1:28.8	what was going to happen. But when you listen to this conversation, you will get why this
1:33.6	musical is successful. I'm not a big fan of musicals myself, but I started talking to these folks
1:39.0	about their creative vision and just what goes into turning music into a story. And it was, I'll just say I'm not
1:46.5	surprised that made it to Broadway. This much talent combined with this much love of what they're doing,
1:51.9	it's a formula that I think it tends to lead to success. So we hope you guys enjoy this episode.
1:57.3	We hope you guys join us in celebrating all the good news, the long-term relationships,
2:02.8	the advanced relationships and going to Broadway. And we hope you have a good week. We'll be back
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