The new Broadway musical Swept Away , the riveting tale of shipwrecked sailors, with music by the Avett Brothers, has been extended for another two weeks, with final performance planned for December 29th. The extension comes after an unprecedented surge in ticket sales after announcing last week that the show would be closing its doors early. Star of the show, Adrian Blake Enscoe who is also one-third of the beloved indie-folk-pop band, Bandits on the Run gave us a backstage tour last night of all the fun. Tony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. ( Spring Awakening ), Tony Award nominee Stark Sands ( Kinky Boots ), Adrian Blake Enscoe (Apple TV+'s Dickinson), and Wayne Duvall ( 1984 ), also star in the show based on the true story of the Mignonette, a yacht that sank in 1884. Get your tickets now while ya still can! Adrian and his bandmates Sydney Shepherd and Regina Strayhorn, are also currently writing several original musicals, including one based on the book What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and preparing for a 2025 residency at Bowery Electric. From busking in the subway, touring the country indie-band-in-a-van style, starring on a successful streaming series Dickinson on AppleTV+, and now, gracing the stage of the Great White Way, performing music by one of their favorite bands; The Avetts Adrian told us is like 'a dream come true.'
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00:00Hi, I'm Adrian Blake Insko. I'm a little brother in Broadway's Swept Away. I'm at the Longacre
00:05Theatre right now, and you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:08I'm going to take you guys up into the theatre to the quote-unquote cheap seats, but they're
00:19actually like some of my favorite seats in the house. This is the mezzanine view for
00:23the show. It's one of my favorite places to have people sit because you're actually kind
00:27of right at eye level with the ship. You can see the whole picture, including all the people
00:32going up and down the ropes. There's stuff that happens on the poop deck. When it's just
00:36a lifeboat, you actually can kind of see into the lifeboat and see what's happening.
00:40Can I show you my dressing room? All right, come on, let's go. This is our stage door
00:43entrance. This is Lisa. Lisa, give a wave.
00:48Come see Swept Away.
00:50Oh my God. This is our hair and makeup room. This is where people come and get tattooed
00:54every day because we have salty sailors here. This is Leslie, who does hair and makeup,
00:58and Sharina also does hair and makeup. Come see Swept Away, and you'll get to see the
01:02braids that Leslie puts in my hair every night.
01:04So this is part of our music department. This is the music dressing room. This is our music
01:08director, Will Van Dyke, and conductor. And this is Maddie Deichman.
01:12We love you. Come see Swept Away.
01:13Yeah, it did up. Come see Swept Away.
01:16So we're in the dressing room tower at the Longacre Theatre. It's a very old theatre.
01:20It's 120 years old, I think. All sorts of ghosts and stories and history. I heard that
01:26Times Square actually used to be called Longacre Square, which is where the theatre got its
01:30name. So this is our principal dressing rooms. I am one of the principals. There are four
01:36of us. In every other production of the show, we've all been in one room, but because we're
01:42in a very old theatre with tiny dressing rooms, we've settled for being all on one hallway.
01:48So come on in. This is my dressing room. I have this dressing room painted pink because
01:53that color gives me life. Like half of the clutter in here is cast gifts from opening.
01:59I don't know. You might be able to hear some of our castmates warming up. What we're supposed
02:04to do before we go on stage is I change, I put in my microphone. We have basically our
02:10only makeup for the show is this dirt that we put on because we've got to be dirty country
02:17kids and then dirty sailors. I have to put it on my feet and then my hands and my face
02:23and neck. And then Leslie comes in and puts braids in my hair and we put the microphone
02:28through the braids. The microphone's right here. So I'm going to get into costume. I'll
02:34see you in like five minutes. Ta-da! This is what I'm wearing for most of pre-show.
02:41It's part of my costume, not the whole thing. I've got my fuzzy slippers on. I don't have
02:46a mic yet. At least not putting my hair. But yeah, we're all here.