The story is rooted in “Mignonette,” an album about an Australia-bound yacht that capsized in 1884, leaving four crew members trapped for weeks in a lifeboat.

But “Swept Away” has washed up on Broadway via a much-trafficked route in contemporary theater: Load up on existing tracks from a popular recording artist — the Avett Brothers, in this case — assemble a crew with bona fides and set sail.

There's so much to recommend "Swept Away" - about two brothers from a religious family who get trapped on an ill-fated whaling ship with a crew of doomed heathens - that it seems unkind, or even unfair,