Doctor Zhivago
by Lucy Simon, Michael Weller, Amy Powers, Michael Korie

Name: Doctor Zhivago
Brand: Lucy Simon
SKU: 9780573709449

Broadway

Doctor Zhivago Book Cover — Doctor Zhivago Cover

Highlights

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Male

120 mins 1930s Ensemble Cast Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes

Synopsis

Doctor Zhivago is a heartbreaking epic romance set during the final days of Czarist Russia.

Raised as an aristocrat, Zhivago is a political idealist, physician and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is torn between a life with his close childhood friend and wife, and the passionate and mysterious Lara.

Zhivago, however, is not alone in his yearnings for Lara, and must compete with both revolutionaries and aristocracy alike to win the heart of the woman he cannot live without.

This licensed version of Doctor Zhivago is largely based upon the 2015 Broadway production, with some structural changes based upon the Sydney production from 2011.

A new song, “Home Where the Lilacs Grow,” has been inserted into Act 1.

Press Reviews

"The dramatic heft and technical fluency of this quasi-operatic filleting of Boris Pasternak's novel makes for engrossing entertainment."
— Sydney Morning Herald

"A highly polished production. It is unlike any other contemporary musical currently playing. Containing no irony or black humour, it is simply about love and idealism."
— Australian Stage

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
PRINCIPALS (3f, 5m)	—	—	(3f, 5m)
Yurii Zhivago A doctor and poet	—	—	A doctor and poet
Lara Guishar Yurii's inspiration	—	—	Yurii's inspiration
Viktor Komarovsky A lawyer	—	—	A lawyer
Pasha Antipov/Strelnikov A revolutionary	—	—	A revolutionary
Tonia Gromeko (Yurii's wife) Yurii's wife	female	—	Yurii's wife
Alexander Gromeko (Tonia's father) Tonia's father	male	—	Tonia's father
Anna Gromeko (Tonia's mother) Tonia's mother	female	—	Tonia's mother
Sasha (Tonia's son) Yurii and Tonia's son	male	—	Yurii and Tonia's son
ENSEMBLE	—	—	—