Zhivago Coming to Broadway - Official Website

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:26pm

It looks like Zhivago is coming to Broadway. The official website is up!
http://www.zhivagothemusical.com/

[sanda]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:29pm

Lucy Simon's "The Secret Garden" is my all time favorite score. I wish she could do something magical in this show as well.

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:32pm

It says Fall 2007...They better hurry! :O)

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:34pm

Well, at least we know there are plans to take it to Broadway.

Last I heard it is going to be opening in the West End next year.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:35pm

If it arrives on Broadway, it'll close quicker than LESTAT and THE PIRATE QUEEN did.

Broadway doesn't like snoozers anymore. They want PRETTY WOMAN: The Musical.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:36pm

I think this one might last a little longer.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:37pm

I wonder if Jason Danieley will still be attached to the project.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:39pm

In the most recent production that role was played by Matt Bogart, but that is because Danieley was in Curtains. I wonder who they will chose!

[Smaxie]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:42pm

Their website says the show is opening on Broadway OR London's West End. Kind of an odd statement.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 7:47pm

I know they were considering bringing it straight to Broadway, but then they were playing with the idea of bringing it to London then Broadway.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 8:24pm

So long as they don't open it in Billings, Montana.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 8:51pm

That website has been up for a long time. I wouldn't use it to judge the question of a Broadway opening.

[Bluebird]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 8:57pm

According to this column by Baz Bamigboye in the Nov. 2 edition of the London Daily Mail, the musical Zhivago will open in London in October:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/bazbamigboye.html?in_article_id=491269&in_page_id=1794

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 10:24pm

Now I've seen everything: Samizdat on Broadway.




Natasha Rostova
St. Petersburg, Russia

Updated On: 4/29/08 at 10:24 PM

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 11:10pm

I often wonder what musicals TheEnchantedHunter likes. Tenderloin?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 6:54am

The website is very ugly IMO & does not leap out & grab you.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 7:03am

My partners and I spent a great deal of time trying to nail down the rights to Doctor Zhivago - the rights to the movie are an incredible mess - and then we heard someone else had them. I was expecting... well, I wasn't expecting anything like what I heard. The music just had no flavor. This is one of the greatest love stories ever told. It won the Nobel Prize in Literature for a reason. I hate myself for saying this, but I'd prefer to hear the show done by the Les Miz composers than Lucy Simon.

Oh well.....

[[e-mail]]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 11:30am

I know a lot of people love the score to Secret Garden -- I for one think it is one of the most boring excuses for a Musical Score.

Boublil & Schornberg would have been better probably, I agree.

But why not whoever wrote Grey Gardens? Or even Guettel?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 11:42am

Dear Lord, not Adam "My music makes Schoenberg sound positively melodic" Guettel.

The idea to do Doctor Zhivago cam about when we were sitting around talking about mounting a real potboiler. I suggested "Reds" because of all the flag-waving numbers a la Les Miz and my partner suggested "Why not Doctor Zhivago?" and instantl we knew we had a great idea. The story would work as an opera. Judging from what I've heard, it's now a chamber piece.

I was not impressed.

[dented146]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 12:45pm

allofmylife, Did you see the production at The La Jolla Playhouse or the reworked version done for charity in NYC?

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 1:16pm

There were two productions at La Jolla. The difference between the two was like night and day.


I hope they at least get a new logo.

Allofmylife- They do not have the rights for the movie, only the book.

[dented146]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 1:30pm

needy, I did not know that. I saw a very early production-still in previews. What did they change?

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 2:10pm

They changed every single thing about it.

Did you see the main stage production in the Mandell Weiss or the page to stage in the Potiker?

I will try and post some pictures of the newest production but they are HUGE!

[dented146]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 2:38pm

I saw the production in the main theatre a couple of days before opening night and one short rehearsal segment early on.

I had the opportunity to speak to Lucy Simon at that rehearsal. Clearly, she was the driving force behind the musical. I learned later that it was she who secured the rights for the show.

This is a labor of love for her and I got the impression that she poured her soul into the music.

On the other hand, I could understand the rather negative reviews. I felt the storyline was uneven and as some put it- a bit of a mess. But, I loved much of the score especially the quiet ballads.

I've heard that the openings for both the first and second acts have been changed for the London production but I have no idea what was done. I wish I could see the West End result.

Thanks neddy. I'd love to see some pictures

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 2:40pm

The book is a mess but the score was gorgeous.

I also thought the production was visually beautiful to look at.