Zhivago Coming to Broadway - Official Website- Page 2

[allofmylife]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 3:35pm

Yup. First version.

Hmmmm....

We went after the rights from the movie version because the book rights are actually the ones that were problematic. It all had to do with the way the book was sneaked out of the USSR and distributed by a communist publisher in Italy. He never had the actual literary rights. Carlo Ponti and MGM had a clearer line of title because they put one million dollars in escrow for the Pasternak family and...

Oh it's so complicated. It's almost as Byzantine as the rights for Pal Joey.

I hope it works.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 3:53pm

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


This makes my heart soar

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:10pm

Dolly

Billings Montana will be the new Broadway.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:15pm

http://www.zhivagothemusical.com/making_of_zhivago_1.cfm

There they keep talking about how it's based off the book and the inspiration for the musical is the book. I also remember reading an interview with Lucy saying that since the musical is based off the book there are several characters from the movie who are missing.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:21pm

That webpage looks like a tacky geocities page.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:23pm

http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/6255

I can't find the Lucy Simon interview but that is an article that says it is based off of the books.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:31pm

We believe you. Calm down. Take some Valium.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:34pm

I never thought that you didn't, I just wanted to back up my statement.

[dented146]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:45pm

B3T, Yes it does. But if you were to go to Yosemite today you would find, at the end of the valley, a rather unremarkable granite wall. In April, however, it's the most incredible waterfall.

Shows can be like that; Broadway too. Have a nice Thanksgiving

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 4:48pm

So buzz for this will pick up in April?

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 11/22/07 at 9:18pm

They have Broadway in their "sites"? Doctor Zhivago won the Best Picture Academy Award? Who's responsible for this web page, the Bush administration?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 11/23/07 at 2:03am

Exactly. The only above the line win at the Oscars was Rob't Bolt for best adapted screenplay.