The stage production of Doctor Zhivago features the work of bookwriter Michael Weller (Moonchildren, Loose Ends), composer Lucy Simon (The Secret Garden) and lyricists Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) and Amy Powers (Lizzie Borden).
To download the album, visit BroadwayRecords.com. Pre-orders for the physical CD will begin shipping Aug. 3. It will be released in-stores and digitally on iTunes Aug. 7.
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Listen to an exclusive track, "On the Edge of Time," performed by Zhivago stars Tam Mutu and Kelli Barrett.
The cast album will be released July 31. Pre-order it here. The recording will be produced by the seven-time Grammy-nominated music producer Robert Sher (On The Town, How To Succeed... , Nice Work If You Can Get It). Ron Melrose serves as associate producer. J. Todd Harris is executive producer. Based on the 1958 novel by Russian author Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago began previews March 27 and opened to cool reviews from critics April 21. It closed May 10 after 26 previews and 23 regular performances.
Mutu, the West End leading man known for his roles in Les Misérables, Love Never Dies and the Donmar Warehouse production of City of Angels, made his Broadway debut as Yurii Zhivago in a cast that also featured Kelli Barrett (Wicked, Rock of Ages) as Lara Guishar, Tony Award nominee Tom Hewitt (Rocky Horror Show, Dracula) as Viktor Komarovsky, Paul Alexander Nolan (Once, Jesus Christ Superstar) as Pasha Antipov and Josh Canfield as Liberius.
The cast also featured Lora Lee Gayer as Tonia Gromeko, as well as Jacqueline Antaramian, Jamie Jackson, Heather Botts, Wendi Bergamini, Melody Butiu, Julian Cihi, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Bradley Dean, Michael Brian Dunn, Drew Foster, Kira Guloien, Robert Hager, Ericka Hunter, Denis Lambert, David McDonald, Joseph Medeiros, Pilar Millhollen, Gary Milner, Spencer Moses, Julius Sermonia, Jacob L. Smith and Jesse Wildman.
Music arrangements are by Eric Stern and musical supervision by Ron Melrose. Orchestrations are by Danny Troob.
According to producers, "Dr. Zhivago is an epic romance set during the final days of Czarist Russia, the First World War and the chaos of the Russian revolution. 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 devoted wife, Tonia Gromeko and the passionate and mysterious Lara Guishar. Zhivago is not alone in his yearnings for Lara, competing for her affections with the young revolutionary Pasha Antipov, and the aristocrat Viktor Komarovsky. Dr. Zhivago celebrates the strength of love and art, in the face of political oppression, war and revolution."
