Tam Mutu & Kelli Barrett Bring Epic Romance to Broadway as Doctor Zhivago Begins Previews

Tam Mutu and Kelli Barrett are aiming to win your hearts with epic romance Doctor Zhivago, which begins previews on March 27. The Des McAnuff-helmed production will officially open at the Great White Way's Broadway Theatre on April 21.

The tuner features a book by Michael Weller, music by Lucy Simon and lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers. Based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak, the romance is set during the final days of Czarist Russia and follows Zhivago, a political idealist, physician and poet. His 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.

The cast will also include Tom Hewitt, Paul Nolan and Lora Lee Gayer.