Up on the Marquee: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

Broadway's Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys), with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller (Ragtime), music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon (The Secret Garden), lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers (Ella Enchanted), and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine (Rocky). DOCTOR ZHIVAGO will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 6:30pm, at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway). BroadwayWorld brings you photos of the marquee below!

Jonah Halperin, Sophia Gennusa, Ava-Riley Miles and Ashley Brooke round-out the full cast of the new Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, which stars Tam Mutu (Donmar Warehouse's City of Angels) making his Broadway debut as the passionate Doctor and poet Yurii Zhivago, Kelli Barrett (Wicked) as the alluring Lara Guishar, Tony Award nominee Tom Hewitt (Rocky Horror Show) as the cynical bourgeois magistrate Viktor Komarovsky, Paul Alexander Nolan (Jesus Chris Superstar) as political radical Pasha Antipov, and Lora Lee Gayer as Tonia Gromeko, Zhivago's devoted wife.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO will feature scenic design by Michael Scott-Mitchell (Wagner's Ring Cycle), costume design by five-time Tony Award nominee Paul Tazewell (Memphis), lighting design by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley(Jersey Boys), sound design by Tony Award winner SCK Sound Design (700 Sundays), projection design by Sean Nieuwenhuis (Jesus Christ Superstar), hair & wig design by Charles G. LaPointe, special effects design by Greg Meeh, fight directions by Steve Rankin, orchestrations by Danny Troob, music arrangements by Eric Stern, with musical direction and supervision by Ron Melrose.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an epic romance, revolving around the search for love 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 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. Doctor Zhivago celebrates the strength of love and art, in the face of political oppression and revolution.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

'Doctor Zhivago' Theatre marquee unveiling at the Broadway Theatre on January 30, 2015 in New York City.

'Doctor Zhivago' Theatre marquee unveiling at the Broadway Theatre on January 30, 2015 in New York City.

'Doctor Zhivago' Theatre marquee unveiling at the Broadway Theatre on January 30, 2015 in New York City.

'Doctor Zhivago' Theatre marquee unveiling at the Broadway Theatre on January 30, 2015 in New York City.

'Doctor Zhivago' Theatre marquee unveiling at the Broadway Theatre on January 30, 2015 in New York City.

'Doctor Zhivago' Theatre marquee unveiling at the Broadway Theatre on January 30, 2015 in New York City.