International NewsRamin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker to Reprise Roles in London Palladium Doctor Zhivago Concert
Jordan Murphy will direct with musical direction by Adam Hoskins.
By
Andrew Gans
September 28, 2022
Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker
Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker, who starred in the U.K. concert premiere of the Doctor Zhivago musicalin September 2019, will reprise their roles in a May 7, 2023, concert of the 2015 Broadway musical at the London Palladium.
Tony nominee Karimloo (Funny Girl, Les Misérables) will again play Yurii Andreyevich Zhivago with Schoenmaker (Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera) as Lara Guishar.Additional casting will be announced.
Jordan Murphy (SunsetBoulevard, Matilda) will direct the concert with musical direction by Adam Hoskins (TheSecretGarden, Camelot).
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago concerns Yurii Andreyevich Zhivago, a political idealist, physician, and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is torn between a life with his close childhood friend and wife, and the passionate and mysterious Lara Guishar.
Written by Oscar nominee Michael Weller, the show features music by two-time Grammy winner and Tony nominee Lucy Simon, with lyrics by Tony nominee Michael Korie and Emmy nominee Amy Powers.
Doctor Zhivago—In Concert is produced by Lambert Jackson and Positive Sum Productions.
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Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo in Love Never Dies
Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess in Love Never Dies
Ramin Karimloo in The Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall
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Ramin Karimloo as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.
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Kyle Scatliffe and Ramin Karimloo in Les Misérables.
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Ramin Karimloo, nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his performance as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables
Ramin Karimloo, Eric Anderson, Katie Rose Clarke and Caitlin Houlahan
Andy Mientus and Ramin Karimloo
Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess
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Ramin Karimloo
Ramin Karimloo
Kerry Ellis and Ramin Karimloo
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Kerry Ellis, Ramin Karimloo and Norman Bowman
Ramin Karimloo and Christy Altomare
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Ramin Karimloo
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Ramin Karimloo, Christy Altomare, and Derek Klena
Ramin's top of the show look. Being in his dressing room was a serene, human experience and it was so refreshing to see that music played such an important part of his preparation.
Filmed in 2023, the one-night-only event featured Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Peter Friedman, and more from the Ahrens and Flaherty musical's original cast.
Surrounded by period-accurate, 19th-century holiday decorations lit via candlelight, the 70-minute production is based on Dickens' own script of the classic.
