Cast for Doctor Zhivago concert at the London Palladium

Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker will reprise their performances as Yurii Zhivago and Lara Guishar when Doctor Zhivago In Concert plays the London Palladium on 7 May 2023.

Previously seen in the UK concert première of the show in 2019, Karimloo (The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, Miss Saigon) and Schoenmaker (The Light in the Piazza, Barnum) will be joined by fellow returning cast members Kelly Mathieson (The Phantom of the Opera, Her Majesty’s Theatre) as Tonia Gromeko and Charlie McCullagh (Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Union  Theatre) as Pasha Antipov (Strelnikov). The production will also feature Nadim Naaman (Broken Wings, Rumi: The Musical) will feature as Viktor Komarovksy.

The cast is completed by Maisey Bawden as Olya, Cavin Cornwall as Alexander Gromeko and Emma Norman as Anna Gromeko with Tilly-Raye Bayer as Young Tonia, Olivia Clark as Young Lara and Samuel Newby as Young Yurii.

Doctor Zhivago In Concert is directed by Jordan Murphy (Sunset Boulevard, Matilda, Mary Poppins) with musical direction by Adam Hoskins (The Secret Garden, Dr Zhivago, Camelot).

Dedicating the Palladium performance of Doctor Zhivago In Concert to the memory of the musical’s composer, producers Jamie Lambert and Eliza Jackson said: “We were so saddened to learn of the passing of the brilliant Lucy Simon. She was a talent beyond words and we are honoured to dedicate this concert production of one of her favourite works to her.” The Grammy Award-winning sister of Carly Simon passed away at her home in New York State last month.

Based on Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning novel which was famously made into an epic, multi Oscar-winning film starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, the musical version debuted in California in 2006. Written by Michael Weller, the show which boasts music by Lucy Simon with lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers, debuted on Broadway in 2015.

Doctor Zhivago In Concert is produced by Lambert Jackson and the newly formed Positive Sum Productions.

Angela Thomas