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'REVIEW: Tracing Ludovico Einaudi's Chart-Topping ‘Elements’

If the charts are any indicator, it's possible that tastes may be changing in the UK. Italian composer and classical pianist Ludovico Einaudi's 2015 album, 'Elements,' is turning heads as the first classical-ish album to reach the top 15 in the country.
  • 'Cast for B'way Musical 'Doctor Zhivago' Announced: Tam Mutu to Play Lead

    The long-awaited musical "Doctor Zhivago" has finally announced the cast for its up-and-coming broadway debut. Tam Mutu, a newcomer to the U.S. Broadway stage, will play the title role of Yurii Zhivago in this newest adaptation. Mutu, known as a West End of London stage actor, has been in Love Never Dies and the upcoming revival of Donmar Warehouse’s "City of Angels." He also had a recent role as Javert in "Les Miserables." "Doctor Zhivago" is based on the 1957 famous, epic, historical romance novel by Boris Pasternak and focuses on romance and upheaval in Russia during World War I. It tells the story of a political idealist who must choose between his devoted wife and mysterious lover. The famous novel was made into a film in 1965 and the original stage adaptation appeared at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California, in 2006. After its closing, it was reworked and ran at the Lyric Theater in Sydney, Australia, until 2011.
  • ''Doctor Zhivago' Musical Planned for Broadway in 2015

    This quasi-operatic adaptation with music by Lucy Simon ('The Secret Garden') was well reviewed in Sydney in 2011.
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