Absolutely NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Won't Allow It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                            Have I got some news for Mr. Seth Rudetsky!  If this thing is brought over to Broadway, from, I think, Australia, as it is expected to, come 2015, he won't have a single thing to deconstruct, because, girls, I am telling you, here and now, this thing will never last!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             Awhile back, more than a decade, some folk got the bright idea of musicalizing "Anna Karenina" for the Broadway stage.  That flopped so fast I can barely recall it, so if Tolstoy couldn't be musicalized. what makes anyone think Boris Pasternak can????????????

                              Remember, darlings, "Doctor Zhivago" was made into an iconic, David Lean film in 1965, (it will be 50 years old next year) in which Julie Christie defined, for all time, the role of  Lara.

                               For the best essay on the merits of the film, read Dwight MacDonald.  As for me, consider--

                                Remember, when Christie is seen for the first time on film as Lara?  She is an unknown passenger on a trolley, occupied by Zhivago, wrapped in a black scarf, save for those stunning Christie eyes.  For the rest of the time, Lara comes and goes in a series of veilings, unveilings, and distant to and away from shots, to visually define her enigmaticism.  This was intentional on Lean's part, because, when one thinks back upon the film, it is not the acting through dialogue that is recalled, but the visual motifs--the looks of torment and anguish, the panorama of the landscape shots that mirror characters' emotions.  "Doctor Zhivago" is a story of souls in torment during a tormented time, and it was Lean's brilliance to replicate Pasternak's poetic prose, by combining his own poetic skill with a camera, and Maurice Jarre's haunting score.  In some ways, the film almost plays out as a silent one; if Lean had been daring enough, I truly think he could have gotten away with making "Doctor Zhivago" as a silent movie.  And he had actors, like Christie, who could have met this challenge.

                                 But there ain't gonna be no Julie Christie or David Lean on the Broadway stage, girls!!!!!!!!!  I have seen some photos from this thing, and they look like outtakes from "Fiddler On The Roof?"  Is that all that is being aimed for????????????????

                                   Better to toss this turkey in the garbage, before the critics incinerate it  even more than I, ruining the money of investors, the careers of actors, and hours of creative time that might have been spent more productively!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      But who said all  show men were intelligent???????  Especially these days!!!!!!!!!!!!