SURVIVOR Star Josh Canfield Joins Cast of Broadway-Bound DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

The new Broadway musical DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, will star Tam Mutu 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, and Paul Nolan (Jesus Chris Superstar) as political radical Pasha Antipov. BroadwayWorld has just learned that Josh Canfield, who appeared in the current season of CBS' SURVIVOR: San Juan del Sur, will star as 'Liberius' in the upcoming production.

Additional casting to be announced soon.

Canfield is an international Actor/Singer/Writer/Pianist and has performed in London, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cyprus, and the U.S.A. He graduated from Cedarville University with his B.A. and then went on to earn a M.F.A. from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. Josh is currently working on his third original musical which is entitled I Am Zombie, and was the Anatole standby in the off-Broadway hit Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.

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), with tickets going on sale Monday, December 1, 2014, through Telecharge.com (212-239-6200). 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 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.

For more information visit: www.doctorzhivagobroadway.com