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Shows · Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 · Imperial Theatre, 2016

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, 2016

Opened November 14, 2016

Closed September 3, 2017

336 performances

Imperial Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 69th longest run.

Other stagings of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 1 more

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Who was in it127 named

Nicholas Belton as Andrey
Sumayya Ali as Ensemble
Josh Canfield as Ensemble
Erica Dorfler as Ensemble
Lulu Fall as Ensemble
Nick Gaswirth as Ensemble
Reed Luplau as Opera Dancer
Katrina Yaukey as Ensemble
Shoba Narayan as Ensemble
Mary Page Nance as Opera Dancer
Naomi Kiana Gomez as Natasha Rostova
Cooper Grodin as Pierre Bezukhov
Jamie Muscato as Anatole Kuragin
Maimuna Memon as Sonya Rostova
Kaye Tuckerman as Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova
Cat Simmons as Hélène Bezukhova
Daniel Krikler as Fedya Dolokhov
Apollo Ziegfeld as Andrey Bolkonsky
Chloe Saracco as Princess Mary Bolkonskaya
Cedric Neal as Balaga
Denée Benton as Natasha
Dave Malloy as Pierre
Brittain Ashford as Sonya
Gelsey Bell as Mary
Nick Choksi as Dolokhov
Paul Pinto as Balaga
Courtney Bassett as Ensemble
Ashley Pérez Flanagan as Ensemble
Alex Gibson as Ensemble
Billy Joe Kiessling as Ensemble
Andrew Mayer as Ensemble
Azudi Onyejekwe as Ensemble
Pearl Rhein as Ensemble
Heath Saunders as Ensemble
Cathryn Wake as Ensemble
Lauren Zakrin as Ensemble
Brad Giovanine as Ensemble
Kennedy Caughell as Ensemble
Ken Wulf Clark as Ensemble
Paloma Garcia-Lee as Ensemble
Mary Spencer Knapp as Ensemble
Brandt Martinez as Ensemble
Ani Taj as Opera Dancer
Dave Malloy as Book
Leo Tolstoy as Adapted from War and Peace by
Rachel Chavkin as Director
Sam Pinkleton as Choreographer
Sonny Paladino as Music Supervision
Or Matias as Music Director
John Miller as Music Coordinator
Mimi Lien as Scenic Design
Paloma Young as Costume Design
Bradley King as Lighting Design
Nicholas Pope as Sound Design
Leah J. Loukas as Hair & Wig Design
Amy Jean Wright as Makeup Designer
Stewart/Whitley as Casting
Sammi Cannold as Associate Director
Rachel M. Stevens as Assistant Director
Chloe Treat as Associate Choreographer
Flannery Gregg as Assistant Choreographer
Paloma Garcia-Lee as Dance Captain
Brandt Martinez as Assistant Dance Captain
Lauren Zakrin as Assistant Dance Captain
Matthew Doebler as Associate Music Director
Mike Casteel Music Service as Music Copying
Jason Ardizzone-West as Associate Scenic Designer
Jason Lajka as Assistant Scenic Designer
David Hyman as Associate Costume Designer
David Kaley as Assistant Costume Designer
Ashley Rose Horton as Assistant Costume Designer
Nick Solyom as Associate Lighting Designer
Bailey Costa as Assistant Lighting Designer
Sam Lerner as Associate Sound Designer
Charles Coes as Associate Sound Designer
Beth Lake as Assistant Sound Designer
Stephen Dee as Assistant Sound Designer
Kaitlyn Adams Yurko as Assistant Hair & Wig Designer
Hudson Theatrical Associates as Technical Supervision
Karyn Meek as Production Stage Manager
Brian Bogin as Stage Manager
Michael Wilhoite as Assistant Stage Manager
Amy Marsico as Assistant Stage Manager
Noah Mease as Props Designer
Turner Smith as Fight Director
Azudi Onyejekwe as Fight Captain
Baseline Theatrical as General Management
Andy Jones as General Management
Roseanna Sharrow as Company Manager
Jeffrey Feola as Associate Company Manager
Print Shop PR as General Press Representative
Nancy Alligood as Press Representative
Sarah Sgro as Press Representative
Claire Wojciechowski as Press Representative
Nicole Capatasto as Press Representative
Matt Ross as Press Representative
SpotCo as Advertising
Chad Batka as Production Photographer
Howard & Janet Kagan as Producer
Paula Marie Black as Producer
Carole Shorenstein Hays as Producer
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Mary Lu Roffe and Susan Gallin as Producer
Diana DiMenna as Producer
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John Logan as Producer
Lisa Matlin as Producer
Margie and Bryan Weingarten as Producer
Daveed D. Frazier as Producer
Argyle Productions/Jim Kierstead as Producer
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American Repertory Theater as Producer
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Creative team

Director
Rachel Chavkin
Choreographer
Sam Pinkleton
Orchestrations
Dave Malloy

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical
Nominated

Around this production

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (or simply The Great Comet) is a sung-through musical adaptation of a 70-page segment from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. The show was written by composer, lyricist, playwright, orchestrator Dave Malloy and originally directed by Rachel Chavkin. It is based on Volume II, Part V of Tolstoy's novel, focusing on Natasha's romance with Anatole and Pierre's search for meaning in his life. The musical originally ran at the Ars Nova in 2012, followed by 2013 stagings in both the Meatpacking District and the Theater District of Manhattan, a 2014 Spanish-language staging in Quito, Ecuador, and a 2015 remounting at the American Repertory Theater in Ca…

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