About the Show
2017 Tony Award Nominee for Best Musical
From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation.
Join us for this FULLY IMMERSIVE production where the audience will be transported to a Russian tavern in the early 19th century as the action unfolds in front of you, behind you, above you and around you. Even the musicians will be placed around the room, whether strategically in a corner or strolling by your table.
Following a critically exalted premiere at Ars Nova in New York City, a subsequent Off-Broadway transfer, and an acclaimed run on Broadway, this award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling.
This "vibrant, thrillingly imagined new musical" (NY Times) is "stunning and blazingly original" (Entertainment Weekly) and brings us just inches from Tolstoy’s brash young lovers as they light up Moscow in a “heaven-sent fireball" (NY Times) of romance and passion. "One of the decade's best musicals" (Time Out NY), The Great Comet has "rousing music and ravishing performances"
Meet The Cast
“I couldn’t be more pleased with the cast we have chosen for Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812. This casting process has been the longest and most intense one that we have ever embarked upon. We saw over 750 people for 18 roles over the course of three months. As always, we like to cast both locally and nationally, and I’d like to do a special shout out to those local actors joining us for this production: Gail Becker, Kolten Bell, Ashton Florence, Josh Hayes, Benji Heying, Laetitia Hollard, Andrew Linden, Erin McConnell, and Sabra Michelle.
What’s always an extra special moment for us at CCT is when we have cast members who have taken our CCT Conservatory intensive, “Find Your Light” and are now joining us in one of our mainstage shows. Here’s to the Find Your Light-ers: Ashton Florence, Kolten Bell, Benji Heying, and Laetitia Hollard. I’m also thrilled to have Travis Leland, who is returning to us after playing Captain Phoebus in our 2018 production of Hunchback of Notre Dame, back in Madison to play Pierre!”
— Andrew Abrams, Artistic Director
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* - The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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