Broadway's Great Comet, Starring Josh Groban, Announces Broadway Home
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The previously announced Broadway production of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, has found its home theater. The musical will begin performances this October at the Imperial Theatre, current home of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's classic show Les Misérables.
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 will star music superstar Josh Groban as Pierre and Denée Benton, who recently starred in the American Repertory Theater run of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, as Natasha. Both performers are making their Broadway debuts. Rachel Chavkin will direct.
Inspired by a section of Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 follows Natasha Rostova as she awaits the arrival of her fiancé from the front lines and falls under the spell of Moscow and the city's most charming rogue. The immersive production had its premiere at Ars Nova in the fall of 2012 and later moved to a specially created venue called Kazino in the meatpacking district. After critical acclaim, producers transferred the production and its custom venue to the theater district, before a late 2015 run at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based American Repertory Theatre.
During the original New York engagements, the roles of Natasha and Pierre were created by Hamilton's Phillipa Soo and the show's author, Malloy, respectively.
