Broadway's Great Comet Finds Josh Groban Replacement in Hamilton's Okieriete Onaodowan

Original Hamilton cast member Okieriete Onaodowan has been tapped to replace Josh Groban in Broadway's Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812. He will step into the role on July 3, starring as Pierre opposite Denée Benton as Natasha.

The show, which plays at the Imperial Theatre, currently stars Groban as Pierre opposite Denée Benton as Natasha, both in their Broadway debuts. The production also features Brittain Ashford as Sonya, Gelsey Bell as Princess Mary, Nicholas Belton as Bolonsky and Andrey, Nick Choksi as Dolokhov, Amber Gray as Helene, Grace McLean as Marya D., Paul Pinto as Balaga, Lucas Steele as Anatole, and Scott Stangland as the standby for Pierre. Rachel Chavkin directs.

The ensemble includes Sumayya Ali, Courtney Bassett, Josh Canfield, Kennedy Caughell, Ken Clark, Erica Dorfler, Lulu Fall, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Nick Gaswirth, Alex Gibson, Brad Giovanine, Billy Joe Kiessling, Mary Spencer Knapp, Blaine Alden Krauss, Reed Luplau, Brandt Martinez, Andrew Mayer, Mary Page Nance, Shoba Narayan, Azudi Onyejekwe, Pearl Rhein, Celia Mei Rubin, Heath Saunders, Ani Taj, Cathryn Wake, Katrina Yaukey, and Lauren Zakrin.

As previously announced, creator Dave Malloy will make his Broadway performing debut in the show this spring, stepping into the role of Pierre for ten performances across May and June 2017.

Inspired by a small section of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, The Great Comet was originally commissioned and developed at Ars Nova, in New York, where it had its world premiere in fall 2012, and was transferred to a custom-built venue in the Meatpacking District for summer 2013. The show and the entire venue was transferred to the Theater District where it continued its run into spring 2014. It played a pre-Broadway engagement in 2015 at American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts.

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