dave malloy wrote natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812.
dave malloy wrote natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812.
who wrote natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812?
dave malloy
natasha, pierre &amp; the great comet of 1812









































natasha, pierre & the great comet of 1812 is a sung-through musical adaptation of a 70-page segment from leo tolstoy's "war and peace" written by composer/lyricist dave malloy and directed by rachel chavkin. it is based on volume 2, part 5 of tolstoy's novel "war and peace", focusing on natasha's affair with anatole and pierre's search for meaning in his life.
natasha, pierre & the great comet of 1812
marya d. calls on pierre in the middle of the night ("a call to pierre"), begging him to handle the crisis, and pierre finally learns that the object of anatole's conquest is natasha. marya d. finds out that anatole is married and tells a grief-stricken natasha. pierre, outraged, searches for anatole ("find anatole"). when pierre finds anatole, he comes close to attacking him in rage, but instead gives him money and orders him to leave moscow (”pierre & anatole”). natasha poisons herself with arsenic ("natasha very ill") but lives. the next day andrey returns. pierre explains the scandal to him and asks him to be compassionate, but andrey is unable to forgive natasha and will not ask for her hand in marriage again ("pierre & andrey"). finally, pierre visits natasha ("pierre & natasha") and he comforts the distraught girl, giving her hope. after their meeting, pierre experiences a moment of enlightenment himself while seeing the great comet of 1812 in the night sky (“the great comet of 1812”).
natasha, pierre & the great comet of 1812