A musical based on War and Peace sounds like a ludicrous proposition. And of course it is—which is why Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 only focuses on a 70-page interlude within Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. (Or so I’ve been told. Full disclosure: I’ve never read it.) But going off of Katie […] The post <i>Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812</i> is a celestial experience appeared first on Chicago Reader.