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Phillipa Soo as Natasha in
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
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It was the second act of
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy's pop-opera environmental adaption of a section of
War and Peace, performed in a restaurant setting near the West Side Highway after a successful run at Ars Nova. Natasha had just intensely confronted her cousin Sonya with the news that she plans to elope with Anatole Kuragin. Sonya is about to deliver her big ballad about how much she loves Natasha and will never allow her to make such a fool of herself. I hear shuffling behind me and a woman from the audience angrily stomps across the playing area--there's no other way to get out--and flings open the exit door right by where Sonya is about to deliver her song. The woman turns and points dramatically in the direction where she was sitting and the door closes. The show continues (I'll post my review later) and I do not find out until the next day what happened.
