Ingrid Michaelson to Join Broadway's The Great Comet

Singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson will join the cast of Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 for a run July 3-August 13. She will take on the role of Sonya, replacing Brittain Ashford, who will return to the company August 16. (Michaelson will not perform August 3-6.)

Inspired by a small section of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, The Great Comet was created by Dave Malloy and is directed by Rachel Chavkin. The musical was originally commissioned and developed in New York at Ars Nova, 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 were transferred to the Theater District, where The Great Comet continued its run into spring 2014. It played a pre-Broadway engagement in 2015 at the American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts. The Broadway mounting opened November 14, 2016, at the Imperial Theatre.

The Broadway cast at that time will include Okieriete Onaodowan as Pierre and Denée Benton as Natasha alongside Brittain Ashford as Sonya, Gelsey Bell as Princess Mary, Nicholas Belton as Bolkonsky/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. Josh Groban concludes his run as Pierre on July 2.

The two-CD and digital albums are available from all participating retailers.

For tickets and more information, click here.