drink with me my love

this is my Great Comet sideblog! my main blog is: @kubo-kubo

[lesbianelizabethfrankenstein]

helene and dolokhov arm and arm pierre the cuckold sits at home pierre the cuckold sits at home the poor man

[moon-halation]

And because I loose it too often, one of my favourite backstage photos of Lucas Steele during the off-broadway production

[shweppes]

my bf and I have been listening to the great comet again and to say I’m overanalyzing is a bit of an understatement hahaha

SO we know some liberties are taken when Malloy adapted the musical from war and peace, an important part being the reason for Andrey’s absence (also his widowed CHILDREN!!). In TCG, Andrey is fighting in the Napoleonic wars, whereas in W&P he’s just…traveling abroad for a year???? I feel like this change affected the way we perceive Natasha’s character more than anything. Her decision to elope with Anatole is much more understandable within the context of W&P but ALSO:

When I was listening to Letters and also Pierre and Andrey I noticed nobody really mentions any letters from Andrey (unless I’m mistaken!). We don’t even know who he told that he was returning from the war!! I’m assuming it’s implied it was his family or Pierre but like… THERE IS NO MENTION, therefore when Natasha is suddenly receiving letter after letter from Anatole (Dolokhov ghostwriting them lol), I can completely understand why it makes her feel like she is actually loved compared to Andrey’s distant and restrained version of it. Andrey in fact returns Natasha’s letters to Pierre but there isn’t really any mention of her needing to return any of his letters when Pierre visits (to be fair she isn’t asked to return Anatole’s either but the difference is we do actually know of their existence compared to Andrey’s LOL)

Anatole was upfront, direct, and passionate, in a way that Andrey never could be. The two men are complete juxtapositions of each other

SPOILERS FROM W&P:

I think it’s interesting knowing how different these two are and how they both are presumed dead after the invasion, like they were both doomed to die by not loving Natasha lololol OOPS

Natasha and Pierre finally getting together made my heart so happy 🥹 AND DAVE MALLOY’S epilogue omg he knew we were starving ALSO the Donmar warehouse’s production was so good I wish London was real wtf

Now going back to Pierre, he seems like the right amount of control and passion Natasha needed the whole time, she needed someone comforting like Andrey but not distant, someone passionate and loving like Anatole, but not so volatile, and there lies Old Pierre :’)

Considering Pierre’s loveless marriage to Helene, it just was very satisfying that too characters with good hearts that just want to love someone good are able to find each other and AGHHHHHHH anyways I’ll shut up now

[localcryptic]

...it seems to me that this comet feels me

[allthatlovesabout]

listening to natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 for the first time and i just looked up pierre's age expecting him to be like 50 at least. only to discover that the guy who is constantly singing about how terrified he is that he's wasted his entire life and will never do anything meaningful or love anyone truly. is 27 years-old.

[vonlipvig]

fun date idea <3

[meringuehearts]

raise your hand if you’re a moscow lady who is mad about him

[charactersmashorpass-2]

"Kind, funny dad with big arms (he's the one in front in the picture).."

smash or pass: yoon sang-hwa (train to busan)

smash

pass

Voting ended onApr 22, 2024

[belalugosi1882]

Bela Lugosi smoking on the set of Dracula 1931

[anonymusical]

i don't think i would buy a chandelier because it reminded me of great comet. that really doesn't sound like me

[gaygollum]

but then why am i screaming? why am i shaking? oh, god, was there something that i missed? did i squander my divinity? was happiness within me the whole time?

[kalimbasynth]

bro we are living in the wrong timeline because the great comet was supposed to become The Les Mis Of This Generation and run for decades with every bway/west end actor playing multiple roles in the show over their careers

[timecomets]

Oh Pierre

[yourfaveiskenough]

is pierre bezukhov from the great comet kenough...

Pierre Bezukhov from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 is Kenough!

[abandonedmiserable]

the opera

[every-character-ever-poll]

PIERRE BEZUKHOV - War and Peace

What do you think of this character?

I know him (positive)

I know him (neutral/it's complicated)

I know him (negative)

I have heard of him

I do not know him

SEE RESULTS

Voting ended onJul 31, 2023

PROPAGANDA:

he's one of the main characters of war and peace! he's silly and probably autistic! his wife divorces him even though it's 1812! he went on the loves napoleon to tries to assassinate napoleon pipeline! he also has something going on with andrei if that accounts for anything??? they're really gay actually i think it's a commonly agreed on thing. he becomes a prisoner of war and then stops having an existential crisis. because for the entire book he has an existential crisis. (also he marries andrei's ex-fiancee but that is a story for another time) basically be nice to the classic literature blorbo because he is a mood and i love him :)

(The images included are from The Great Comet, the stage musical adaptation of War and Peace)

[hauntthenarrative]

Haunting the Narrative Round 1

Andrey Nikolayevich Bolkonsky (Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812) vs. Connor Murphy (Dear Evan Hansen)

Andrey Nikolayevich Bolkonsky

Connor Murphy

Voting ended onJul 9, 2023

Haunting the narrative means that the character’s absence heavily impacts the plot. They’re not present when their influence is most strongly felt, whether they’re alive or dead!