Summer Camp
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
*NOTE: This is a PG-13 production and includes some mature language and content.
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 is appropriate for serious, experienced upperclassmen in high school and college students who want to take their acting, singing, and dancing to the next level. Students are required to participate in a rigorous audition process.
Not everyone who auditions will be cast (max of 25 students ages 16-20 at the time of performance). We expect students to bring a professional level of effort and dedication to each rehearsal and a higher degree of learning and technical application to performance.
This Camp includes a unique rehearsal schedule:
- Tuesdays/Wednesdays, May 26 & 27, June 2, 3, 9 10, 16, & 17 from 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
- Sundays, May 31, June 7, 14, from 1:00 – 5:00 pm
- Sunday, June 21, from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Monday – Friday, June 22 – 26 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Show Description:
From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation. Following a critically exalted premiere at Ars Nova in New York City, a subsequent off-Broadway transfer, and an acclaimed run on Broadway, this award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling.
We are not allowed to make a video recording of this production.
Artistic Team:
Summer Camp Show
May 26 - June 26, 2026
Open to students entering:
Grades 11 - College
Camp Location:
PAA – County Line
5690 County Line Place,
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Auditions:
Initial auditions will be submitted via video by April 28th. Invited callbacks are on Saturday, May 16. Details will be sent upon registration.
Performance(s):
Friday, June 26 at 6:00 pm
Saturday, June 27 at 6:00 pm
Sunday, June 28 at 2:00 pm
PAA – County Line
5690 County Line Place,
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Camp Price: $695 + $13 processing fee
Show Credits:
By Dave Malloy
Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/orchestrator. He has written fourteen musicals, including Moby-Dick, a four-part musical reckoning with Melville’s classic novel; Octet, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations, including Best Musical, Score, Book, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet, a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey; Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”; Black Wizard/Blue Wizard, an escapist RPG fantasy; Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage, an anti-academia rock opera; Beardo, a reinterpretation of the Rasputin myth; Sandwich, a musical about killing animals; and Clown Bible, Genesis to Revelation told through clowns.
He has won two Obie Awards, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, a Theater World Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, an ASCAP New Horizons Award and a Jonathan Larson Grant, and has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre. He lives in Brooklyn. www.davemalloy.com
Madeline Shaffer