'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' Is Long but Compelling
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” feels like a Russian novel. This is good, because the musical is based on Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” a book that would take far longer than the show’s two-and-a-half-hour duration to cover theatrically. (Let’s all be thankful that the company did not read the novel verbatim as Elevator Repair Service did “The Great Gat…