As the lights dim and the first notes of the prelude to Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 resonate through the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities' black-box space, audiences are immediately drawn in by a line that sets the tone for the entire performance: "There's a war going on out there somewhere." At first the introduction could simply be seen as an innocuous reference to Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, on which the musical is based…
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