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'The Great Comet' Original Cast Ensemble
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MARYA D.
Hold up your dresses and jump out quickly
SERVANT
Ladies
SONYA
Bare arms and shoulders
Brilliant uniforms
Pearls and silk
Glittering before our eyes
Feminine envy
A whole crowd of memories
Desires and emotions
Natasha, smooth your gown
Natasha, smooth your gown
NATASHA
I see I am pretty
Not a girl anymore
I've never felt like this before
Hundreds of eyes
Looking at my bare arms
My bare arms and neck
My bare arms and shoulders
Had not been seen in Moscow in many years
Everybody knew vaguely of Natasha's engagement
SONYA
MARYA D.
He has changed
Dear me, Michael Kirilovich has grown still stouter!
There's Boris and Julie, engaged
And Anna Mikhaylovna, what a headdress she has on!
HELENE
And is that Natasha
And is that Natasha
And is that Natasha
NATASHA
They are looking at me
They are talking about me!
They all like me so much
SERVANT
Announcing Fedya Dolokhov
He dominates Moscow's most brilliant young men
He stands in full view
Well aware he's attracting attention
Yet as much as ease as though he were in his own room
MARYA D.
SERVANT
Announcing Countess Helene Bezukhova
Beautiful, barely clothed
Plump bare shoulders, and much exposed neck
Round which she wears a double string of pearls
Helene and Dolokhov, arm in arm
PIERRE
No, I am enjoying myself at home this evening
NATASHA
Oh, that neck
Oh, those pearls
HELENE
So beautiful
What a charming young girl
So enchanting
NATASHA
I blush scarlet
MARYA D.
Countess Bezukhova, Pierre's wife
Have you been here long?
And where is dear Pierre?
He never used to forget us
NATASHA
Yes Pierre, that good man
A little sad, a little stout
He must come visit us
HELENE
I will implore
MARYA D.
There's a woman one should stay far away from
Now Natasha
NATASHA
With gems on their bare flesh
Turned their whole attention
(Two singers perform a scene from an avant-garde opera.
It is grotesque and amazing.)
NATASHA
Grotesque and amazing
I see painted cardboard
Queerly dressed actors
So false and unnatural
I'm ashamed and amused
And everyone else seems oblivious
Yes everyone feigns delight
SONYA
Natasha little by little
Began to pass into a state of intoxication
NATASHA
Oh I'd tickle you all if I could
Oh I'd tickle you all if I could
SONYA
And then
A rush of cold air
NATASHA & SONYA
An exceptionally handsome man walked in
With a confident yet courteous air
HELENE
This was Helene's brother
Anatole Kuragin
He moved with a swagger
Which would have been ridiculous
Had he not been so good-looking
His sword and spurs jangling
His handsome perfumed head held high
And he looked right at Natasha
ANATOLE
Mais Charmante
HELENE
NATASHA
How handsome he is
How intoxicating
SONYA
Horns and contrabass
Black cloaks and daggers in their hands
NATASHA
I turn around again and our eyes meet
He gazes straight into my eyes
He is talking about me
SONYA
Candles burning
A crimson throne
They all wave their arms
And everybody cheers
"Bravo, bravo!"
NATASHA
Everytime I look at him
He's looking at me
Everytime I look at him
He's looking at me
Everytime I look at him
SONYA
A storm of chromatic scales and diminished sevenths
With rapturous faces everyone was shouting
Screaming and shouting, "Bravo!"
Bravo, bravo
Bravo, bravo
Bravo, bravo
SONYA
And then
A rush of cole air
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