Get ready for bratty curls in your backyard, America. Cole Escola's hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! will hit the road for a national tour beginning in fall 2026. The tour will kick off from Hartford, Connecticut's Bushnell, before visiting Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., with more cities to be announced.

And no, to answer your next question, we don't know yet who will star in the title role. All casting is to be announced.

Escola's comedy centers on Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola's demented take (or as press notes put it, "through the lens of an idiot"), Mary Todd becomes a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.

The piece premiered at Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2024 in a run that was extended three times. It then transferred to Broadway later that year, where it's been breaking box-office records at the Lyceum Theatre; it became the first show in the theatre’s 121-year history to gross more than $1,000,000 in a single week. The Broadway bow won two 2025 Tony Awards, with Sam Pinkleton winning Best Direction of a Play and Escola, who originally starred as Mary, winning Best Leading Actor in a Play. The Broadway production has featured a starry roster of favorites as Mary since Escola's departure, including Hannah Solow, Betty Gilpin, Tituss Burgess, Jinkx Monsoon, and Jane Krakowski. The production has since crossed the pond to London's West End, starring Mason Alexander Park.

Pinkleton will return to reprise his Tony-winning direction, reuniting his original creative team, including scenic designer dots, costume designer Holly Pierson, lighting designer Cha See, sound designer and composer Daniel Kluger, sound designer Drew Levy, and wig designer Leah J. Loukas. Addison Heeren will serve as prop supervisor, and musical arrangements are by David Dabbon.

The play is produced by Kevin McCollum and Lucas McMahon, and Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia; with co-producers Bob Boyett, The Council, Jean Doumanian Productions, Nicole Eisenberg, Jay Marcus and George Strus, Irony Point, Richard Batchelder/Bradley Reynolds, Tyler Mount/Tommy Doyle, Nelson and Tao, Palomares and Rosenberg, and ShowTown Productions.

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