Oh, Mary! on Broadway Is Celebrating Abe Lincoln With $5 Tickets

The Cole Escola comedy will mark the 165th anniversary of Mary's Husband's inauguration March 4.

February 27, 2026 By Logan Culwell-Block

John Andrew Morrison and John Cameron Mitchell in *Oh, Mary!* (Emilio Madrid)

Broadway's Oh, Mary! will celebrate the upcoming 165th anniversary of the inauguration of Mary's Husband (aka Abraham Lincoln for the trivia fans out there) March 4 with a special $5 ticket lottery. Theatregoers will be able to buy 165 balcony seats at the special price in-person at the Lyceum Theatre box office on the day of the performance only, with each patron limited to two tickets. General rush and day-of sales will be offered after the ticket special sells out.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator and original star John Cameron Mitchell is currently leading the cast as Mary opposite John-Andrew Morrison (A Strange Loop) as Mary's Husband, Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) as Mary's Teacher, Jenn Harris as Mary's Chaperone, and Tony Macht as Mary's Husband's Assistant. The play's understudies are Hannah Solow, Martin Landry, and Julian Manjerico.

Cole 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 show earned two 2025 Tony Awards: Lead Actor in a Play for Escola and Director of a Play for Sam Pinkleton.

READ: Director Sam Pinkleton on the Art of Recasting Oh, Mary!

Oh, Mary's creative team includes scenic designer dots, costume designer Holly Pierson, lighting designer Cha See, composer and co-sound designer Daniel Kluger, co-sound designer Drew Levy, wig designer Leah J. Loukas, and music arranger David Dabbon. Casting is by Henry Russell Bergstein. Bryan Bauer and Ryan Patrick Kane are production stage manager and assistant stage manager, respectively.