Oh, Mary! will welcome back some familiar faces to the Lyceum Theatre. The show announced on Instagram that Phillip James Brannon and original cast member James Scully will re-join the company as, respectively, Mary's Husband and Mary's Teacher for performances September 30-October 12.
That run coincides with the first full-time stint for Hannah Solow, usually the understudy for Mary, in the title role, also September 30-October 12. Solow is set to succeed current star Jinkx Monsoon, whose final performance is September 28, and star until the arrival of Jane Krakowski, due to play an eight-week limited run beginning October 14. Further casting for Krakowski's run is to be announced.
Brannon was the first to succeed original star Conrad Ricamora in the role, playing Abraham to the Mary Todd of Betty Gilpin and Tituss Burgess and later returning for a brief return run opposite Monsoon. Brannon and Scully will respectively succeed Kumail Nanjiani and Michael Urie, both taking their final bows alongside Monsoon September 28.
Along with Monsoon, Nanjiani, and Urie, Cole Escola's wild comedy take on the famous First Lady currently stars Jenn Harris as Mary's Chaperone and Martin Landry as Mary's Husband's Assistant.
Oh, Mary! 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 opened on Broadway last summer, 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 (who recently departed the play) and Director of a Play for Sam Pinkleton.
The play's understudies are Solow, Julian Manjerico, and Sean Peter Forte.
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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.
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