Broadway<\/a> run, will play the title role from Sept. 30 through Oct. 12.<\/p>\n\n\tThe role of Mary Todd Lincoln was originated by Cole Escola, who won a Tony Award for their portrayal, and also wrote the play. However, several actors have stepped into the role throughout the play\u2019s run, including Tituss Burgess and Betty Gilpin.<\/p>\n
\n\tKrakowski returns to the Broadway stage following her Tony-nominated performance in the 2016 revival of She Loves Me. She won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Carla in the Broadway revival of Nine, and a Tony nomination for Grand Hotel. Other Broadway credits include Company, Once Upon a Mattress, Tartuffe and Starlight Express. She won an Olivier Award for Guys and Dolls in the West End.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThank you, Cole, for giving us this madcap work of genius, directed to perfection by Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton,\u201d Krakowski said. \u201cI am so honored to slip into the bratty curls previously worn by (my Tony Award winning zaddy) Cole Escola, (my sister wife) Betty Gilpin, (my comedy brother) Tituss Burgess, and (mother) Jinkx Monsoon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tDirected by Sam Pinkleton, who won a Tony for his direction, Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024. The show has broken its own box office record twelve times, and became the first show of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its investment.\u00a0The play now has tickets on sale through July 5, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Krakowski will take over the lead role in Oh, Mary! this winter.\u00a0 The 30 Rock star will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15000,6491,96,15001,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-110390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-theater","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}