{"id":472016,"date":"2026-03-12T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:29:10","slug":"maya-rudolph-sets-broadway-debut-in-oh-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472016\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Rudolph Sets Broadway Debut In &#8216;Oh, Mary!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSix-time Emmy winner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/maya-rudolph\/\" id=\"auto-tag_maya-rudolph\" data-tag=\"maya-rudolph\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Rudolph<\/a> will make her <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> debut this spring in Cole Escola\u2019s hit comedy Oh, Mary! She\u2019ll play the title character, Mary Todd Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRudolph (Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids) will begin a limited eight-week engagement at the Lyceum Theatre on Tuesday, April 28, (through June 20). The casting was announced today by producers Kevin McCollum &amp; Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie &amp; Carlee Briglia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cEver since I was a little girl I have dreamed of being Cole Escola,\u201d said Rudolph in a statement. \u201cOh, Mary! is the funniest play I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of plays, you\u2019d be surprised. It\u2019s such an honor to play the role of Mary, especially after so many iconic Marys have come before me. So making my Broadway debut in the role of a lifetime \u2013 as a miserable, suffocated, alcoholic woman \u2013 is a real dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAdditionally, the production announced that the Broadway production will extend through January 3, 2027, running alongside the West End production, now extended through July 18, 2026, at the Trafalgar Theatre in London, and the North American tour, which begins in Hartford, Connecticut, in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRudolph will be the latest in a growing roster of Broadway Marys, a list that began with playwright Escola and has included Jinkx Monsoon, Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess, Betty Gilpin, and Hannah Solow. The current Mary is John Cameron Mitchell, whose engagement runs through April 26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by 2025 Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024, and has since broken its own box office record 12 times to become the first show of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-time Emmy winner Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut this spring in Cole Escola\u2019s hit comedy Oh,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15000,96,59,168648,103482,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-472016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-broadway","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-maya-rudolph","tag-oh-mary","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472016","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=472016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}