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<\/p>\n\u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars\u201d winner Alaska Thunderf\u2014 will step into the spotlight this fall as the newest star to take on the title role of Mary in Cole Escola\u2019s Tony Award-winning comedy \u201cOh, Mary!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know how when in the \u201990s in the Olympics, they would ask the winner \u2018What are you gonna do now that you won the gold medal?\u2019 and they\u2019d say \u2018I\u2019m going to Disneyland.\u2019\u201d Alaska said in a recent interview. \u201cI literally feel like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even after being cast, Alaska said it didn\u2019t fully sink in until she began doing press for the production. Now, she\u2019d celebrate with a flip if she could do one. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really happening, it\u2019s just the best role, in the best play ever and I\u2019m honored and I\u2019m excited and I\u2019m thrilled and I can\u2019t wait,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The dark comedy follows a miserable Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading to the assassination of her husband, who will be played by the Tony Award-winning actor J. Harrison Ghee. The one-act play reimagines the forgotten life of Mrs. Lincoln with absurdist comedy.<\/p>\n
Since its 2024 premiere, the play written by comedian Escola \u2014 who also originated the title role \u2014 has become a Broadway sensation, earning $1 million in a single week and breaking its own box office record 13 times.<\/p>\n
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\u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d star Alaska will play Mary Todd Lincoln in \u201cOh, Mary!\u201d at the Ahmanson Theatre this fall.<\/p>\n
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The stage production received critical acclaim and earned multiple Tony Awards including best direction of a play for Sam Pinkleton and best actor in a play for Escola. <\/p>\n
Alaska is joining a list of famed comedic actors who have played Mary Todd Lincoln, including Maya Rudolph, Meg Stalter, Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski. She isn\u2019t letting the hype surrounding the show make her nervous, and said she remains focused on embracing the role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to wear the sacred bratty curls and the hallowed hoop skirt,\u201d Alaska said.<\/p>\n
The actor, who was also a finalist in \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d earned an Outer Critics Circle Award for her Off-Broadway play \u201cDrag: The Musical,\u201d which she co-wrote alongside Tomas Costanza and Ash Gordon. <\/p>\n
Alaska is thrilled to play opposite Ghee, who won the 2023 Tony Award for best leading actor in a musical for their role in \u201cSome Like It Hot.\u201d Ghee said in a statement that they are excited to \u201cset the road on fire with this electrifyingly hilarious play\u201d alongside Alaska.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have seen Oh, Mary! three times and relished the beauty of this show \u2014 how different people shine so brightly in these roles, and yet you see the influence of Cole all over the production,\u201d Ghee said. \u201cThe opportunity to get a crack at Mary\u2019s Husband is beyond a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, Mary!\u201d runs Nov. 10 through Dec. 6 at the Ahmanson Theatre. Additional casting will be announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars\u201d winner Alaska Thunderf\u2014 will step into the spotlight this fall as the newest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[157446,167424,167423,167421,9021,44240,167420,4264,48,52,51,47,50,49,41646,167419,167422,5927,103899,167418,315],"class_list":["post-418635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ahmanson-theatre","tag-cole-escola","tag-comedian-escola","tag-comedic-actor","tag-drag-race","tag-good-play","tag-good-role","tag-husband","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mary","tag-mary-todd-lincoln","tag-opposite-ghee","tag-production","tag-rupaul","tag-star-alaska","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}