{"id":482056,"date":"2026-10-01T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482056\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:28:12","slug":"oh-mary-is-a-blue-funny-farce-about-mary-and-abe-lincoln-san-diego-jewish-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482056\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oh Mary!\u2019 is a blue, funny farce about Mary and Abe Lincoln \u2013 San Diego Jewish World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sandi Masori in San Diego<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-184303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Samdi-Masori-9-25-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\"  \/>Sandi Masori<\/p>\n<p>Oh Mary! the current show from Broadway San Diego is different than most of the shows we see there. It\u2019s irreverent, bawdy and fabulous! But it\u2019s not really a musical as we usually know them. The beginning is a farce, and the end is a cabaret show. This is definitely not a show for the kids, but I loved every laugh-filled moment of it.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-191113 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/oh-mary-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"334\"  \/>Michael Lepore, Alaska Thunderf*ck, Pooya Mohseni, and John-Andrew Morrison in OH, MARY! First National Tour. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade.<\/p>\n<p>The one-act production, written by Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton reimagines the life and marriage of President Lincoln. In this version, Lincoln (John-Andrew Morrison) (who is billed as Mary\u2019s husband) is still president, but is also a closeted gay man in a toxic marriage with a shrewish drunk wannabe cabaret singer, Mary (Alaska Thunderf*ck). Lincoln is not-so-secretly having a \u201cspecial friendship\u201d with his assistant (Michael Lepore).<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln hires \u201cMary\u2019s chaperone\u201d (Pooya Mohseni) to keep her busy and away from alcohol, but that backfires. Then he hires an actor, John Wilkes Booth (Wesley Taylor), to be her teacher. You can guess where this is going to go\u2026 but wait! You\u2019d be wrong. I\u2019m not going to tell you how it ends though, so you\u2019ll just have to go see it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a high LPM ration (laugh per minute) and though the humor is slapstick and blue, it\u2019s a good time.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the action happens in the President\u2019s office, though there are also a couple of other sets. The sets are nice but it\u2019s really Thunderf*ck that makes it all happen. She is captivating both as Mary and as Mary the cabaret singer, and it\u2019s hard to take your eyes off her, and why would you want to? She\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n<p>The show ended way too soon, clocking in at only 70-80 min or so.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Mary! plays only through Oct 4, so get in while you can.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Associate Editor Sandi Masori is a theater and food reviewer for San Diego Jewish World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sandi Masori in San Diego Sandi Masori Oh Mary! the current show from Broadway San Diego is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-482056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482056","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=482056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}