{"id":212987,"date":"2026-04-28T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:16:06","slug":"photos-maya-rudolph-is-officially-on-broadway-in-oh-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212987\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Maya Rudolph Is Officially On Broadway in Oh, Mary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudolph, Brannon, Leigh, and Jackson are playing an eight-week limited engagement through June 20.\u00a0Tickets are on sale through January 3, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Escola&#8217;s comedy centers on Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola&#8217;s demented take (or as press notes put it, &#8220;through the lens of an idiot&#8221;), Mary Todd becomes a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.<\/p>\n<p>The piece premiered at Off-Broadway&#8217;s Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2024 in a run that was extended three times. It then transferred to Broadway later that year, where it&#8217;s been breaking box-office records at the Lyceum Theatre; it became the first show in the theatre\u2019s 121-year history to gross more than $1,000,000 in a single week. <\/p>\n<p>The show earned two 2025 Tony Awards: Lead Actor in a Play for Escola and Director of a Play for <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/sam-pinkleton-vault-0000123059\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Pinkleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/sam-pinkleton-on-the-art-of-recasting-oh-mary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">READ: Director Sam Pinkleton on the Art of Recasting Oh, Mary!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, Mary&#8217;s creative team includes scenic designer dots, costume designer <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/holly-pierson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Pierson<\/a>, lighting designer <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/cha-see\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cha See<\/a>, composer and co-sound designer <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/daniel-kluger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Kluger<\/a>, co-sound designer <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/drew-levy-vault-0000021261\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Levy<\/a>, wig designer Leah J. Loukas, and music arranger <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/david-dabbon-vault-0000120634\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Dabbon<\/a>. Casting is by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/henry-russell-bergstein-vault-0000100169\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Russell Bergstein<\/a>. <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/john-c-moore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John C. Moore<\/a> and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lilian-mcgrail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lilian McGrail<\/a> are production stage manager and assistant stage manager, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rudolph, Brannon, Leigh, and Jackson are playing an eight-week limited engagement through June 20.\u00a0Tickets are on sale through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}