{"id":770558,"date":"2026-07-18T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:58:09","slug":"meg-stalter-returns-to-broadways-oh-mary-greets-stage-door-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770558\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Stalter Returns To Broadway&#8217;s &#8216;Oh, Mary!&#8217;, Greets Stage Door Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/meg-stalter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meg-stalter\" data-tag=\"meg-stalter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meg Stalter<\/a> once again donned the bratty, curled wig of Mary Todd Lincoln last night, returning to her <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> debut performance as the lead in Cole Escola\u2019s Oh, Mary! after a weeklong absence due to bronchitis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJust prior to the Friday evening performance, Stalter posted an Instagram Story photo of herself, apparently in her dressing room at Broadway\u2019s Lyceum Theatre, with the note, \u201cPlanning on being back in the show tonight as long as my voice doesn\u2019t give out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAll went as planned. Subsequent after-show additions to her Instagram Story included re-posts of audience member IGs with photos and brief video clips of the Hacks actor taking her bows at curtain to a standing ovation. \u201cBronchitis has nothing on this bitch!,\u201d captioned one fan, while another noted, that Stalter \u201cwas literally born to play Mary. A perfect performance! Brava!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe also posted photos on her regular IG page:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStalter\u2019s recent absence from the show \u2013 which she joined July 6 just a week before falling ill \u2013 prompted bizarre internet speculation that the comedian had actually skipped the show to visit New York\u2019s Comedy Cellar comedy club, a rumor apparently started on Reddit when one Redditer, apparently, saw someone at the club who resembled Stalter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a whole thread on Reddit I guess about how people think I was at the comedy cellar and I\u2019d just like to go on record saying I was not at the comedy cellar,\u201d Stalter said in an Instagram post. \u201cI\u2019m very sick and have no voice but doing everything I can to be back in the shows this weekend. love you forever stop saying I was at the comedy cellar please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStalter revisited the rumor \u2013 if, it seems, silently \u2013 when she greeted fans at the Lyceum\u2019s stage door after the show Friday night, signing Playbills and sporting a handwritten sign hanging from her neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe Princess is on vocal rest!!,\u201d the sign read. \u201cBut she was NEVER at the Comedy Cellar!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStalter\u2019s run in the show ends September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meg Stalter once again donned the bratty, curled wig of Mary Todd Lincoln last night, returning to her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[21540,236,88,327792,162156],"class_list":["post-770558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-broadway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-meg-stalter","tag-oh-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}