Betty Gilpin Will Take Over Broadway’s Oh, Mary! in 2025
Cole Escola’s campy comedy in regards to the famed first woman has prolonged its run with a brand new star.
Betty Gilpin
Emily Soto
Broadway’s Oh, Mary! is getting a brand new titular star. Glow star Betty Gilpin will succeed author Cole Escola as Mary within the campy comedy on the Lyceum Theatre starting January 21, 2025, a part of a newly introduced extension for the play. Gilpin will play a restricted eight-week engagement within the work, performing via March 16.
The already-multi-extended run was most just lately scheduled to finish January 19. Producers have now put tickets on sale via June 28, 2025, little question setting their sights on this season’s Tony Awards. Casting for after Gilpin’s engagement has not but been revealed.
Gilpin, quickly to be seen in Netflix’s American Primeval, is primarily a display actor, however has beforehand appeared onstage in Atlantic Theater Company’s I’m Gonna Pray for You so Hard and Signature Theatre’s Heartless. Oh, Mary! will function her Broadway debut.
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“I’ve worshiped on the altar of Cole for years, however seeing their billion-layered brilliance in Oh, Mary! was a brand new aircraft of demented genius I didn’t know was scientifically doable,” says Gilpin in an announcement. “I’m past honored to step in in order that Cole can get again to tending their uncared for passions: fracking and skincare. Diving in with the right [director] Sam Pinkleton to play Mary shall be one of many single best joys of my life, and I’ll say that to my two daughters’ faces.”
“I couldn’t be extra excited to see what Betty Gilpin does with the function of Mary,” provides Escola. “She’s an excellent comedic actress who understands the center of this character and is aware of the intense enterprise of being a idiot. I promise, you will not need to miss Betty as Mary.”
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Betty Gilpin
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The present formally opened on Broadawy on the Lyceum Theatre July 11 after starting previews June 26. Read the opinions right here.
Written by and (at the moment) starring Escola, Oh, Mary! facilities on well-known First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln within the weeks main as much as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola’s demented take (or as press notes put it, “via the lens of an fool”), Mary Todd turns into a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.
The piece premiered at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre earlier this 12 months in a run that was prolonged thrice. The manufacturing earned two 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards, together with Outstanding New American Play and Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway play, each for Escola. The present additionally received the 2024 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play.
The full Off-Broadway solid stayed with the mission for the Broadway run, together with Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln, Conrad Ricamora as Mary’s Husband, James Scully as Mary’s Teacher, Bianca Leigh as Mary’s Chaperone, and Tony Macht as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant. Rounding out the corporate are understudies Martin Landry, Hannah Solow, and Peter Smith.
Sam Pinkleton directs the Broadway run after staging the Off-Broadway premiere. His inventive group contains scenic designer dots, costume designer Holly Pierson, lighting designer Cha See, composer and co-sound designer Daniel Kluger, co-sound designer Drew Levy, wig designer Leah J. Loukas, and music arranger David Dabbon. Casting is by Henry Russell Bergstein. Bryan Bauer and Ryan Patrick Kane are manufacturing stage supervisor and assistant stage supervisor, respectively.
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