Meg Stalter Sets Broadway Debut in Oh, Mary!
Have you seen the ominous white smoke rising from Broadway’s Lyceum? No, it is not on hearth. We have information of a brand new Mary. Hacks star and on-line comic Meg Stalter (of “Hi, gay” fame) will be a part of the manufacturing, making her Broadway debut, starting July 6 for a 10-week restricted engagement. Stalter will succeed present star Maya Rudolph in the function following her July 5 remaining bow.
News of the casting was shared on social media. Further casting for Stalter’s run (which is able to proceed via September 12) is to be introduced.
“When I first met Cole Schoolthey said, ‘I thought I was too old to feel this excited and giddy about a new friend,’ and that’s exactly how I felt when I met Mary Todd Lincoln for the first time,” says Stalter in a statement. “I’ve never seen myself in a character the way I see myself in Mary, which is strange because I don’t even drink, but that’s what Cole’s beautiful work does to you—makes you feel incredibly excited and seen at the same time, like a little kid meeting a new friend. I’ve been in love with Cole’s brain, heart, and work since the moment I had the privilege of experiencing it, and it’s the prize of a lifetime to get to be in the best play to ever be written! Cole, despite our insane public breakup in 2018, I love you, thank you for making my dreams come true.”
Rudolph is presently starring in the title function alongside returning forged members Bianca Leigh as Mary’s Chaperone, Phillip James Brannon as Mary’s Husband, and Cheyenne Jackson as Mary’s Teacher. Tony Macht continues as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant, with understudies Hannah Solow, Martin Landryand Julian Manjerico rounding out the corporate.
Tickets are on sale via January 3, 2027.
Escola’s comedy facilities on Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks main as much as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola’s demented take (or as press notes put it, “through the lens of an idiot”), Mary Todd turns into a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.
The piece premiered at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theater in 2024 in a run that was prolonged 3 times. It then transferred to Broadway later that yr, the place it has been breaking box-office data on the Lyceum Theatre; it grew to become the primary present in the theatre’s 121-year historical past to gross greater than $1,000,000 in a single week.
The present earned two 2025 Tony Awards: Lead Actor in a Play for Escola and Director of a Play for Sam Pinkleton.
READ: Director Sam Pinkleton on the Art of Recasting Oh Mary!
Oh Mary‘s artistic crew contains scenic designer dots, costume designer Holly Piersonlighting designer Cha Seecomposer and co-sound designer Daniel Klugerco-sound designer Drew Levywig designer Leah J. Loukas, and music arranger David Dabbon. Casting is by Henry Russell Bergstein. John C. Moore and Lilian McGrail are manufacturing stage supervisor and assistant stage supervisor, respectively.