It was announced today that Cole Escola’s record-breaking hit comedy Oh, Mary! will continue its run on Broadway, with Emmy Award-nominated actor Betty Gilpin (Glow, Netflix’s upcoming American Primeval) taking over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln from Escola beginning Tuesday, January 21, 2025, for a limited 8-week engagement through Sunday, March 16, 2025. The show, currently running at the Lyceum Theatre, has released a new block of tickets, with performances now on sale through Saturday, June 28, 2025.
While Gilpin is no stranger to the stage, having appeared Off-Broadway in Atlantic Theater Company’s 2015 production of I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard, Signature Theatre’s 2012 production of Heartless, and more, Oh, Mary! marks her Broadway debut.
“I have worshiped at the altar of Cole for years, but seeing their billion layered brilliance in Oh, Mary! was a new plane of demented genius I didn’t know was scientifically possible,” Gilpin said. “I am beyond honored to step in so that Cole can get back to tending their neglected passions: fracking and skincare. Diving in with the perfect Sam Pinkleton to play Mary will be one of the single greatest joys of my life, and I will say that to my two daughters’ faces.”
Written by Cole Escola and directed by Tony Award nominee Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024 at the Lyceum Theatre, where it became the first show in the theater’s 121-year history to gross more than $1,000,000 in a single week. Oh, Mary! has since broken its own box office record ten times, most recently the week ending December 1, 2024, grossing $1,286,789.
“I could not be more excited to see what Betty Gilpin does with the role of Mary,” Escola said. “She’s a brilliant comedic actress who understands the heart of this character and knows the serious business of being a fool. I promise, you won’t want to miss Betty as Mary.”
Oh, Mary! currently stars Escola as a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, alongside 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, with Peter Smith, Hannah Solow, and Martin Landry completing the company. The entire production is directed by Sam Pinkleton. Oh, Mary! is produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia.