When Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! first opened Off-Broadway, it became an instant classic with a certain Bode-wearing, $8 iced latte-drinking population of gay men in Brooklyn. Then it transferred to Broadway, scoring a new viewer in the creatively curious Long Island commuter. Now, a new population has descended upon the Lyceum Theatre: A-list, mother-tier actresses.
On Sunday, the geniuses behind the Oh, Mary! X account posted a photo of Escola with some starry guests. Placing a hand softly on their shoulder was Amy Adams, who seemed to take a break from rueing the Oscars and fleeing J.D. Vance questions to see the hit play. Next to her was Melissa McCarthy, smiling buoyantly with a Playbill in hand. McCarthy even posted about it on Instagram, writing that the play “just might be the funniest thing I have ever seen!!!!!” The X account then analogized the photo to Mount Rushmore.
Oh, Mary!—which recently extended its Broadway run through November 10—reimagines the life of Mary Todd Lincoln as a wannabe cabaret star with an angry streak. Escola gained their own virality from a variety of moderately unhinged YouTube sketches; now, they wrote the play and star as Mary herself.
