Bowen Yang formally has his eyes on some bratty curls. The SNL favourite and Wicked movie alum would be the subsequent title star in Broadway’s Oh, Mary!, with a 12-week engagement to start September 15 on the Lyceum Theatre, per a posting on the present’s official Instagram.
“My friendship with Cole has brought me many places over the years: late-night pizzerias, cross-borough social-distance walks, a tough production ofLes Misérables sung in Dutch,” says Yang in an announcement. “But being part of their deranged and profound masterpiece, Oh, Mary!, is my favorite one by far. I will spend the rest of my life thanking them for the best Broadway debut a cis gay guy with limited singing ability could ask for.”
Yang will succeed present star Meg Stalter, who started her personal run July 6 and is about to proceed by September 12. Current solid members Phillip James Brannon as Mary’s Husband, Bianca Leigh as Mary’s Chaperone, and Barrett Foa as Mary’s Teacher are scheduled to stay with the manufacturing by December 6, the tip of Yang’s engagement. Ryo Kamibayashi, at the moment showing as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant, will take his ultimate bow within the play September 13, with authentic solid member Tony Macht set to re-join the corporate within the position alongside Yang starting September 15.
Understudies Hannah Solow, Martin Landry, Julian Manjerico, and Jackie Sanders spherical out the corporate.
Tickets are on sale by July 10, 2027. Casting for after Yang’s ultimate bow is to be introduced.
Escola’s comedy facilities on 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, “through the lens of an idiot”), Mary Todd turns into a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.
The piece premiered at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2024 in a run that was prolonged thrice. It then transferred to Broadway later that 12 months, the place it has been breaking box-office data on the Lyceum Theatre; it grew to become the primary present within the theatre’s 121-year historical past to gross greater than $1 million 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.
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Oh, Mary‘s inventive workforce 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. John C. Moore and Lilian McGrail are manufacturing stage supervisor and assistant stage supervisor, respectively.
