It’s hard to pin down the moment in “Oh, Mary!,” a comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, that will send Lincoln scholars and purists into apoplexy.
It could be when the first lady disastrously auditions for a role in “Our American Cousin,” the play at which John Wilkes Booth would later shoot her husband on April 14, 1865.
Or when the deeply closeted Lincoln is orally pleasured at his desk.
“I’ve seen people at the box office who seem to think this is really a play about Abraham Lincoln, and I feel a little bad, but it’s also funny,” Cole Escola, the show’s writer and star, said in a recent phone interview.
(The show opens on Thursday and continues through March 24 at Off Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theater.)
Persons:
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Organizations:
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