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‘Oh, Mary!’ Review: Cole Escola’s Super-Gay Broadway Comedy Is a Smartly Stupid Riot
'Oh, Mary' is a big queer romp that imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a manic-depressive alcoholic and a force of chaos. It's smarter than it looks.
” — which is both written by and stars Escola (“Difficult People,” “Search Party”) in the title role — is a gay romp which imagines Mary as a manic-depressive alcoholic, a force of chaos whom her husband, played by Conrad Ricamora(“Fire Island”), struggles to wrangle. Escola has incorporated significant personal material in their Mary Todd, including alcoholism and addiction, depression and mental health, the struggles of being adored but obscure, and a passion for what is seen as a lesser and less intellectual art form. In this, Escola’s performance of Mary offers a fascinating, legitimately queer and trans riposte to the man-in-a-dress stock character — a trope usually riddled with transphobia, including in its recent Broadway iterations, but here transformed into something much more gender-affirming.
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