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Cole Escola’s ‘Oh, Mary!’ Recoups $4.5 Million Broadway Investment
Cole Escola's unconventional smash "Oh, Mary!" has recouped its entire production costs on Broadway.
As the official logline teases, “Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and suppressed desires abound in this one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot.” As that not-entirely-interested-in-facts description suggests, the play is silly, purposefully stupid and tough for even Escola to categorize: “If I were to call it a farce or a screwball comedy, I feel like actual scholars of comedy would be like, ‘There’s not a single door slam, you idiot!’ I would call it … a dirty limerick,” they joked to Variety earlier this fall. It continues to bring in starry crowds with recent attendees including the likes of Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Andrew Garfield, Anna Wintour, Jennifer Aniston, Madonna, Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg.
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