Broadway show about his wife is enjoying its stay on Broadway quite a bit.Cole Escola’s crackling historical comedy “Oh, Mary” was just extended for another two months after breaking box office records and netting over $1 million in sales in its first week at New York City’s Lyceum Theater.The show will now close on Nov.
10; before the announcement, “Oh, Mary” was scheduled to end its run on Sept. 15.For the uninitiated, the gleefully inaccurate corker reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln (Escola, in drag) “as a raging alcoholic and bored, acid-tongued housewife whose dreams of becoming a cabaret star and performing her ‘madcap medlies’ are thwarted by her absentee husband, Abe (Conrad Ricamora),” according to the New York Post’s theater critic Johnny Oleksinski.In Oleksinksi’s rave review of the show, he declared that Escola’s made “the funniest show on Broadway” adding “the Great White Way has not witnessed a comedy this funny, or a comedic star turn this dazzling, in at least a decade.”If this show — which Oleksinski contends is an “unexpectedly juicy yarn” — sounds like the can’t miss live event of the summer to you, tickets are available for all upcoming performances at the 895-seat Lyceum.At the time of publication, our team found some tickets going for as low as $77 before fees on Vivid Seats.Other shows have seats starting anywhere from $78 to $183 before fees.For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about “Oh, Mary” on Broadway below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.From now up until Nov.
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