‘Oh, Mary!’ review: The funniest show on Broadway

nypost.com:

preposterously enjoyable “Oh, Mary!,” which opened Thursday night at the Lyceum Theatre, does the impossible — thanks to the irrepressible comic genius of playwright and actor Cole Escola.The situation gets even stranger.

The Mary of the exuberant (or, perhaps, exasperated) title is first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of our 16th president Abraham Lincoln.On its face, the tumult of the Civil War and a traumatizing assassination do not a recipe for laughter make.

And yet the Great White Way has not witnessed a comedy this funny, or a comedic star turn this dazzling, in at least a decade.

I recommend wearing a loose-fitting shirt, should your howls pop a button.Escola, in grandiose Wednesday Addams drag (the costumes by Holly Pierson are a character, themselves), brilliantly plays Mary 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).