Betty Gilpin joins OH, MARY as Mary Todd Lincoln. Extended through June 28th, 2025!- Page 8

[Voter]

Posted: 2/12/25 at 10:30pm

"I watched it last night and it was also roughly70 mins. It started at around 7:37pm and curtain call at 8:46pm. It's my first time seeing Betty Gilpin perform as Mary and she is very funny and I can see why she replaced Cole. Very happy for her. I loved her audition as the Nurse.I'm not sure if it's the dressbut Betty looked very tall (I sat in orch partial view). I thought they might change her line to say"people travelled the world over for my long legs and short medleys..." but they didn't and that's fine. For folks who have never seen Oh Mary before I think the play is fine and they'll come out of the theater thinking it's funny."

The whole point is that the medleys are long!

[chrisampm2]

Posted: 2/12/25 at 11:44pm

Jarethan, do you mean stage left?

[OharaFosseWolfe888]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 10:29am

Phillip James Brannon Is Oh, Mary!'s New Abraham Lincoln, and His Family Sees the Resemblance

Very nice article, for those that don't know who Phillip James Brannon is yet! A star!

[Wick3]

Posted: 2/13/25 at 2:52pm

Voter said: ""I watched it last night and it was also roughly70 mins. It started at around 7:37pm and curtain call at 8:46pm. It's my first time seeing Betty Gilpin perform as Mary and she is very funny and I can see why she replaced Cole. Very happy for her. I loved her audition as the Nurse.I'm not sure if it's the dressbut Betty looked very tall (I sat in orch partial view). I thought they might change her line to say"people travelled the world over for my long legs and short medleys..." but they didn't and that's fine. For folks who have never seen Oh Mary before I think the play is fine and they'll come out of the theater thinking it's funny."

The whole point is that the medleys are long!"

Betty has long legs and given other reports, the play is now only 70 mins... which probably means she sings so fast that the medleys are now shorter ;)

 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/5/25 at 9:45pm

Tonight was my fifth time seeing this, first time with someone other than Cole. Even as someone who knows Betty’s work I was still skeptical this could work without Cole and whoo-boy I’ve never been so wrong in my life. Betty was JUST as funny as Cole. She even seems MORE manic in parts and she did something really surprising, she brought some grounded realism to parts of it - she’s such a good actress. 

This really was like seeing the show again for the first time. 

Updated On: 3/5/25 at 09:45 PM

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 7:54am

Couldn’t agree with Jordan more. I saw Betty last weekend and thought she was beyond brilliant. I described it to friends who asked as she acts like a haunted doll possessed by the spirits of every Old Hollywood actress. A demented performance. If there was any doubt that the show would work without Cole, Betty is proof positive it does - and wildly so. It only shows off the strength of the script more, that she’s so able to imbue the genuine insanity with some form of pathos.

As for why it runs faster, there are some prolonged bits Cole does that Betty did not do (the shaking of the bratty curls while Abe is trying to speak, the forgetting of her next line in the medley, as examples) that probably speeds things along. Everyone is also just generally speaking faster because it has been open several months. That, and Cole Escola has never met a throwaway line (meant as a compliment, but also the truth).

Anyway, get yourself to the Lyceum if the prices for Cole are daunting and the tickets for Tituss are scarce. Betty Gilpin is a star.

Updated On: 3/6/25 at 07:54 AM

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 12:00pm

Not doing the "forgetting" in the medley is a crime. For my money, that's the funniest joke in the whole play. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 12:02pm

And something else that I didn't expect, the audience last night looked like a matinee audience at Encores and they ate it up, almost just as hard as the (mostly) younger audience for Cole did. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 12:04pm

ChairinMain said: "Not doing the "forgetting" in the medley is a crime. For my money, that's the funniest joke in the whole play."

Should clarify: she did do it. It just doesn’t take up the time Cole luxuriates in.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 12:08pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Tonight was my fifth time seeing this, first time with someone other than Cole. Even as someone who knows Betty’s work I was still skeptical this could work without Cole and whoo-boy I’ve never been so wrong in my life. Betty was JUST as funny as Cole. She even seems MORE manic in partsand she did something really surprising, she brought some grounded realism to parts of it- she’s such a good actress.

This really was like seeing the show again for the first time."

How was Martin Landry as Mary's Husband's assistant? Heard he's been on since Sunday.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 12:17pm

He was hilarious!

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 3/9/25 at 6:39pm

Martin & Meryl in Oh, Mary WHEN!?!

[NOWaWarning]

Posted: 3/9/25 at 7:44pm

KevinKlawitter said: "

Martin & Meryl inOh, MaryWHEN!?!"

Preferably with him as Mary and her as Lincoln