Maya Rudolph will extend her limited engagement in the title role of Broadway‘s Oh, Mary! by two weeks after breaking two box office records in her first week with the production.
Originally set to play through June 20, Rudolph will now remain in Cole Escola’s hit comedy for two additional weeks, through July 5, alongside castmates Phillip James Brannon, Cheyenne Jackson, Bianca Leigh, and Tony Macht.
The former SNL and Bridesmaids star made her Broadway debut as the comedy’s Mary Todd Lincoln on April 28. Her first week at the Lyceum Theatre, where the play has enjoyed a very successful run since opening on July 11, 2024, saw weekly grosses jump to $1,540,980, a record for both the production and the Lyceum. The single-performance take for Friday, May 1, was $199,935, another house record.
The role of Mary was originated by the play’s creator Cole Escola and has been played by a number of performers since, including Betty Gilpin, Tituss Burgess, Jinkx Monsoon, Hannah Solow, Jane Krakowski and, most recently, John Cameron Mitchell.
Directed by Sam Pinkleton (The Rocky Horror Show), Oh, Mary! was the first show in the theater’s 121-year history to gross more than $1,000,000 in a single week, and it has since broken its own box office record 13 times, becoming the first show of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its investment.
Today’s announcement about Rudolph’s extension was made by producers Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia.
