Oh, Mary! will get a live stage film with its writer and original Tony-winning star, Cole Escola, in the title role. The July 28 performance will be filmed at London’s Trafalgar Theatre during Escola’s previously announced limited run. Sam Pinkleton, the play’s Tony-winning director, will also direct the film. Release details are to be announced.
And Escola won’t be the only original cast member included. They’ll be joined by Bianca Leigh as Mary’s Chaperone and Tony Macht as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant, along with Michael Urie as Mary’s Teacher and Olivier-nominated original London star Giles Terera as Mary’s Husband. The filming cast will take over the West End run alongside Escola July 20, continuing through August 1.
For the remainder of Escola’s limited run, which continues through August 15, Terera will continue as Mary’s Husband, with Dino Fetscher as Mary’s Teacher, Kate O’Donnell as Mary’s Chaperone, and Oliver Stockley as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant all returning. During Jinkx Monsoon’s previously announced stint (August 17-September 26), Scott Karim will succeed Terera as Mary’s Husband. U.K. casting is by Stuart Burt, and U.S. casting is by Henry Russell Bergstein.
Tickets for the July 28 performance go on sale at 2 PM BST at OhMaryPlay.co.uk.
The West End bow of Escola’s hit comedy currently features Mason Alexander Park in the title role, through July 18, along with Karim, O’Donnell, Stockley, and Fetscher.
The Broadway comedy crossed the pond last year, opening in the West End December 18, 2025, with Sam Pinkleton reprising his Tony-winning Broadway direction. See what critics had to say here.
Oh, Mary! centers on Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola’s demented take (or as press notes put it, “through the lens of an idiot”), Mary Todd becomes a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.
The piece premiered at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2024 in a run that was extended three times. It then opened on Broadway last summer, where it’s been breaking box-office records at the Lyceum Theatre; it became the first show in the theatre’s 121-year history to gross more than $1 million in a single week. The show earned two 2025 Tony Awards: Lead Actor in a Play for Escola, the play’s original Mary; and Director of a Play for Pinkleton. Oh, Mary! continues its run on Broadway.
READ: Director Sam Pinkleton on the Art of Recasting Oh, Mary!
Pinkleton has reassembled his creative team for the West End transfer, including scenic designer dots, costume designer Holly Pierson, lighting designer Cha See, composer and co-sound designer Daniel Kluger, co-sound designer Drew Levy, wig designer Leah J. Loukas, and music arranger David Dabbon.
U.K. casting is by Stuart Burt CDG.
The transfer is produced by Kevin McCollum and Lucas McMahon, and Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia. Executive producers are Wessex Grove.
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