Jinkx Monsoon Will Take Over Broadway’s Oh, Mary!
Jinkx Monsoon Will Take Over Broadway’s Oh, Mary!
Presently starring in Roundabout’s Pirates!, the two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner will succeed Tituss Burgess in August.

Jinkx Monsoon
Valerie Terranova
Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon will be part of Broadway’s Oh, Mary! later this summer time, following her present gig in Roundabout Theatre Firm’s Pirates! The Penzance Musical. The previous Little Store of Horrors and Broadway Chicago star revealed the information on Right this moment June 18.
Monsoon’s restricted engagement will run August 4-September 27, succeeding Tituss Burgess. 2025 Tony-winning star and author Cole Escola is at present starring by way of June 21, with Burgess set to start a six-week encore engagement June 23. The multi-extended run is at present scheduled to proceed by way of January 4, 2026 on the Lyceum Theatre.
Escola, Tony-nominated as a playwright with the work’s Finest Play nomination and a Tony winner for his or her starring function as Mary Todd Lincoln, is at present sharing the stage with fellow authentic solid members Conrad Ricamora as Mary’s Husband, James Scully as Mary’s Trainer, Bianca Leigh as Mary’s Chaperone, and Tony Macht as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant.
Opening evening was July 11, 2024, following a multi-extended and sold-out Off-Broadway run on the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Learn the critiques for the Broadway bow right here.
READ: Tony Nominated Director Sam Pinkleton on the Artwork of Recasting Oh, Mary!
Oh, Mary! facilities on well-known First Woman Mary Todd Lincoln within the weeks main as much as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola’s demented take (or as press notes put it, “by way of the lens of an fool”), Mary Todd turns into a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.
The piece premiered at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2024 in a run that was prolonged 3 times. The manufacturing earned two 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards, together with Excellent New American Play and Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway play, each for Escola. The present additionally received the 2024 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Finest New Play.
READ: Camp and the Artwork of Being Cole Escola
Rounding out the corporate are understudies Hannah Solow, Martin Landry, and Julian Manjerico.
2025 Tony winner Sam Pinkleton directs the Broadway run after staging the Off-Broadway premiere. His artistic crew consists of 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. Casting is by Henry Russell Bergstein. Bryan Bauer and Ryan Patrick Kane are manufacturing stage supervisor and assistant stage supervisor, respectively.
Go to OhMaryPlay.com.