Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie to Join ‘Oh, Mary!’ on Broadway

Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie and Jenn Harris will join the Broadway company of “Oh, Mary” as Mary’s Husband (if you know, you know), Mary’s Teacher and Mary’s Chaperone, respectively.

They’ll star alongside “Drag Race” star Jinkx Monsoon, who is playing Mary Todd Lincoln starting Aug. 4. That’s when Nanjiani, Urie and Harris will also begin performances, which will run through Sept. 28. This production marks the Broadway debuts of Nanjiani (“The Big Sick,” “Eternals”) and Harris (“American Fiction”). Urie, a recent Emmy nominee for “Shrinking,” was recently on Broadway in “Spamalot” and “Once Upon a Mattress.”

They’ll take over after Tituss Burgess (as Mary), Conrad Ricamora (Mary’s Husband), James Scully (Mary’s Teacher) and Bianca Leigh (Mary’s Chaperone) play their final performances on Aug. 2. Tony Macht (Mary’s Husband’s Assistant/Kyle) will remain with the company through Sept. 28.

“Oh, Mary” is written by Tony Award winner Cole Escola and directed by Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton. The play follows a miserable Mary Todd Lincoln, an alcoholic aspiring cabaret singer, in the weeks leading up to the 16th president’s assassination. As the official logline reads, “Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and suppressed desires abound in this one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot.”

After a successful Off Broadway run, the play opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024 at the Lyceum Theatre, where it became the first show in the theater’s 121-year history to gross more than $1 million in a single week. “Oh, Mary!” has since broken its own box office record 12 times and has seen other actors like Betty Gilpin take over as Mary.