Tituss Burgess Begins Run in Hit Broadway Comedy ‘Oh, Mary!’

The gang on the Lyceum Theatre in New York Metropolis jumped to their ft in celebration on Tuesday, March 18, as Tituss Burgess wrapped his first efficiency within the absurdist comedy, Oh, Mary!

Holding a bouquet of yellow roses, the six-time Emmy Award nominee, 45, bowed to thunderous applause from the enthusiastic crowd, together with his former The Little Mermaid costars Sierra Boggess and Sherie Rene Scott.

It was a efficiency that kicked off Burgess’ restricted three week run within the Sam Pinkleton-directed Broadway hit, which follows the depressing, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln within the weeks main as much as Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

Burgess is enjoying Mary Todd, changing Betty Gilpin within the function. He’ll stay within the manufacturing by way of April 6, when playwright and unique star Cole Escola will return to the half they created on April 8.

Talking about becoming a member of the manufacturing forward of his debut, Burgess stated that he was “over the moon with pleasure” in regards to the thought being among the many firm.

“Oh, Mary! blew me away once I noticed it on Broadway. Cole Escola is a genius! The present is contemporary and impossibly humorous,” the actor stated in an announcement, including. “I perceive the function of Mary Todd Lincoln possibly a bit of too nicely.”

Opening up extra in regards to the transfer in a dialog with Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek, Burgess hinted that his Mary Todd is straightforward to entry. “As quickly as I put the wig on, she’s prepared to return out,” he stated. “She is so able to be on stage, that there is little I can do to calm her down.”

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That is Burgess’ sixth Broadway credit score. Previous to his breakout function in Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the actor treaded the boards in musicals like Good Vibrations, Jersey Boys and Guys and Dolls.

He returned to the stage after a 14 12 months abence over the 2023 vacation season, enjoying Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical,

That lengthy break, it seems, was intentional.

“I stated to [casting director] Tara Rubin that —and this was on the finish of Guys and Dolls in 2009— that I might not return to Broadway except it was on my phrases. Until I used to be above the title,” Burgess defined. “And right here we’re. … I meant that. I knew in that second that what was forward of me was some rulemaking, game-changing issues that I might do for Tituss that the world did not understand they wished me to do. And now I feel they understand that is what they wished me to do.”

Oh, Mary! additionally stars Phillip James Brannon (as Mary’s Husband), Chris Renfro (as Mary’s Instructor), Bianca Leigh (as Mary’s Chaperone) and Tony Macht (as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant,). Hannah Solow, Martin Landry and Julian Manjerico full the corporate.

Unique stars Conrad Ricamora (Mary’s Husband) and James Scully (Mary’s Instructor) will respire their roles within the manufacturing on April 8, as nicely.

Consultants predict Oh, Mary! — which has been a important and viewers smash because of its nonstop laughs and hilarious performances — can be an enormous participant at June’s 2025 Tony Awards. Its Off-Broadway run final February on the Lyceum Theatre earned Escola, 38, a slew of trophies, together with the Obie, Drama Desk, Theatre World, and Outer Critics Circle awards.

Nominations for the Tonys, theater’s highest honor and the “T” in EGOT, can be introduced on Might 1.

Tickets to Oh, Mary! at the moment are on sale.