Tituss Burgess Set For Three-Week Run As Mary Todd Lincoln In Broadway’s ‘Oh, Mary!’

Six-time Emmy Award-nominated actor Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Schmigadoonl) will take over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola’s hit Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! for a limited three-week engagement in March.

“Oh, Mary! blew me away when I saw it on Broadway,” Burgess said in a statement. “Cole Escola is a genius. The show is fresh and impossibly funny. I understand the role of Mary Todd Lincoln maybe a little too well. I’m over the moon with joy that I get to join the company at The Lyceum Theatre.”

Burgess will begin his run on Tuesday, March 18, and play through Sunday, April 6. He will be the third actor to play the role, following Escola, who created it, and Betty Gilpin, currently in the show.

Burgess returns to the Broadway stage following his work in musicals Moulin Rouge!, Guys and Dolls, The Little Mermaid, and many more.

The play, written by Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, 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 $1,000,000 in a single week. Oh, Mary! has since broken its own box office record eleven times, and in November producers announced that the show had recouped its investment, thought to be about $4,525,000.

Oh, Mary! is produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia.