#mary-todd-lincoln

#mary-todd-lincoln

By now, you will be used to the feminist practice of finding a historical woman and rescuing her from the clutches of evil biographers who have done her dirty. What if Marie Antoinette or Typhoid Mary were a more rounded figure-more constrained by the expectations of her time, perhaps, or a victim of her circumstances and upbringing? That is not the approach that the playwright Cole Escola has taken in Oh, Mary!, which is currently playing on Broadway and has just opened in London.

Mitchell feels like a good choice for the part. His Broadway bonafides go back decades. Most notably, Mitchell wrote and originated the lead role in Hedwig And The Angry Inch , appearing in both the original off-Broadway production and the film adaptation . In the years since, he's taken roles on TV as Joe Exotic in Joe vs. Carol and in shows like City On Fire , , and .

Paytas will be appearing in Beetlejuicefrom November 4 to November 23. Paytas is playing Maxine Dean, one of the party guests in the big, spooky dinner party. Maxine is the wife of Maxie Dean, Charles Deetz's boss who is trying to turn the neighborhood into a gated community. The actor playing Maxine usually also plays Juno, Beetlejuice's mother. While Paytas is embodying Maxine, Sharone Sayegh will continue to play Juno in Act II.

Set in a post-civil-war United States, the 80-minute, one-act production reimagines the final days of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of US president Abraham Lincoln, into a twisted absurdist story of "history, heartbreak, and satire." In the weeks leading up to Abraham's assassination, a miserable, suffocated Mary reminsces over her forgotten hopes and dreams, which have melted into a puddle of unrequited yearning and alcoholism.