9/1/2026
Broadway Las Vegas
Alaska as Mary Lincoln
When Tony Award®-winning hit comedy play Oh, Mary! hits Las Vegas for the first time this October, it will do so equipped with a can’t-miss cast led by RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winner Alaska and Tony Award® winner J. Harrison Ghee at the top of the bill.
Alaska will star as “Mary Todd Lincoln,” and Ghee will star opposite her as “Mary’s Husband” when Oh, Mary! comes to The Smith Center for a limited engagement from October 6-11.
Tickets starting at $58 – fees included – are on sale now at TheSmithCenter.com.
“I’ve often been asked what my dream role would be,” Alaska said. “As an 8-foot-tall drag queen from outer space, I never really had an answer. Mama Rose? I’m too tall. Evita? I’m too short. Willy Loman? Wait … that might actually be amazing. But the point is, I never had a dream role. Until I saw Oh, Mary! So, it is an actual dream come true that I, Alaska, get to play Mary F*cking Todd in the greatest play of the generation. This is an honor. This is unbelievable. I am infinitely grateful to the inspired genius known as Cole Escola for creating the best role in the best show ever to exist.”
Added Ghee: “I have seen Oh, Mary! three times and relished the beauty of this show – how different people shine so brightly in these roles, and yet you see the influence of Cole all over the production. The opportunity to get a crack at Mary’s Husband is beyond a dream come true. We all possess so much within us. If we surrender to circumstances, we will find the possibility for expansion beyond belief. I’m so excited to play opposite Alaska; there are bound to be some brilliant moments, and we are going to set the road on fire with this electrifyingly hilarious play.”
Joining Alaska and Ghee in the powerhouse Oh, Mary! cast for Las Vegas will be Wesley Taylor as “Mary’s Teacher,” Pooya Mohseni as “Mary’s Chaperone” and Michael Lepore as “Mary’s Husband’s Assistant.”
Written by Tony Award® winner Cole Escola and directed by Tony Award® winner Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway in July 2024 and continues to play at London’s Lyceum Theatre, where it became the first show in the venue’s 121-year history to gross more than $1 million in a single week.
Oh, Mary! has since broken its own box office record 13 times and became the first show of the 2024-2025 Broadway season to recoup its investment. Oh, Mary! opened to rave reviews in London’s West End in December 2025, and the production recently won the Noël Coward Award for Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play at the 2026 Olivier Awards.
Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy play about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. 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 (playwright Cole Escola).
The full creative team includes dots (Scenic Designer), Holly Pierson (Costume Designer), Cha See (Lighting Designer), Daniel Kluger (Sound Design and Original Music), Drew Levy (Sound Designer), Leah J. Loukas (Wig Designer), Addison Heeren (Props Supervision) and David Dabbon (Musical Arrangements). Casting by Henry Russell Bergstein, CSA.
Oh, Mary! is produced by Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia with Bob Boyett, The Council, Jean Doumanian Productions, Nicole Eisenberg, Jay Marcus & George Strus, Irony Point, Richard Batchelder/Bradley Reynolds, Tyler Mount/Tommy Doyle, Nelson & Tao, Palomares Miller & Rosenberg and ShowTown Productions.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT OH, MARY!
“You’ll be losing your mind with joy.”
–The New York Times, Critic’s Pick
“The funniest show on Broadway.”
–New York Post
“★★★★★ The funniest play in years. Oh, Mary! is dizzyingly, breathtakingly funny, the kind of funny that ambushes your body into uncontained laughter.”
–Time Out New York
“A singular work of virtuoso comedy that is as inventive and shrewd as it is absolutely stupid.”
–The Daily Beast
“There’s funny, there’s very funny and then there’s Oh, Mary!”
–Deadline
“80 minutes of almost uninterrupted laughter. A work of genius.”
–The Hollywood Reporter
“Oh, Mary!’s sharp writing, breakneck pace and campy performances keep the theater in hysterics until the curtain falls.”
–Queerty