“Oh, Mary!” Broadway may not be most likely in this season, a wild over-the-top, not all historically accurately accurately accurately written by First Lady Mary Tod Lincoln, written and starred by Kol Ecola.
Abraham Lincoln: “For the sake of God, Mary! How will it see the first woman of the United States about a platform in the ruins of the war?”
Mary Tod Lincoln: “How would it feel? Sensation !!”
This is a comprehensive comedy about the secret passion for Mary’s Cabrey Star. Meanwhile, her husband, Abe, are just wrapping the civil war, and are more worried about keeping the country together.
Abraham Lincoln: “No! It’s unfair! We are in war!”
Mary Tod Lincoln: “With whom?”
Abraham Lincoln: “The South!”
Mary Tod Lincoln: “What?”
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It is not a revival, there are no film stars in it (okay, speak for yourself, Mo! “, And it’s a smash, breaking the box office record.
What does he say? “Inflation is more,” Escola said laughing.
Escola came up with the idea in 2009: “I sent myself an email that said,” What if Abraham Lincoln’s murder was not so bad for Mary Tod? ” You know, as Mary is starting, ‘Now I am single.’ You know?”
But this dream of fever remained just a dream for years. “I loved this idea very much, I didn’t want it to get on paper and to disappoint me – to disappoint me MeNot only the audience, but, like, me, “Escola said.” There are some ideas like you, ‘Oh, I do not want to plant this seed, because what if it is an ugly flower? ,
Escola eventually wrote the play. “Oh, Mary!” Opened for the rapturus review in downtown, quickly moved to the Broadway to the Broadway, and earned only five Tony nominations this week, including two for 38 -year -old Escola (for the best play and the best actor).
This is a long route from the rural Oregon, where Escola was picked up. The family had very little money, a Vietnam’s veteran father, Escola, who was suffering from mental illness. “When I was probably five years old, my father followed us with a gun.
The family went with Escola’s grandmother. “Then, she and I shared a bedroom, and I remember when she taught me to read. And she was in the early stages of Alzheimer, so she would repeat the stories a lot. But I loved her. I loved her stories. I now realized when she told these stories, as if she was in the midst of her memory.”
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I asked, “And you had no objection that she was repeating stories?”
“No, no,” Escola replied. “Because she remembers some details in telling a new one or, like, leaves some out, and then I got, like, you know, ‘and you were wearing a dress, right, gramma?” ,
“And is it right that when you were five years old, he gave you a barbie?”
“Yes. He gave me his first barbie. Just took me to a completely marked price when I was doing something that the boys were going to do.”
His understanding proved to be a presence. Escola now uses pronouns. Asked to explain, Escola said, “I have not always felt a man, not a woman. And you know, it’s fun, because recently I saw my photos on Instagram. Like comments, ‘what is that? What is that, like it is not a man.’ “Okay, it is definitely not a woman in the form of hell, either.” And I was so, ‘Absolutely.’ Like you to do Take it. “
Similarly, Escola’s comic identity has never been in doubt.
I asked, “Comedyly, have you always done your work?”
“Yes.”
“So, there was never a time where you thought, ‘I need to like more it People to answer me ‘? ,
“No,” Escola said. “It would be like trying to speak German when I really do not know any German. I have to laugh for it so that someone else can get a chance to make it laugh.”
Escola began performing at a community theater in Oregon, and eventually scored the money together to make it in New York (“It New York or Bust!”), To attend college first and live in 92nd Street Y. It was only a short term of nine months. “I had to leave because they did not let me take any other loan. I think I was so poor that he was like,” You will never be able to return it. “
“I felt that something wrong with me is that I cannot take the risk of going to school. It is the thing that makes me the most angry about being poor, just the congenital meaning that it is like a moral failure or a congenital thing that is broken into you.”
Escola eventually returned it to live in New York, receiving a fan base with online video, such as “mother commercial” (2015):
… and then on TV, “Amy Sedaris with Ghar Par”, deranged in shows, is still playing a series of delightful characters.
And then came with Mary.
I said, “You don’t come to watch and go, ‘Oh, there were layers and layers of development people who were saying, No, you have made it tweet to this audience and did so for that audience.,
“No,” Escola said. “Something special about the fact that I wrote this for me and my friends, and for my audience that I have done in the city’s places and accessories. And the fact that it is successful, I don’t know, it makes it so sweet. It actually does.”
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Story created by Amol Mhatre. Editor: Steven Tyler.
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