JOHN-ANDREW MORRISON TO JOIN JANE KRAKOWSKI IN ‘OH, MARY!’ OCT. 14, 2025

NEW YORK — Producers Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia announced today that Grammy and Emmy Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson and Tony Award nominee John-Andrew Morrison will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning hit comedy Oh, Mary!, beginning October 14, 2025. Jackson will play ‘Mary’s Teacher’ and Morrison will play ‘Mary’s Husband’, joining Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski as ‘Mary Todd Lincoln’ for a limited eight-week engagement through December 7, 2025.

Written by 2025 Tony Award-winner Cole Escola and directed by 2025 Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! 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 twelve times, became the first show of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its investment and won two 2025 Tony Awards. Originally meant to be a limited 12-week Broadway engagement, tickets for Oh, Mary! are now on sale through July 5, 2026.

The current cast of Oh, Mary! includes Jinkx Monsoon as ‘Mary Todd Lincoln,’ Jenn Harris as ‘Mary’s Chaperone,’ Martin Landry as ‘Mary’s Husband’s Assistant/Kyle,’ Kumail Nanjiani as ‘Mary’s Husband’ and Michael Urie as ‘Mary’s Teacher. Julian Manjerico, Jackie Sanders, and Sean Peter Forte complete the company. Harris will remain with the cast alongside Krakowski, Jackson, and Morrison, and Landry will play ‘Mary’s Husband’ until original company member Tony Macht returns on November 18, 2025. As previously announced, Monsoon, Nanjiani and Urie will play their final performances on September 28, 2025. From Tuesday, September 30 through Sunday, October 12, original company member Hannah Solow will play the title role, alongside returning cast members Phillip James Brannon as ‘Mary’s Husband’ and James Scully as ‘Mary’s Teacher.’

Oh, Mary! is produced on Broadway 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 & Rosenberg, and ShowTown Productions.

General tickets for Oh, Mary! begin at $58.00 (including fees) and are available now on Telecharge, in person at the Lyceum Box Office (149 West 45th Street), or by calling 212.239.6200. A digital lottery can be accessed at OhMaryPlay.com/lottery, with select tickets available at $47.00. ‍A limited number of in-person rush tickets are available at the Lyceum Theatre Box Office for $43.00, day-of, when the box office opens.

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FARCICAL FIVESOME: (top, left to right) Henry Winkler, Jenni Barber, Ari Graynor; (center) Alicia Silverstone; (bottom, left to right) Daniel Breaker & Cheyenne Jackson in ‘The Performers’. Photo: Carol Rosegg

THE PERFORMERS
By David West Read
Directed by Evan Cabnet
Through November 18, 2012
Longacre Theatre
220 West 48th Street
212-239-6200, www.thePerformersOnBroadway.com

By Scott Harrah

This spoof of the porn world, set in Las Vegas during the Adult Film Awards, never tries to be anything but a lighthearted gigglefest filled with cartoonish characters and endless sexual puns that go for cheap laughs—and get them. Granted, The Performers is nothing like the 1997 film Boogie Nights, a first-rate drama about the dark side of the adult-film industry, but this is a comedy.  With an all-star cast featuring Cheyenne Jackson, Alicia Silverstone and Henry Winkler, the show certainly entertains, but playwright David Read West’s narrative is ultimately as flimsy and paper-thin as those in the X-rated movies it satirizes.

Mr. Jackson, clad in a loincloth, flip-flops and little else, plays Mandrew, a porn star gearing up for the blue-movie biz’s version of the Oscars.  His high school friend Lee (Daniel Breaker) is visiting him in Vegas and writing a profile of the infamous horndog for the New York Post.

The storyline is more suited for a wacky TV sitcom than Broadway. Lee is in Vegas with his fiancée Sara (Alicia Silverstone), a schoolteacher who is more interested in attending a Barry Manilow concert than the porn awards.  Mandrew is desperate to rekindle his high-school friendship with Lee, while coping with the problems he’s having with his wife and fellow adult star Peeps (Ari Graynor).

Peeps is overwrought because her pneumatic porn pal Sundown LeMay (Jenni Barber) had breast-augmentation surgery without consulting her.  Meanwhile, aging dirty-movie icon Chuck Wood (Henry Winkler) is gearing up to accept an award and make his comeback in the industry.

Mr. Winkler gives the show’s best performance, primarily because his character is the most believable and multifaceted.  Mr. Jackson and Ms. Graynor do their best to bring their one-dimensional characters to life onstage:  Both play vapid but lovable people with aplomb.  Ms. Silverstone is her usual goody-two-shoes princess self, and brings all she can to a role that is mired in clichés, and most of her scenes are predictable and forgettable, as are those of Ms. Barber.

Much of the lowbrow humor comes from the farcical situations the stereotypical characters get themselves into, and the suggestive lines and prurient punch lines are hilarious at times, but watching The Performers is much like eating an entire bag of potato chips or a whole cone of cotton candy at a theme park:  Fun, indulgent and hedonistic, but lacking any true substance or satisfaction.

So much material can be mined from the real-life porn world for either comedy or tragedy, but The Performers is little more than a frolicsome diversion that sheds no new light on its subject.

Edited by Scott Harrah
Published November 17, 2012

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