Michelle Obama left “Oh, Mary!” Broadway – The Flotus farce, awarded to Tony, playwright and star Escola – wondering one thing: “Who thought of that?”
Swinging by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers “Las Culturistas” Podcast Wednesday, the former first lady shared that she had indeed seen the alternative History of Escola who envisages Abraham’s wife Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, as a star of the Wannabe Cabaret. Obama shared went blind but came out while loving.
“We imagine that everyone turns to you to see how you react to this specific play,” sounded Yang on Obama’s theater habits.
“Often, I sneak up afterwards, so I don’t think people knew I was there because I come in dusk, I slip on the side and I sit,” she explained. “And I didn’t fully know what” Oh, Mary! ” was, right?
But then the curtain opened, the spotlights continued and an escola, dressed in obstacles to curly hair, entered the scene in drunk hysteria.
“Scene 1, I crack,” recalls Obama, but admitted that she knew how she reacted in the dark audience. “”[I was] Feel like: “Oh my God, if people see me laugh, it’s going to be on page six!” But I loved it – so happy for Tony’s victory. I mean, you know, just out of your mind – is that when you think, “Who thought of that?” What happens inside this head that thought of telling the story in this very interesting but powerful way? Just, I loved it. I loved it.
Rogers, a peer and friend of Escola, then shared “Oh, Mary!” Can read as a political farce, but it is also very personal for its creator.
“And also when you get to know Cole, and you really realize that a large part of their real personal experience is in this show even if you do not know – like the things with which they fought and what they wanted and the kind of resistance they encountered is all in there.”
“In the bones of Mary Todd Lincoln,” joked Obama, adding later: “I had a good time.”
The production of hot Broadway is freshly beaten by a number of Tony Award’s victories, including a victory in history for Cole Escola, who became the first non -binary artist to win the best performance of an actor in a leading role in a play. The production announced Wednesday that the icon “Rupaul’s Drag Race” which has become regular by Broadway Jinkx Monsoon will resume the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in August.
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