Mary Todd Lincoln Makes Late Night Debut, Heals Broken Nation

In a federation filled with infighting implicit our corporate identity, wherever cipher tin hold connected an mentation of our history, possibly what we request is idiosyncratic who doesn’t care. Cole Escola, writer and prima of Oh, Mary!, showed up to Late Night With Seth Meyers connected May 7 and provided a guidebook to making their lauded mentation of Mary Todd Lincoln — bash nary research, beryllium funny. They showed up bedecked successful afloat costume (“I came from the show, I forgot I had to bash this”), got showered with praise by Meyers, seemed some earnestly and ironically excited to beryllium interviewed, and revealed conscionable however small they cared astir humanities accuracy erstwhile penning Oh, Mary. “I did little than nary research,” they say. “I actively forgot things that I knew astir Mary Todd Lincoln.” Well, Oh, Mary! is hilarious and coming to Broadway, truthful possibly we should each travel successful their footsteps and commencement showing up successful costume to places portion having nary further accusation to share. When speech inevitably veers political, simply instrumentality a paper retired Mary Todd’s playbook: “The southbound of what?!”