From one First Woman to a different, Michelle Obama has given her seal of approval to Oh, Mary!

On the newest episode of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers' Las Culturistas podcast, the previous FLOTUS was requested what she thought of Cole Escola's Tony-winning Broadway play spoofing the lives of President Abraham Lincoln and First Woman Mary Todd Lincoln.

"I must know, Oh, Mary! — what’s Michelle Obama's expertise at Oh, Mary!?" Rogers requested, to which Yang added, "As a result of we'd think about everybody's turning to you to see the way you're responding to this."

Obama defined that she often tries to sneak into productions after the lights have dimmed, "so I don't suppose that individuals knew I used to be there." She added, "I didn't know totally what Oh, Mary! was. So I went with a good friend. It was a suggestion. They mentioned it was a play. I didn't do the analysis. So I wasn't certain what was happening."

However by the very first scene, "I’m cracking up," Obama recounted. "However feeling like, 'Oh my God, if folks see me laughing, it's going to be on Web page Six.' However I beloved it."

Written by Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, the darkly comedic manufacturing facilities on a depressing Mary Todd within the weeks main as much as her husband's assassination. The present opened on Broadway with Escola within the titular function, incomes 5 nominations on the 2025 Tonys and notching two wins, together with Greatest Main Actor for Escola.

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Obama mentioned she was "so completely satisfied" to see the manufacturing win on the Tonys. "I imply, who considered this?What's happening inside that head?" she mentioned. "That considered the retelling of historical past on this very fascinating however highly effective approach. I beloved it, beloved it."

Escola will proceed to play Mary Todd by Saturday. Tituss Burgess, who performed the function for a restricted engagement within the spring, will return to reprise the function following Escola's departure for six weeks, then be succeeded by Jinkx Monsoon in August.

In a overview, Leisure Weekly hailed the manufacturing because the "funniest play on Broadway" amid an in any other case "already-dysfunctional" political panorama.

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