Overview
- Maya Rudolph, who revealed the news Monday on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, begins an eight-week run from April 28 through June 20 at the Lyceum Theatre.
- She makes her Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln, taking over from John Cameron Mitchell, who has played the role since February 3.
- Rudolph called the campy production a part she was “born to do” and said she has been training after trying on the show’s heavy hoop-skirt costume.
- She joins a company that includes Philip James Brannon, Cheyenne Jackson, Bianca Leigh, and Tony Macht under director Sam Pinkleton, a 2025 Tony Award winner.
- The hit opened July 11, 2024 and became the first show in the Lyceum’s 121-year history to gross over $1 million in a week, continuing a star-rotation model that has featured Cole Escola, Jinkx Monsoon, Tituss Burgess, and Jane Krakowski.