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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

‘The new Hamilton’? Show with Mary Todd Lincoln as drunken first lady comes to London

Mason Alexander Park, wearing a black outfit, stands with arms outstretched during rehearsals
Mason Alexander Park: ‘I thought, “If there’s one thing I get to do in my lifetime, I would love for it to be this”.’ Photograph: Manuel Harlan

What if, in the final weeks before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the first lady could not care less about the American civil war and was instead hell-bent on becoming a cabaret star?

That is the question posed by Oh, Mary!, the smash-hit show that reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a gloriously unhinged alcoholic who despises her closeted husband.

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