Cole Escola’s ‘Oh, Mary!’ Opens on Broadway With a Gay Leather Bar After-Party, a Closeted Abe Lincoln and Plenty of ‘Stupid Gems’

After the curtain call of “Oh, Mary!,” star and playwright Cole Escola said that creating the absurd, queer play was a lot like trying to convince your doctor that you have a tumor.

“When you have an idea, it’s really embarrassing to care about something that doesn’t exist yet. It’s really vulnerable. It’s like trying to convince your doctor that you have a tumor based on nothing except you just feel like you probably have one,” Escola said on stage after the Broadway debut of “Oh, Mary!” Thursday night. “You go to your doctor and the doctor’s like, ‘What are the symptoms?’ and you’re like, ‘I don’t have any.

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