This week we take a look at shows nominated for 2025 Tony Awards.

NEW YORK — When Cole Escola makes an opening announcement as Blythe Danner about the theater’s “mostly functioning” urinals, you know “Oh, Mary!” isn’t going to be another romp through the Civil War.

Instead, it’s an extremely clever revision of an insider’s story, showing what Mary Todd Lincoln (Escola) was thinking when her husband was trying to stop the war between the North and the South.

In short, she wants a career as a cabaret artist, but he won’t hear of it — “We’re in a war,” he insists.

Abe (Conrad Ricamora) figures she could take acting lessons and find a place on the legitimate stage. Her teacher: John Wilkes Booth.

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