Saturday Night Live alum Bowen Yang is coming to Broadway.
Yang, 35, left the series after seven seasons in December. For his Broadway debut, he will play Mary Todd Lincoln in Broadway’s Oh, Mary! starting September 15, producers announced on Tuesday.
The role will mark Yang’s first large-scale project since leaving SNL. Yang said his friendship with Oh, Mary! writer Cole Escola led to the role in a statement to Deadline. “I will spend the rest of my life thanking them for the best Broadway debut a cis gay guy with limited singing ability could ask for,” Yang also said, and called Oh, Mary! a “deranged and profound masterpiece.”
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