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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. I don't think I'm being too controversial when I say this.

The Broadway play, Oh, Mary, can't miss lately.

Oh, Mary, in case you haven't heard, tells the imagined story of Mary Todd Lincoln in the days running up to the death of her husband, Abraham Lincoln.

This Mary Todd Lincoln is not the Mary Todd Lincoln you would read about in a history

book, though. She is a frustrated cabaret performer, a very intense alcoholic, a very dumb but

oddly sweet person who wears giant Looney Tunes style bloomer underwear, complete with hearts on it.

The show was written by Cole

Escola, who originally played the lead. Cole received a Tony Award for their performance in the show,

as did O'Mary's director, Sam Pinkleton. After playing the part of Mary for the better part of a year,

Cole passed along the hoop skirt and curly wig to a number of performers who have

proven themselves just as wonderful in the role. There's Betty Gilpin, who starred on

Glow, among other shows, Titus Burgess, who played Titus on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,

and if you go see the play right now, my guest, Jinks Monsoon.

Jinks is one of the top drag performers in the world today.

She's won Rupal's Drag Race twice.

She's appeared in Broadway productions of Little Shop of Horrors in Chicago.

There is, I mean, nobody better than Jinks Monsoon to play a part as unhinged and also endearing as Mary Todd Lincoln in O'Mary.

I'm so thrilled to get to talk with the brilliant and very funny Jinks Monsoon.

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