Maya Rudolph is proving she's got range for days — trading SNL sketches and Bridesmaids bits for the bright lights of Broadway, and audiences are absolutely eating it up. Her extension means more theatergoers get to witness her commanding stage presence as Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola's acclaimed comedy.
Here's what nobody's saying out loud: Oh, Mary! was already a proven money-printing machine before Rudolph walked through the Lyceum's doors. Thirteen box office records broken? That's not just success — that's a cultural moment. Her extension signals producers are playing the long game and want to squeeze every last dollar out of this star turn.
Maya Rudolph debuted as Mary Todd Lincoln on April 28, 2026 at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. In her first week alone, the production grossed $1,540,980 — a record for BOTH the show and the venue. A single Friday performance on May 1 brought in $199,935, another house record.
Maya Rudolph didn't just dip her toes into Broadway waters — she cannonballed in and broke the pool. Two more weeks means two more weeks of sold-out crowds and a very happy producing team.
Maya Rudolph is not leaving Broadway anytime soon, and honestly? Nobody's surprised. The former Saturday Night Live staple and Bridesmaids scene-stealer has officially extended her limited engagement in Cole Escola's hit comedy Oh, Mary! by two weeks, producers announced Thursday.
What was originally set to close on June 20 will now run through July 5 at the Lyceum Theatre — giving theater fans extra time to catch Rudolph as a fully unhinged, chain-smoking, boozy Mary Todd Lincoln. But here's where it gets really interesting: Rudolph didn't just hold her own in her Broadway debut. She absolutely detonated the box office.
Her first week with the production (April 28 through May 4) raked in $1,540,980 — a jaw-dropping sum that set not one but TWO records. It was the highest weekly gross ever for Oh, Mary! and the highest weekly gross ever recorded at the Lyceum Theatre. The theater has been around since 1905.
That's 121 years of history, and Rudolph wiped it out in seven days. The receipts get even more absurd when you zoom in on a single performance. On Friday, May 1 alone, Oh, Mary! pulled in $199,935 from one show — another house record for the Lyceum.
One night. One performance. Nearly $200K.
The math here is wild. The production, directed by Sam Pinkleton, originally opened on July 11, 2024, and has been breaking its own box office records ever since. In fact, Oh, Mary! became the first show in the Lyceum's century-plus history to gross over $1 million in a single week — and then proceeded to break that record twelve more times.
It was also the first production of the 2024-25 Broadway season to fully recoup its investment, which is industry speak for "printing money." Rudolph joins an impressive lineage of performers who have played Mary in this show, including creator Cole Escola (who originated the role), Betty Gilpin, Tituss Burgess, Jinkx Monsoon, Hannah Solow, Jane Krakowski, and most recently John Cameron Mitchell. She's sharing the stage with Phillip James Brannon, Cheyenne Jackson, Bianca Leigh, and Tony Macht.
The extension was announced by producers Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia — a team that is almost certainly toasting champagne right now. Rudolph's two-week extension through July 5 means the show will run for nearly three months with her at the helm, and if her first week is any indication, those seats are going to fly.
