Who gets to be Mary Todd Lincoln next? There's a list

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Joel Rose, Michael Levitt, Sarah Robbins

Published August 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM EDT

Oh, Mary! has discovered an unusual way to keep a Broadway hit fresh: keep replacing Mary Todd Lincoln with someone completely different.

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Joel Rose

Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.

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