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Meg Stalter erstwhile again donned nan bratty, coiled wig of Mary Todd Lincoln past night, returning to her Broadway debut capacity arsenic nan lead successful Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! aft a weeklong absence owed to bronchitis.
Just anterior to nan Friday evening performance, Stalter posted an Instagram Story photograph of herself, apparently successful her dressing room astatine Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, pinch nan note, “Planning connected being backmost successful nan show coming arsenic agelong arsenic my sound doesn’t springiness out.”
All went arsenic planned. Subsequent after-show additions to her Instagram Story included re-posts of assemblage personnel IGs pinch photos and little video clips of nan Hacks character taking her bows astatine curtain to a opinionated ovation. “Bronchitis has thing connected this bitch!,” captioned 1 fan, while different noted, that Stalter “was virtually calved to play Mary. A cleanable performance! Brava!”
Stalter’s caller absence from nan show – which she joined July 6 conscionable a week earlier falling sick – prompted bizarre net speculation that nan comedian had really skipped nan show to sojourn New York’s Comedy Cellar drama club, a rumor apparently started connected Reddit erstwhile 1 Redditer, apparently, saw personification astatine nan nine who resembled Stalter.
“There’s a full thread connected Reddit I conjecture astir really group deliberation I was astatine nan drama cellar and I’d conscionable for illustration to spell connected grounds saying I was not astatine nan drama cellar,” Stalter said successful an Instagram post. “I’m very sick and person nary sound but doing everything I tin to beryllium backmost successful nan shows this weekend. emotion you everlastingly extremity saying I was astatine nan drama cellar please.”
Stalter revisited nan rumor – if, it seems, silently – erstwhile she greeted fans astatine nan Lyceum’s shape doorway aft nan show Friday night, signing Playbills and sporting a handwritten motion hanging from her neck.
“The Princess is connected vocal rest!!,” nan motion read. “But she was NEVER astatine nan Comedy Cellar!”
Stalter’s tally successful nan show ends September 12.
