Cole Escola dressed as Bernadette Peters on the Tonys Red Carpet, right before they became 1st openly non-binary artist ever to win ‘Leading Actor In A Play’ Tony Award for Oh, Mary! beating out fellow nominee George Clooney. They made sure to thank their mom, their cast, their friends, AND their Grindr hookup!
The play portrays Mary Todd Lincoln as an unhappy alcoholic who just wants to be a cabaret star—if only her husband Abe would get out of her way. Escola was (unless you knew!) an unknown before the show premiered last year Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. But the show’s success Off-Broadway and subsequent transfer, which has been selling out and extending since last July, has established them as a bona-fide star.
Check out Cole’s full speech after the jump!
@cbs #ColeEscola accepting the Tony Award is a whole moment 😍 #TonyAwards #OhMary ♬ original sound – CBS
Such bull $hit!!! And that’s why the rating for the awards show is tanking! America is sick of this being shoved up our A$$e$. “They” can just go away!
Go off and self-loathe somewhere else. No amount of these unhinged rants will ever make your homophobic daddy unashamed of you. No conservative who sees your meltdowns is gonna start respecting you. Your only use for them is as a rhetorical prop to justify taking our rights away. You are as much an enemy as they are. Step off, bigot.
The awards show maybe tanking but Broadway is certainly not. In fact, it is seeing its highest profit ever. Oh Mary is also sold out every night.
They are FABULOUS! Congratulations on a great performance and win.