For a variety of reasons, Princess Diana is a gay icon. 

Not that she was gay (unleeeeeeess…….), but rather, she’s an icon to the gay community. 

And yet, for one very obvious reason, she has not received the community’s ultimate sign of adoration: the savage spoofery of queer comedy. Given the horror of her demise, she’s been largely off-limits to the drag-cabaret treatment showered upon choice celebrity legends. 

Enter: Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story at SoHo Playhouse, a totally unserious biography that understands self-serious reverence is not the sole way to pay loving respect to a tragic idol.  

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While Lincoln can’t quite qualify as a gay icon, his sexuality has been infamously questioned…

…which makes him a fitting choice for Oh, Mary!’s aforementioned type of signature humor.

Or, is two centuries still too soon to joke about an assassinated president? 

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There’s resonance in Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story enlisting the people in the audience to participate in this theatrical tribute to…The People’s Princess.