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‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Broadway Review: Darren Criss And Helen J Shen Delight As Lovestruck Androids Dreaming Of Electric Cheek
Deadline's review of Broadway's 'Maybe Happy Ending'
It takes a special type of theatrical talent, one loaded with heart and wit and insight, to imbue something that looks like an Apple MagSafe iPhone Charger with more romantic appeal than a decade’s worth of Valentines Day chocolates, but that’s just what the creators and performers of the delightful musical Maybe Happy Ending have achieved. Featuring marvelous performances from Darren Criss and Helen J Shen as two obsolete “helperbots” retired to rooms in a sort of well-appointed robot hospice center – think those all-the-rage tiny houses as if designed by Pee-wee Herman – Maybe Happy Ending is set outside Seoul at some point later in this century. Criss plays Oliver, an ever-optimistic helperbot in high-wasted sky-blue pants and a red tie – think Pee-wee as reimagined by the show’s great Broadway designer Clint Ramos – whom we meet as he waits patiently and happily in his little room with its old-fashioned record player, a stack of 1950s jazz albums, a little Ikea-style couch, a strange, possibly artificial plant as a best friend, and a mail chute that delivers both his jazz magazines and whatever bodily replacement part he’ll need for his own upkeep.
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