'Maybe Happy Ending' is a unique and captivating new musical starring Helen J. Shen and Darren Criss about two retired robots.
: the musical’s, and her own. And both she and the musical are just getting started on theater’s main stage.
“Maybe Happy Ending,” written by Will Aronson and Hue Park, was originally staged in Korea in 2016, followed shortly by an English-language workshop and Atlanta production in 2020. Shen was working on two off-“ has had lives before, so to have autonomy to think about how my take on the character would be different from what’s been done before,” says Shen. “There’s always been room for us to build and connect and find our natural chemistry, as opposed to shoehorn what we think it should be.
The actress, who grew up in New Jersey, fell in love with musical theater during her teenage years, after spending her childhood studying piano at a high level. She went on to study theater at the University of Michigan — Criss is also an alum — and graduated in 2022. “It was a moment where she decided to purchase a dress that made her feel beautiful,” says Shen of the golden-hued dress. “To see this dress in her closet that she saved, and then to put it on and it fits me like a glove, is really emotional for me. It’s a physical embodiment of feeling beautiful and feeling confident. It goes beyond the surface of ‘I want to have a fit on opening night’ or ‘I want to look good.’ It’s marking that a moment is important.
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