'Maybe Happy Ending' | Broadway Musical
The sublime start of “Maybe Happy Ending” is the closest I have ever come to experiencing a Pixar movie on Broadway .
“Maybe Happy Ending,” like Pixar at its very best, nourishes the soul in a way few Broadway shows even attempt to do.The blissful, boundlessly creative gift of a musical from South Korea, which opened Monday night at the Belasco Theatre, has no bulldozing ballads to cue the waterworks. There are no kitschy dance transitions to soothe our overworked brains.
Claire is a HelperBot 5; Oliver is a 3. Long in the bluetooth, he chides her about how the 3s are more sturdily built than the younger, glitchier models. The sad truth is that they’re both obsolete and abandoned. Of course, coming face to face with the person who consigned them to the scrap heap could bring on an existential crisis.
As his crush, Shen imparts a sit-com sensibility to her newer, more naturally behaving Claire. Quippy and forthright, she’s the realist of the pair, save for a passion for fireflies. Shen is as incandescent as that summertime staple.
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