Beautiful songs, stunning design, and brilliant performances by Darren Criss and Helen J Shen: “Maybe Happy Ending” makes the love story of two robots Broadway’s hottest ticket.
Meet Claire and Oliver , two isolated and retired robots who have come not to save us, but to teach—or perhaps to remind—us what it is to love and be human., directed by Michael Arden with a nuanced delicacy and lightness of touch, is the most original and innovative show on New York’s main theatrical drag this autumn—and it dazzles with subtlety rather than bombast.
The show begins with Claire requiring a battery recharge, so knocks on the door of neighboring retired robot Oliver. He takes so long opening the door when he does so it is to her frozen, temporarily without-power figure. A nervy, very particular robot himself , Oliver doesn’t know what to do. Criss plays him with the coiffed handsomeness of a K-pop star and the stiff gait and easily-rattled manner of C-3PO .
This is the tug of the whole show—machines feeling things, even if they are not supposed to, and emotions fizzing unexpectedly out of tightly coiled wires. Criss erupts with puppyish excitement and panicked worry, while Shen gives Claire a defiant edge that co-exists with a resigned fatalism.
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