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mhemusical: Little forest robots 💜 🥰

Also, Can we hear it for the DESIGN 😍

#maybehappyending #darrencriss #helenjshen #broadway #musicaltheatre #maybehappyending🤖

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Darren Criss and Helen J Shen | Maybe Happy Ending | tell me about fireflies, please ✨💜 | March 29, 2025 | 🎥 via MHE

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i need to see more love for this musical

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can maybe happy ending have a fandom please and thank you

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911FanaticGirl: Soooo many Oliver’s Finally drop this one

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maybehappyendingbway: Darren Criss you have our hearts 🥹🥹🥹

#maybehappyending #darrencriss #broadway #musicaltheatre #castalbum #OBCR @ Darren Criss

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‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Makes Top 5 Debut on Billboard’s Cast Albums Chart

The original Broadway cast recording of Maybe Happy Ending – led by Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winner Darren Criss and Helen J Shen – scores the year’s highest debut on Billboard’s Cast Albums chart, as the set enters at No. 5 on the list dated March 29.

Maybe Happy Ending was released on March 14 via streaming services and to purchase as a digital download album, while its CD release is slated for May 16 and a vinyl release is due on June 13. Will Aronson and Hue Park wrote the show’s book, music and lyrics, while the album was produced by Deborah Abramson, Ian Kagey and Aronson. Maybe Happy Ending began its life on stage in Seoul, South Korea in 2016 and was later produced in Japan and China as well. It opened on Broadway at New York’s Belasco Theatre on Nov. 12, 2024, starring Criss and Shen as obsolete Helperbot robots who meet cute and fall in love. The show has drawn rave reviews, with The New York Times calling it “supersmart” and “astonishing,” Entertainment Weekly said the musical “dazzles with its love story and astounds with its visual accomplishments,” and USA Today said it was “wildly inventive and profoundly moving.” Shen makes their Broadway debut in Maybe Happy Ending, while this is the fourth Broadway show for Criss – but his first originating a role in a musical production. He previously appeared on Broadway in the revival of the play American Buffalo (in 2022) and as a replacement in the revivals of the musicals Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2015) and How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (2012). Billboard’s Cast Albums chart ranks the most popular cast recordings of the week in the United States, based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. The March 29 chart reflects the tracking week ending March 20. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

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Tell me about fireflies, please. Fireflies are a special type of insect that used to be almost everywhere, but now can only be found in one forest on Jeju Island. There's a complex chemical reaction in their abdomen that is not found in other insects. Because of this chemical process, they can produce light by themselves without ever being plugged in. Little forest robots. They only live for two months. But what a beautiful two months.

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING - Little forest robots 💜 🥰 Also, Can we hear it for the DESIGN 😍 | March 29, 2025 | 🎥 MHE

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jodi.benson: December in NYC❤️so very thankful for an incredible trip to visit our amazing daughter, see 5 wonderful shows, and spend quality time with family & friends. So grateful for all of you❤️love to all!

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Inside ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ the revolutionary robot musical that has Broadway audiences aglow

A line in “Maybe Happy Ending” describes the lives of fireflies, the once-ubiquitous insects that magically produce their own light. “They only live for two months. But what a beautiful two months.” The same was nearly said of the stage show itself. Of all the new musicals debuting on Broadway this season, “Maybe Happy Ending” is the sole entry not based on true events, archival music or any other existing material, which made it a box office underdog when it opened last November. Its unabashed originality has since become its biggest boon. Set in Seoul circa 2064, the one-act adventure centers on two retired Helperbots who set aside their solitude and head to Jeju Island; Oliver, optimistic by design, hopes to reunite with his former owner, and Claire, cynical from experience, wants to witness the fireflies’ glow before her own obsoletion. Along the way, these robots fall in love, their narrative needle dropped by jazz standards of a bygone era. This intimate spectacle — already a hit title in Asia for years, before the isolation of the pandemic and the existential threat of AI — is a singular exploration of human connection and the beauty of being alive, even though the only living thing in their apartments is a potted plant named HwaBoon. The Times spoke separately with members of the musical’s cast and creative team about developing the standout show in Asia, witnessing its remarkable rise to Broadway acclaim and pulling off an ending that fascinates audiences to the tune of repeat viewing.

[HQ] Marcus Choi, Helen J Shen, Dez Duron and Darren Criss of the Broadway musical “Maybe Happy Ending,” photographed at the Belasco Theater in New York. (Photo by Justin Jun Lee / For The Times)

Darren Criss (actor, Oliver): Let’s call a spade a spade here — I’m the white-passing Asian of our group, but it is my identity. The AAPI community in the arts is a smaller, if not marginalized, group, so to be up there, I feel that excitement and encouragement from the community at large. It’s important, and I hope this show can continue to have that legacy and be an inspiring call to action in other artistic spheres.

Criss: After a few previews, we noticed that audiences had conflicting ideas about the ending and would ask us for answers. We told Michael, and he said defiantly, “No, that’s not the play we’re doing. This is what happens, make sure you tell that story.” Shy of any eye flutters, we’re doing that same directive every night.

Criss: Even though we’re trying to be definitive, people want to see things and need the ending to be one way or the other, maybe because of taste or life experiences. It just speaks to the investment people put into these characters and the story.

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Darren Criss | Los Angeles Times | Maybe Happy Ending | March 27, 2025 | 📸 by Justin Jun Lee

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DARREN CRISS - Darren Criss you have our hearts 🥹🥹🥹 | Maybe Happy Ending OBCR | March 28, 2025 | 🎥 MHE

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chriscolfer: Saw my ex in his new show! @ darrencriss and @ helenjshen are FANTASTIC in @ maybehappyending! Don’t miss it!

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Darren Criss x Broadway (& Off Broadway) 

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2012) ⇢ Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2015) ⇢ American Buffalo (2020) ⇢ Little Shop of Horrors (2024) ⇢ Maybe Happy Ending (2024) 

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DARREN CRISS - World within my studio 💜🤖🪴Which song can't you wait for? | Maybe Happy Ending OBCR | February 03, 2025 | 📷 Tia Byington

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DARREN CRISS AS OLIVER - Maybe Happy Ending | November 2024 - | 📷 Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman