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Darren Criss on counting his lucky stars

Thirty-seven-year-old Darren Criss is a star on Broadway, and a regular at piano bars. "Keep the music going, you know?" he said. "I think the expression goes, 'Life is a cabaret!'" When he's in Los Angeles, it's Tramp Stamp Granny's, where he and his wife, Mia, are the owners. "It's kind of a beautiful little Hollywood tale," he said. "She slings the drinks, and I sling the tunes."

One rule in a piano bar? Play the hits. Criss had his first hit at the University of Michigan. He starred as Harry Potter in an unauthorized student show based on the books that became a YouTube sensation in 2009. "This was a very interesting moment in time," he said, of "A Very Potter Musical." "That really did kind of change my life. That would kind of set me on the path to where I am now."

I asked if "A Very Potter Musical" was the first musical to go viral. "I don't know; I guess we'll let the YouTube historians sort of decide the validity of that," Criss said. But Criss took a detour on his way to Broadway, by becoming a TV star. "'Glee' was happening at the time," he said. "And I went out for it, like hundreds of thousands of other people in my situation at that time. And I happened to book it." He played Blaine Anderson, and quickly became a fan favorite. "I owe my tenure on that show to the sub-cultural fan base army that we had gathered from the Potter stuff," he said.

Criss went on to win an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of serial killer Andrew Cunanan in "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story." Now he plays an obsolete robot named Oliver in a new musical, "Maybe Happy Ending," one of the most acclaimed shows currently on Broadway. The New York Times calls it "joyful," "heartbreaking," and "supersmart."

Criss said, "This show begins with a song which is the question the show posits: Why love? Why do we do it? If we know that loving something enters you in a contract that has an inexorable back end – which is the loss of something – why do we do that, if we know that that's gonna happen?" According to Criss, this show came along at the perfect time. He and his wife, Mia, have a two-and-a-half year-old daughter, and earlier this year they welcomed a baby son. I asked, "Does this feel like the best year of your life?" "Well, it certainly is a blessed one," Criss laughed. "I've had some extraordinary years of my life, and I think this has been a certainly exciting time." He's had some hard years, too. In 2020, his father, Bill, died at 78 from a heart condition. In 2022, his brother, Chuck, died at 36 by suicide. Criss said, "I don't necessarily think of my own experience with those people specifically in my life that I have lost. But I do think about the feeling of loss, the sadness and emptiness and loneliness that that yields, because we all feel it. But the things that move me, in life and in ["Maybe Happy Ending"], are not the darkness of the loss, but the Herculean grace that it takes to be resilient in the inevitable truth of that." When he thinks about that, Darren Criss can't help but sing. "I count my lucky stars every day," he laughed. "I'm runnin' out of – there's too many! They're still showing up. I'm doing 'CBS Sunday Morning'!"

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[datshitrandom]

Darren and Mia Criss at Tramp Stamp Granny's | May 12, 2018 | 🎥 // 📸 via TSG's ig

[miavoncrissnews22]

[halles-comet]

I cannot stop laughing @thealogie and I went to tramp stamp granny’s where the singer was all embarrassed and apologizing about disturbing the straight customers by playing Broadway songs and we were like oh so sorry we requested showtunes at the Darren Criss Showtunes Sing Along Bar that’s Owned by Darren Criss

[porcelainvino]

@ everyone: does anyone know what’s in the boobsoup drink at darren criss’ bar tramp stamp granny’s. like. what is in it. i need to tell my mom

[guide-for-the-untrained-eye]

The Starkid/Rocky Horror intersecting fans are thriving today between Curt's post about his Patreon and the TSG show.

[Sources: Curt's Tumblr (Photo 1), Tramp Stamp Granny's IG (photos 2&3)]

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Lili Reinhart & Zoë Kravitz attend Vanessa’s 36th birthday party at Tramp Stamp Granny’s

December 11th, 2024

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Jordyn Woods attending Vanessa Hudgens’ 36th Karaoke birthday party at Tramp Stamp Granny's

[hale-raiser]

Lucy Hale attends Vanessa Hudgen's 36th birthday party on 12/14/24 at Tramp Stamp Grannys.

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RACHEL BROSNAHAN attends VANESSA'S 36th birthday party | Tramp Stamp Granny's | December 1th, 2024

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[UHQ] Darren Criss photographed by Mathew Scott | Source

[sillyname30]

I'm so curious if we will ever know what this pitch was for and if the project involves Darren or if he was just helping.

bydwyer: directed and shot this interview with the multitalented @darrencriss for a pitch 🤞🏻 we got to do this main interview at his @trampstampgrannys piano bar and grateful for the patience and persistence of Cam Op / Gaffer @ryho.dp for dialing in the colors and reflections with all the mirrors and everything the location threw at us 🙌🏻 Putting this together with slim resources, I should note this wide was shot on a #panasoniclumix #gh5 with #voigtländer 17.5mm MFT lens. Such an amazing old-but-solid sensor/lens/codec combo in the right situation 👏🏻 EP: @dreamweaver45 EP: @rickyrollins Producer: Nick Stearn Field Producer: @unicorniodoradogt Co-Director: @jjkrook Co-Director / DP: @bydwyer A Camera Op / DIT: @ljlooksyoung 1st AC: @_mkross B Camera Op / Gaffer: @ryho.dp Key Grip: @mangothemaker Electric: @gpedro153 Sound: @jessedwyer Color: @bydwyer #documentaryinterview #darrencriss #portrait #trampstampgrannys

[datshitrandom]

Darren and Mia Criss at the Apple Original Films 'Spirited' sing-a-long event at Tramp Stamp Granny's | January 11, 2023 | 📸 by Stewart Cook

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EIZA GONZÁLEZ attends VANESSA'S 36th birthday party | Tramp Stamp Granny's | December 1th, 2024