Theater followers who’ve but to snag tickets to Broadway’s “Maybe Happy Ending” can now catch a glimpse of actors Darren Criss and Helen J Shen crooning a wistful duet from the musical.
In a music video launched Friday, Criss and Shen carry out “The Rainy Day We Met,” with music and lyrics by Will Aronson and Hue Park. The track is the primary to be unveiled from the musical’s forthcoming forged album, due out March 14 on Ghostlight Data.
Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden, “Maybe Happy Ending” is a romantic comedy with a science fiction twist. The musical follows a pair of “Helperbot” androids in South Korea. The robots, Oliver (performed by Criss) and Claire (Shen), have been discarded by their house owners as they close to the tip of their service lives.
Watch the music video for “The Rainy Day We Met” beneath.
A malfunctioning charger quickly brings Oliver and Claire collectively, after which they resolve to go themselves off as human beings and embark on a trek exterior of Seoul to find Oliver’s former proprietor. Over time, the 2 start to ponder love, loneliness and different feelings that seemingly exist past their digital constraints.
After earlier stagings in South Korea and Atlanta’s Alliance Theater, “Maybe Happy Ending” opened on Broadway at New York’s Belasco Theater final fall to rapturous reward from critics. At a time when many theatrical productions are nonetheless struggling to attract audiences at pre-pandemic ranges, the musical is a shock hit, with each Criss and Shen poised to be contenders on the Tony Awards this spring.
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“Maybe Happy Ending” marks Criss’ return to musical theater after a near-decade absence, having final appeared on Broadway in a revival of the non-musical drama “American Buffalo” in 2022. The “Glee” and “American Crime Story” actor stated he drew on his school research of the Italian commedia dell’arte to good his character’s mechanical gestures and clean expressions.
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“I’m playing a non-human so the one thing that I want to do the entire time is cry my eyes out,” he advised USA As we speak in November. “For me, every night, I just need like a good like five minutes to cry it out after because the entire show, I’m just gripping on for dear life not to do the one human thing that you want to do the most.”
