Maybe Happy Ending
Opening Night: November 12, 2024
Theater: Belasco Theatre
Website: www.maybehappyending.com
Inside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Oliver lives a happily quiet life, listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a Helperbot 3, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow Helperbot neighbor Claire asks to borrow his charger, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship, a surprising adventure, and maybe even…love?
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November 12, 2024
The show feels new and more overwhelming on Broadway, the consequence of a staging so fully imagined, sensitively expanded and brilliantly executed that it’s impossible to tell where one element ends and another begins.
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November 13, 2024
And really, this is a show pulling on the threads that make Disney’s capital so everlasting: gorgeous visuals and pure heart.
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November 12, 2024
One becomes aware, throughout its lush 100 minutes, of what a humbly groundbreaking experience is unfolding onstage. This is a very special show; a tender, visionary ode to the space we’re able to create and hold for feeling, and the hope that it may continue.
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November 12, 2024
“Maybe Happy Ending” is an undeniably moving, well-made, adorable musical, and it is a pleasant surprise to see an audience weep at a show about two robots in love.
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November 12, 2024
Maybe Happy Ending exudes an undeniable charm and warmth, which sets it apart from many other new Broadway musicals these days that go for bombast over emotion. Refreshingly original, this story about two robots who, for a brief moment, meet each other halfway, becomes a poignant celebration of finding connections in an ephemeral world.
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November 12, 2024
Directed by Michael Arden, showing a flare for comedy and lightheartedness-amid-the-desolation only hinted at in his fine, recent revival of Parade, Maybe Happy Ending is buoyed not only by the endearing performances but by a score (music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Hue Park) that effectively makes a case that the genre known as Contemporary Musical Theater still has plenty of joy and pleasures to offer.
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November 12, 2024
More than delivering big, Arden knows how and when to hold back to make the audience a participant. His direction never fails to activate the imagination.
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November 12, 2024
It’s a darling gem of a show with a big heart and a captivating sideways sensibility. And in a Broadway assembly line churning with revivals and remakes, it’s a refreshing model of innovation.
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“Maybe Happy Ending” is undoubtedly the most original musical to grace Broadway since 2022’s “Kimberly Akimbo,” another small story with big ideas and even bigger emotions.
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November 12, 2024
Arden and his actors approach the material with a delicate touch; they trust the romantic comedy to be charming, which it is, and let the wistfulness emerge naturally.
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Director Michael Arden’s gorgeous staging makes the most of Dane Laffrey’s multilevel sets behind sliding panels and George Reeve’s floor-to-ceiling videos. As Oliver and Claire fall, it’s easy to do the same for the show. No maybe about it — Maybe Happy Ending has theatrical magic.
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Aronson and Park’s score is a savvy mix of bubbly traditional musical-theater numbers—Oliver and Claire’s “When You’re in Love” will be bopping through your head for days—and single-malt-smooth swing music.
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A musical charmer, Maybe Happy Ending offers a delicate, ultimately touching story distinguished by a graceful score and enhanced by fine performances and a beautifully designed production.
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Maybe Happy Ending dazzles with its love story and astounds with its visual accomplishments. There’s nothing robotic about this production: it wears its heart on its sleeve and on charm alone, succeeds.
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