‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Review: Broadway’s Deeply Moving Robot Musical, Starring Darren Criss, Teaches Us How to Be Human

Are we human, or are we… robots?

Maybe Happy Ending,” a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question — or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what it means to be human, what makes us human, and what it is that separates us from robots — but instead of doing this from a human angle, it takes the robot perspective. The musical by Will Aronson and Hue Park is set in a near-future Seoul, and concerns Oliver (Darren Criss of “Glee” and “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) and Claire (Helen J Shen in her Broadway debut), two human-like robot “HelperBots”

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