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\n\tDarren Criss and Helen J Shen are headed to Broadway to star in the musical Maybe Happy Ending<\/em>. The pair sits down to discuss what it\u2019s like to work with each other, how they got the roles, the beauty of musicals and more!<\/p>\n \n\tDarren Criss: \n\tHelen J Shen: \n\tDarren Criss: \n\tRebecca Milzoff:<\/strong> The heart and the plant.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tDarren Criss: Most importantly, the main star of our show. He couldn\u2019t make it today. He\u2019s already on the private yacht. Yeah, he\u2019s partying on a yacht somewhere.<\/p>\n \n\tWe\u2019ll give Hua Boon his moment later on, I feel like the show is straightforward to explain, but also sort of defies description in so many ways. I would love to hear when you\u2019re giving kind of your elevator pitch on it to friends and people considering coming. How do you describe Maybe Happy Ending<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tDarren Criss: There\u2019s what the story is, and then there is what the show is about. Those aren\u2019t necessarily the same things. Thematically it\u2019s kind of about, yeah, two elderly people in hospice that decide to break out of the situation, to go connect with their family. Now that is a really grim, depressing construct for a show. So why would you ever want to see a musical comedy about that?\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is a funny little backdrop, because before we were like in previews. We\u2019ve done performances for audiences over 20 times, I think, or something like that. This is we\u2019ve met for \u2026<\/p>\n
Probably 48 hours, less.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yeah, just a couple, yeah. This is, this is so proto what we are now. The show looks very different from this. I don\u2019t have, none of us have our wigs on, but I think the heart is there, I suppose. So I don\u2019t want to misdirect it too much.<\/p>\n