A new Broadway musical about people in love? OK. A new Broadway musical about people in love who are robots? I don’t think so. That’s what I feared when I arrived with trepidation at the Belasco Theatre to see Maybe Happy Ending and stayed to be totally overwhelmed by the best, most beautiful, innovational and original musical I’ve seen in what feels like eons. To quote Alan Jay Lerner’s lyrics to “I Could Have Danced All Night” in My Fair Lady:

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I’ll never know what made it so exciting

Why all at once my heart took flight…

But I am in love with Maybe Happy Ending. If you care about enchantment I think you will be, too.

Darren Criss, the dynamic and self-assured young actor who exploded on the television scene as the sexually confused killer in the TV mini-series The Assassination of Gianni Versace and won an Emmy, Golden Globe, Critic’s Choice and SAG award for it, makes a triumphant return to the New York stage as Oliver, a handsome Helperbot who has been........

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