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How They Built the Genius Sets of Broadway’s Maybe Happy Ending
This feat of stage wizardry can only be described as magical futurism.
Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway.
Photographer: Matthew MurphyIn the future, if you believe the new Broadway show Maybe Happy Ending, many of us will have in-home robots helping us with our daily tasks, mixing drinks and chatting with us about everything from music to our hopes and dreams in an eerie simulacrum of genuine companionship.
It’s a world that’s at once intimate, slick and deceptively cold. Or at least it could be. But, in a visually formidable and technically precise production starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen that opens on Nov. 12, the environment that’s created by scenic designer Dane Laffrey is expansive, imaginative and bursting with warmth.