Darren Criss to Return to Broadway as a Robotic in Love

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Darren Criss, who parlayed a breakout position on “Glee” right into a multifaceted profession in tv, theater and music, will return to Broadway this fall in a brand new musical that’s nominally about robots however can be about life, love and loss.

The present, “Perhaps Pleased Ending,” is a rarity for Broadway: a completely unique musical — not tailored from a pre-existing story or music catalog. Criss will star alongside Helen J Shen and two different actors within the musical, which is ready in Seoul within the late twenty first century and is about two outmoded helperbots who meet at a robotic retirement house and forge a relationship whereas grappling with their very own obsolescence.

The musical, by Will Aronson and Hue Park, had an preliminary Korean-language manufacturing in Seoul in 2016, and an English-language manufacturing in Atlanta, on the Alliance Theater, in 2020, the place Jesse Inexperienced, a New York Instances chief theater critic, known as it “an enthralling, Broadway-ready new musical about robots in love.”

The Broadway manufacturing, introduced Tuesday, shall be directed by Michael Arden, who additionally directed the Atlanta manufacturing, and who final 12 months gained a Tony Award for guiding a revival of “Parade.” “Perhaps Pleased Ending” is scheduled to start previews Sept. 18 and to open Oct. 17 on the Belasco Theater.

“It’s an odd, futuristic have a look at love, with a phenomenal rating that feels fairly basic,” Arden mentioned in a phone interview. “After I first learn it I discovered it completely devastating and heartbreaking and exquisite — it was one of the human tales I’d come throughout, regardless that our leads aren’t human.”

Criss, an Emmy winner for “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” final appeared on Broadway in a 2022 revival of “American Buffalo”; he had beforehand starred in “Hedwig and the Indignant Inch” and “Easy methods to Achieve Enterprise With out Actually Attempting.”

“Perhaps Pleased Ending” would be the first Broadway present for Shen, who’s at the moment in “The Lonely Few” at Off Broadway’s MCC Theater. Criss and Shen will play the robots; the solid can even embody Dez Duron, a onetime contestant on “The Voice.”

“Perhaps Pleased Ending” is being capitalized for $18.25 million, in response to a submitting with the Securities and Change Fee.

The musical’s lead producers are Jeffrey Richards and Hunter Arnold, who on Friday introduced that also they are among the many producers of a brand new Off Broadway play, “N/A,” starring Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe. That play, written by Mario Correa and directed by Diane Paulus, is to start previews June 11 and to open June 23 on the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The play, described in a information launch as impressed by actual individuals and occasions, is about tensions between the primary feminine speaker of the Home and the youngest girl elected to Congress; the characters have parallels to Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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