{"id":16224,"date":"2024-11-08T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16224"},"modified":"2024-11-08T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:24:12","slug":"broadways-maybe-happy-ending-asks-can-robots-fall-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16224","title":{"rendered":"Broadway\u2019s \u2018Maybe Happy Ending\u2019 Asks: Can Robots Fall in Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMaybe Happy Ending\u201d had an initial Korean-language production in Seoul in 2016. Here are five things to know about the show.<\/p>\n

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Hue Park was sitting in a Brooklyn coffee shop in the spring of 2014 when \u201cEveryday Robots,\u201d an indie pop ballad by Damon Albarn, floated over the speakers: \u201cWe are everyday robots on our phones \/ In the process of getting home.\u201d<\/p>\n

What if, Park thought, there were a whole world filled with robots who looked just look humans?<\/p>\n

The result: a one-act Korean-language musical about a pair of abandoned robots who fall in love in Seoul in 2064. The show, which Park wrote with Will Aronson, a former New York University classmate, found success with its premiere in Seoul in 2016, and five subsequent commercial productions there.<\/p>\n

The New York Times critic Jesse Green, who saw an English-language production at Atlanta\u2019s Alliance Theater in 2020, called it \u201ccharming\u201d and \u201cBroadway-ready.\u201d<\/a> Now that version will open at Broadway\u2019s Belasco Theater on Nov. 12, starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen.<\/p>\n

The story is about two outcast helperbots who meet at a robot retirement home and build a relationship while grappling with their own obsolescence, and Park thinks it is especially relatable after the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cPeople have become so comfortable staying alone in their rooms and connecting to each other through a screen,\u201d he said in a recent interview in Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Shortly after previews began last month, Park, 41, a former K-pop lyricist who wrote the show\u2019s lyrics, and Aronson, 43, who wrote the music \u2014 both collaborated on the book \u2014 talked about their inspirations and the different approaches to developing the show\u2019s Korean and English versions. In a separate video call, Criss, 37, and Shen, 24, <\/span>discussed the challenges of playing robots who look like humans.<\/p>\n

Here are five things to know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMaybe Happy Ending\u201d had an initial Korean-language production in Seoul in 2016. Here are five things to know about the show.Hue Park was sitting in a Brooklyn coffee shop in the spring of 2014 when \u201cEveryday Robots,\u201d an indie pop ballad by Damon Albarn, floated over the speakers: \u201cWe are everyday robots on our phones \/ In the process of getting home.\u201dWhat if, Park thought, there were a whole world filled with robots who looked just look humans?The result: a one-act Korean-language musical about a pair of abandoned robots who fall in love in Seoul in 2064. The show, which Park wrote with Will Aronson, a former New York University classmate, found success with its premiere in Seoul in 2016, and five subsequent commercial productions there.The New York Times critic Jesse Green, who saw an English-language production at Atlanta\u2019s Alliance Theater in 2020, called it \u201ccharming\u201d and \u201cBroadway-ready.\u201d Now that version will open at Broadway\u2019s Belasco Theater on Nov. 12, starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen.The story is about two outcast helperbots who meet at a robot retirement home and build a relationship while grappling with their own obsolescence, and Park thinks it is especially relatable after the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cPeople have become so comfortable staying alone in their rooms and connecting to each other through a screen,\u201d he said in a recent interview in Midtown Manhattan.Shortly after previews began last month, Park, 41, a former K-pop lyricist who wrote the show\u2019s lyrics, and Aronson, 43, who wrote the music \u2014 both collaborated on the book \u2014 talked about their inspirations and the different approaches to developing the show\u2019s Korean and English versions. In a separate video call, Criss, 37, and Shen, 24, discussed the challenges of playing robots who look like humans.Here are five things to know.Shen and Criss star alongside two other actors in the musical, which is at the Belasco Theater in Manhattan.Jeenah Moon for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16226,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16227,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions\/16227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}