Original Broadway Cast Recording for Maybe Happy Ending is Now Available
The Original Broadway Cast Recording for the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending is available now.
The release comes via Ghostlight Records on streaming and digital platforms worldwide, with a physical release to follow.
The album – which preserves the new romantic musical comedy’s score by the internationally acclaimed duo Will Aronson and Hue Park – is produced by Deborah Abramson, Ian Kagey, Will Aronson, and Hue Park.
To stream or download the album or pre-order the CD and vinyl editions, please visit https://maybehappyending.lnk.to/OBCR.
The CD, which will be released on Friday, May 16, and the vinyl edition, which is due on Friday, June 13, are now both available for pre-order. Both the CD and the vinyl will include liner notes from Grammy-nominated songwriter Stephen Trask, a synopsis, color production photography, and complete lyrics.
Maybe Happy Ending opened on Broadway on November 12, 2024, at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th St.) to immense critical and audience acclaim, with the show being selected as the “Best Theatre of 2024” by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Time Out NY and Entertainment Weekly and many others. The production is currently on sale through Sunday, September 7, 2025.
About the production
Maybe Happy Ending stars Emmy® and Golden Globe Award-winner Darren Criss (American Buffalo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, “Glee,” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”), Helen J Shen (The Lonely Few, Teeth), Dez Duron (NBC’s “The Voice”) and Marcus Choi (Wicked, Flower Drum Song).
The cast also includes: Steven Huynh (“Blue Bloods”, CBS); Hannah Kevitt (Back to the Future, Broadway), Daniel May (Flower Drum Song, Broadway; Soft Power, Signature Theatre), Christopher James Tamayo (Les Miserables, National Tour) and Claire Kwon (Almost Famous, Broadway) who round out the production as the understudies.
Maybe Happy Ending with music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Hue Park and book by both Aronson and Park is directed by Tony Award-winner Michael Arden (Parade, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol) and features Set and additional Video Design by Tony Award-nominee Dane Laffrey (A Christmas Carol, Once on This Island), Costume Design is by Tony Award-winner Clint Ramos (KPOP, Eclipsed), Lighting Design is by Tony Award-nominee Ben Stanton (A Christmas Carol, Fun Home), Sound Design is by Tony Award-winner Peter Hylenski (Moulin Rouge!: The Musical, Beetlejuice), Video Design by George Reeve (Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, UK), Deborah Abramson (The Gardens of Anuncia) is the Music Supervisor and John Yun is the Music Director. Casting is by Telsey & Co, Craig Burns, CSA, Justin Scribner is the Production Stage Managerand Foresight Theatrical as General Managers.
What’s it about?
Inside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Oliver (Criss) lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a HelperBot 3, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow HelperBot neighbor Claire (Shen) asks to borrow his charger, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship, a surprising adventure, and maybe even…love? Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award, Maybe Happy Ending is the offbeat and captivating story of two outcasts near the end of their warranty who discover that even robots can be swept off their feet. Helmed by visionary director and Tony Award winner Michael Arden (Parade, Once on This Island), with a dazzling scenic design by Dane Laffrey (A Christmas Carol) and book, music, and lyrics by the internationally acclaimed duo Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending is a fresh, original musical about the small things that make any life worth living.
Maybe Happy Ending was written in both Korean and English-language versions. The Korean-language version opened in December of 2016 at DaeMyung Culture Factory in Seoul and subsequently won six Korean Musical Awards including Best Musical. The English-language version was awarded the 2017 Richard Rodgers Production Award and had its U.S. premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in the 2019-2020 season under the direction of Michael Arden.
Tickets can be purchased at the Belasco Theatre box office, at Telecharge, or by calling 212-239-6200.
