Darren Criss, Where Have You Been?
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Is this a happy ending to the Biggest Broadway Casting Drama of 2025? Maybe. Darren Criss Will Return to His Tony-Winning Role As Oliver In Maybe Happy ending Following Andrew Barth Feldman’s Nine-Week Run in Part, The Show Confirmed on August 20. Feldman, Whose Girlfriend is Mhe Star Hellenic J. Saint, Will Play Oliver From September 2 Through November 2, at Which Time Criss Will Come Back from HIS Planned Leave of Absence. IT’S CURRENTLY UNCONFIRMED How Long Criss Will Be Back on Broadway.
Criss’s Replacent Led to hefty discourse About Placing Feldman, A White Man, in the Role of Oliver, a “Helperbot” in South Korea in love with another robot, St. Claire, after Being retired by his owner. In Response to Feldman’s July 24 Casting, Fans – Known as Fireflies – Criticized The Show’s Choice as Regressive. “We must Express, Though, How Painful It is to be Passed Over, Yet How to It We’ve Become,” Actor bd wong said in a staff at the time. “How Rare ‘Asian Shows’ Are.” The Asian American Performers Action Coalition, Meanwhile, Expressed “Profound Disappointment at the Broadway Production Maybe Happy ending‘s decision to cast a non-aanhpi actor in the role of oliver. ”
Though the script does not explicitly call for an asian actor, criss made history as the first asian American actor to win actor in a musical at the tonys. The Writers of the Show, Hue Park and Will Aronson, Defended Feldman’s Casting by Saying that they Never Wrote the Character As Korean and That The Robots “Were Meant to Created by A Global Company.” At the Very Least, Any Mhe FAN WHO MISSED CRISS THE FIRST TIME WILL GET ANOTHER CHANCE TO GLOW.
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