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‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Brings Helen J. Shen to the Broadway Stage

On Monday night, “Maybe Happy Ending” star Helen J. Shen celebrated two notable Broadway debuts: the musical’s, and her own. And both she and the musical are just getting started on theater’s main stage. “Being able to share a new story, completely original to an audience, has been so exciting because there will be times that the audience is completely pin-drop silent,” says Shen of bringing the musical to Broadway for the first time. “And as an actor, I’m like, Oh, did we lose them? Do they hate it? What’s going on? And it’s just that they’re listening so intently, because they have no idea what’s going to come next.” “Maybe Happy Ending,” written by Will Aronson and Hue Park, was originally staged in Korea in 2016, followed shortly by an English-language workshop and Atlanta production in 2020. Shen was working on two off-Broadway shows, “Teeth” and “The Lonely Few,” when she was cast in the Broadway production opposite Darren Criss in May. “[The musical] has had lives before, so [it’s been rewarding] to have autonomy to think about how my take on the character would be different from what’s been done before,” says Shen. “There’s always been room for us to

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