Maybe Happy Ending ’s run during the 2024–25 Broadway season was the ultimate feel-good underdog story, but now the show is facing controversy for casting a white actor, Andrew Barth Feldman, to replace Darren Criss in the show’s lead role as the robot Oliver. The Tony-winning production announced on July 24 that Feldman ( No Hard Feelings ) would be joining the show for nine weeks alongside his girlfriend and current star Helen J. Shen , beginning on September 2. The Seoul-set musical was celebrated by fans for its majority-Asian cast, and Criss made history in June when he became the first Asian American actor to win Best Lead Actor in a Musical at the Tony Awards. But following Feldman’s casting, fans and members of the Asian American theater community alike began voicing cr

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