My birthday gift to Mom this year is our somewhat-annual Broadway trip for Mother’s Day weekend, and now that she’s been given her gifts I can reveal that we will be seeing ‘Gypsy’ and ‘Maybe Happy Ending’. The former is a special treat, as we were lucky enough to see Audra McDonald in her original roles for ‘Master Class’ and ‘Ragtime’ on previous Broadway trips, and her take on the iconic mother-figure in ‘Gypsy’ sounds like another tour-de-force.
‘Maybe Happy Ending’ has been recommended by a number of theater people whose opinions I respect, and Darren Criss has yet to find a role he cannot full inhabit and make his own. While ‘Gypsy’ has been a stalwart classic for decades, ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ sounds like the most modern musical playing right now – an arresting juxtaposition for a weekend back on Broadway.
