Claire Kwon & Steven Huynh Talk “Maybe Happy Ending” as the Tony-Winning Musical Heads to Detroit!

so Steven, for you hitting the road, I think, like, right now you're in, like, North Carolina or somewhere.

You're bringing this show to places that don't normally get to see theater and Broadway shows like this.

They also don't get to know about the culture that some of the show's about, and the story a- and the representation that you show.

How does that feel? How important is this show for what it represents to so many people?

Yeah, it's kind of like, for me it feels like a full circle giving back kind of moment.

I grew up on the outskirts of Cleveland, and so my first exposure to Broadway was through national tours, um, that would come in through Cleveland.

And so to, to have the opportunity to, to do that and be somebody's first touch point for not just Maybe Happy Ending but even theater itself or, like, musical theater, it, it's something that is a privilege it feels like to me.

And, um, and it, and it's really wonderful to have this form of diversity in our company.

We are a fully, uh, POC company, onstage acting company and offstage with our standbys, and so it really is something that is extraordinary and something that you don't see all too often.

And so it's just the culmination of being able to be someone's first experience with Maybe Happy Ending, someone's first experience with musical theater, and also to share it with the group that we are currently touring with.

It, it's just become the most fulfilling experience, and, like, this first month has flew by, and I can't wait for the rest of our year one of tour.

Which, which brings me, Claire, it's true because it's not a giant c- this is not 40 people on stage.

No.

So you all have to be pretty close-knit.

You are on buses and planes and hotels and trains and backstage and new blocking and new dressing rooms-

[laughs]

... and where am I, where am-

Mm-hmm

... where and so how is it as a tight-knit? What's it like to work with this group of actors?

so Steven, for you hitting the road, I think, like, right now you're in, like, North Carolina or somewhere.

You're bringing this show to places that don't normally get to see theater and Broadway shows like this.

They also don't get to know about the culture that some of the show's about, and the story a- and the representation that you show.

How does that feel? How important is this show for what it represents to so many people?

Yeah, it's kind of like, for me it feels like a full circle giving back kind of moment.

I grew up on the outskirts of Cleveland, and so my first exposure to Broadway was through national tours, um, that would come in through Cleveland.

And so to, to have the opportunity to, to do that and be somebody's first touch point for not just Maybe Happy Ending but even theater itself or, like, musical theater, it, it's something that is a privilege it feels like to me.

And, um, and it, and it's really wonderful to have this form of diversity in our company.

We are a fully, uh, POC company, onstage acting company and offstage with our standbys, and so it really is something that is extraordinary and something that you don't see all too often.

And so it's just the culmination of being able to be someone's first experience with Maybe Happy Ending, someone's first experience with musical theater, and also to share it with the group that we are currently touring with.

It, it's just become the most fulfilling experience, and, like, this first month has flew by, and I can't wait for the rest of our year one of tour.

Which, which brings me, Claire, it's true because it's not a giant c- this is not 40 people on stage.

No.

So you all have to be pretty close-knit.

You are on buses and planes and hotels and trains and backstage and new blocking and new dressing rooms-

[laughs]

... and where am I, where am-

Mm-hmm

... where and so how is it as a tight-knit? What's it like to work with this group of actors?