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Darren Criss appears at the 78th Tony Awards in New York on June 8, 2025, left, and Andrew Barth Feldman appears at the 7th annual Elsie Fest in New York on Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK – The Broadway rom-com “Maybe Happy Ending” isn't in a very happy place these days. A casting controversy threatens to dampen the show's post-Tony Award-winning glow.

The strife began when producers of the South Korea-based musical chose to cast Andrew Barth Feldman as the male lead when original star Darren Criss steps away, in effect replacing an Asian actor with a white one.

That prompted denunciations by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists and prominent Asian American artists such as Conrad Ricamora, Ruthie Ann Miles,

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