‘Stranger Issues’ TV Forged Reunite for Play’s Starry Broadway Opening Evening

This opening is an Eleven out of 10!

Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, the play based mostly on the hit Netflix collection, welcomed a couple of starry visitors at its Broadway opening night time on Tuesday, April 22. 

These in attendance at New York Metropolis’s Marquis Theater for the special day embrace Stranger Issues stars Noah Schnapp, Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton, greatest recognized for his or her respective portrayals of Will Byers, Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers within the collection. 

Extra visitors from the small display noticed on the crimson carpet had been Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Matt Modine, Brett Gelman and Priah Ferguson, together with Stranger Issues creators, administrators and govt producers Matt and Ross Duffer. 

Stranger Issues: The First Shadow was conceived by the Duffer Brothers, in addition to Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one scribe Jack Thorne and Stranger Issues author and co-executive producer Kate Trefry. Three-time Tony winner Stephen Daldry directed the work with Justin Martin.

Its Broadway premiere follows its profitable London opening in December 2023, the place it’s nonetheless taking part in.

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The play takes place within the fictional city of Hawkins, Ind., in 1959, many years earlier than Mike Wheeler, Eleven and the younger stars on the heart of the 80s-set TV collection had been born. It focuses on excessive school-aged Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and Bob Newby — the characters performed on display by David Harbour, Winona Ryder and Sean Astin — because it dives into the origin story of Henry Creel. 

Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions produced the present, alongside affiliate producer 21 Laps Leisure. The artistic workforce consists of Miriam Buether (set design), Brigitte Reiffenstuel (costume design), Jon Clark (lighting design), Paul Arditti (sound design) and D.J. Walde (authentic music composition, orchestration, preparations and supervision).  

The solid is led by Burke Swanson, Alison Jaye and Juan Carlos, who step into the roles of Jim, Joyce and Bob, respectively. Different principal roles embrace Rosie Benton (as Virginia Creel), Alex Breaux (as Dr. Brenner), Andrew Hovelson (as Principal Newby), Emmy nominee T.R. Knight (as Victor Creel), Gabrielle Nevaeh (as Patty Newby) with Louis McCartney reprising his position as Henry Creel from the West Finish.

Finishing the solid are Janie Brookshire, Kelsey Anne Brown, Malcolm Callender, Ta’Rea Campbell, Antoinette Comer, Robert T. Cunningham, Ayana Cymone, Tom D’Agustino, Victor de Paula Rocha, Ian Michael Dolley, Dora Dolphin, Nya Garner, Logan Gould, Shea Grant, Rebecca Hurd, Ted Koch, Poppy Lovell,  Jamie Martin Mann, Patrick Scott McDermott, Sean Mikesh, Stephen Wattrus, Maya West, Eric Wiegand, Graham Winton and Azalea Wolfe.

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Trefry, who has written for the Stranger Issues collection since season 2, beforehand advised PEOPLE in an unique interview that the play and the anticipated fifth and last season are reduce from the identical material.

“I am actually excited for season 5 to return out so that everyone can see the complete story as a result of season 5 has a lot to do with Henry Creel,” she stated. “The play and season 5 are sort of a couplet. They’re a part of the identical story. I am excited for everybody to lastly see the entire image.”

Tickets to Stranger Issues: The First Shadow at the moment are on sale.