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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Broadway Review: Ripping Thriller Shows How Hell Broke Loose
Deadline's review of Broadway's 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow'
We learn soon enough that the Creels have arrived in the lovely if Twin Peaks-ish Hawkins, Indiana, having made a quick getaway after something bad happened in their old neighborhood: Seems a boy had his eyes poked out “accidentally” by little Henry, who has been acting very, very peculiar since he went missing in a cave for a few hours years before, on his eighth birthday. Herding all of it into a smashing piece of entertainment is director Daldry ( The Inheritance, Billy Elliot: The Musical) and his co-director and frequent collaborator Justin Martin ( Prima Facie), who funnel all the moving parts, colors, smoke, mirrors and monsters into a non-stop thrill ride. Knight, Louis McCartney, Burke Swanson with Janie Brookshire, Kelsey Anne Brown, Malcolm Callender, Ta’Rea Campbell, Juan Carlos, 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, Jamie Martin Mann, Patrick Scott McDermott, Sean Mikesh, Stephen Wattrus, Maya West, Eric Wiegand, Graham Winton Running time: 2 hrs 35 min (with one intermission)
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