Casting notifications for production tip that well-known prequel play to strike Netflix series might open in New York City in 2025
3 months after Complete stranger Things: The First Shadow opened in London, the phase play based upon the hit Netflix series is currently outlining its transfer to Broadway.
According to Broadway World, casting notifications for the Broadway run of the well-known play have actually currently been published, with an approximated opening date at some point in 2025. Like the London production, Stephen Daldry is noted as director of the New York City staging.
The prequel play– composed by Kate Trefry and based upon an initial story by Complete stranger Things developers the Duffer siblings– opened in December 2023 at London's Phoenix Theatre to much better evaluations than the previous couple of seasons of the Netflix sci-fi drama.
The First Shadow works as an origin story for what ultimately occur in Hawkins, Indiana, with the play embeded in 1959 and including more youthful variations of Complete stranger Things characters like Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado, Henry Creel, Dr. Brenner, Bob Newby and other Hawkins citizens.
In a current interview with Deadline, Louis McCartney, who plays Henry Creel in the phase production, discussed the possibility of The First Shadow crossing the Atlantic. “Broadway is an interesting discussion,” McCartney stated. “Obviously everyone's discussing it, and I ‘d be more than chuffed to do it. The thing is, the future holds a million possibilities. And there's some that I can't pick. There's things that the 3rd party will choose. And I'm simply sort of open up to whatever.”
In January, the Duffer bros exposed that production on the 5th and last season of Complete stranger Things — which was affected by both the authors and stars strikes– was back underway.
