New York – A strange force acquired the Marquise Theater, the home of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”, which opened the official Broadway on Tuesday.
This superpower of nature is more eager than her head upside down. The mysterious Netflix world, the broadcasting service to which ENSNARES viewers join in a maze of Maybes, joined with Sonia Friedman Productions to convert a major theatrical real estate into an extension area of the privilege.
Broadway Denizens, byware: A gateway was created in a fictional world in the heart of the theater area, which led to the launch of a breed of supernatural creatures that make a lot of “Harry Potter” look moderate and pillow compared. Disney’s musical plays were accused of turning Broadway into an entertainment park. “Strange things” casts the form of art in the lands of fortified constellations and dragons.
Louis McCartney in the role of Henry Kerrel in “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” in Broadway.
(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
The good news is that the younger demography is to make the pilgrimage to the temple of the favorite tastes of their ancestors. There was a lot of small faces in Marquis, and I had to remember myself that I was preparing an evening press, not a student.
The production, which was directed by the veteran Tony Stepry with co -manager Justin Martin, is amazing in the way the liquidity of the screen and the theater dynamics. The theater proves that it can do almost anything that the cinema can do with the correct design team, guideline imagination and technological know -how.
Unfortunately, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”, written by Kate Trefry from an original story she collaborated with Duffer Brothers (creators in the series) and Jack Thorne, also shows that theater can be exaggerated like any excessive activity movement when it comes to the scheme. While unlimited resources apparently filled with visual effects, drama allows to link themselves with an impossible knot. (Thorne, who won Tony “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” And Obloquy for Broadway bomb “King Kong,” Higili’s creation with this potential artistic housewife is achieved for the doubtful artistic purpose.)
“The strange things: the first shade” at the Marquis Theater in New York City,
(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
The problem with “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” is that it seems as if a fully new season of the series has been pressed in a two-hour plays of 45 minutes-almost the length of three episodes. This is the honest view of an urgent timeline, not to stand out.
I barely succeeded in two seasons of the Netflix series, so hardly an expert in “Stranger Things”. But I noticed that the Duffer brothers did not worry much about leaving the holes of the novel novel even when they had eight episodes to put their vision. Here, the vulnerabilities in the narrative logic are so vain that it will take the most committed fans to fill all the missing pieces of the online myth world that has been accumulated by the series since the first show in 2016.
Gabriel Nevier in the role of Patti Newbie in “strange things: the first shade”.
(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
The main character of “The First Shadow” is Henry Kerrel, a teenager who looks like Pee-Wee Herman but has a malicious side that can give Carrie a night money at a concert. The loyal fans will know Henry from the fourth season of the series, but anyone who has an ounce of meaning will pick up his social tendencies from the way he connects the upper button from his shirt and stares at the average distance.
It is the play pre -series for the series, which is located in the same city, but it takes place in 1959, a generation before hairstyles in the 1980s and the new wave mixture tapes that made the first season of such a Gen X. We meet Joyce Maldonado (Alison Jay) and James Huber Junior (Burke Swanson) when they are in high school, after they registered in Netflix hours with them already with them. As adults, they play by Winuna Ryder and David Harbor.
Louis McCartney in the role of Henry Kreil in “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”.
(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
Luis McCartney (who also starred in the West End Prize winner) plays the role of Henry, a real friend who has a real friend who is the radio that leads him like a transistor security blanket. WIRY and dangerous, the character is also strange. McCartney’s broken photography, other than the clarity of the victim between the victim and the users, raises our sympathy without asking for this.
Henry’s parents hope at a new start after moving the family to Hawkins after some troubles in Nevada. Henry, who has an unpredictable mood and mood, apparently blind child in a bout by Pique, forcing the chalets to Spendadde to Indiana. They want to isolate their son, but it is society that really needs protection.
Henry Kreil (Louis McCartney), Center, with his parents, Victor (Try Knight) and Virginia (Rosie Benton).
(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
In Hawkins High, other students feel strange Henry the way the sharks are in water. One of the rich paradoxes of “strange things” is the way the harshness of ordinary teenagers is made to look corrupt like anything in her head upside down, and it is the alternative dimension in which humans sometimes hunt and speak the demonic forces.
Patti Newbi (Gabriel Nevier), the daughter of the director who feels like strangers at home and at school, provokes friendship with Henry. They end up getting tense dramatic conditions, in the music school, and romantic from sensitive strange balls. While Henry is trying to resist the dark forces that run the riots inside, Patti captures the finding of the mother who abandoned her, or thus she was believed.
Through its broadcast, we can eavesdrop on people in a non -time or place. Patti agrees to find her mother, but evil things happen in Hawkins. It raises a murder of brutal pets’ murders fears that it will be well obsessed. Henry’s colleagues start their investigation, which he inevitably gets to the front door of Henry.
Broadway casts “strange things: the first shade”.
(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
With the start of Hawkins High Musical, Dr. Brenner (Alex Prox) is competing, and his laboratory is mastered to control Henry in a secret government plot but part of a peripheral background that grows more ever. (The play is opened with a marine ship under a mysterious attack that may have to do with a story of origin from her head, but it will take a doctorate degree in “strange things” studies to empty it.)
Daldry and the crack production team move from one scenario to another easily. There was a time when theater artists were encouraged to search deeper into what made the theater unique as a form – the most prominent of which is the tangible relationship between actors and spectators.
“The strange things: the first shade” opens with a marine ship in a mysterious attack.
(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow” explains that the theater should not hinder it from competition with film, television and video games. The play can move not only from one place to another but also from average to average. But just because the theater does not mean that it should. All the credit for the incredibly incredible Miriam Buether design, JON CLARK dynamic lighting, especially the Paul Arditti sound design for spinal design and ethereal DJ Walde music in order to convert the Marquis into the fun of the mind. But what is really needed by production is a migraine doctor who is able to treat the miracle.
With Henry’s bad behavior from camouflaged to the Gorge Festival, the transformations from the blood -covered laboratory to the Hawkins Boppy musician look out of the hot. One of Henry’s powers is the prey to the painful fears of his imagined enemies, and “strange things: the first shade” is able to call the horrific critic vision of the theater for the Broadway era in which the meaning is completely ignored for the violent feeling.
Hawkins Drama Club may be the hope of the creative team to save the culture in some way from the end of the world. The talented design and innovative design team makes it difficult to bet against the future of the theater. But the brand reminders of the Campy Netflix brand, from the theme of the non -message music to the Gothic series of the title to the next Jokey “option” or “Watch Credits”, which was running at the end of the show, indicates that there is already an indelible force there ready to make the zombies from us all.
