12/01/2025
So for those who have not seen the Broadway play for Stranger Things: First Shadow here's a quick rundown because it really IS very important to the story. And yes the Duffer bros were VERY involved with the play and what was and was NOT to be revealed.
Let's start with Dr Brenners dad, he went on a mission and wound up in dimension X and was the only survivor (i think he was either contaminated .. like will... or brought back something..) whatever it was, was being kept at the lab until a scientist defected and took it and ran off...... he leaves it in a cave....
Henry is on a boyscout hike and gets lost...wanders into the cave and is in there 12 hrs. He's transported to dimension X and the mind flayer gets inside of him (like he does to will) it doesn't go into detail but a kid ends up in a wheelchair and the creels inherit some money and bounce.... they end up in Hawkins (i believe there's also something about the house)
Henry starts high-school and is going to act in the school play... put on by Joyce! Yup Joyce and their bio dad, Hopper, Bob, Karen and Ted, Steve's dad, and Bob's sister Patty! Yup Bob's sister!(I prob left out a few adults but u get the idea) She's adopted and feels like an outsider so Henry and Patty hit it off. He wants to help her find her mom (with his powers) and invites her over, her dad walks in and Henry gets upset (when he's upset the mind flayer takes over without control) her dad gets hurt but she can see it's not Henry and tries to help him. Meanwhile Dr Brenner finds him and tells him everything and how he wants the mind flayer Henry agrees at first but when it crosses the line of human sacrifice to power himself (the mind flayer grows strong and powerful when it charges through absorbing the energy of souls basically, it inherits their memories and energy) Henry goes home, so of coarse Brenner gets into his mom's head she can see her son has changed and scared of what he's capable of so Brenner manipulates her into believing Henry is bad and dangerous and needs him. So when he gets home he can hear her thoughts, her deepest thoughts of him, the mind flayer completely takes over and kills his mom and sister, he didn't have any control. Scared and terrified he runs to the play (to find Patty, they were going to run away together, he tells her to go, go now and he'll be right behind her) Brenner shows up and saying he's bad and dangerous, patty is screaming at Brenner and he tells her about Henry's mom and sister saying he did it without a thought or remorse, Henry gets upset and there's lights blowing up and the scaffolding they all 3 are on breaks and collapses causing Patty to fall and end up in a coma.
There's a quick scene with lots of newspaper clippings, one says she's in a coma then she goes missing..... but the ending scene is her finding her bio mom 🥰
Anyway any questions just leave below I'll try best to answer, you can watch the play on YouTube and there's a behind the scenes of the play on Netflix 😉
