How Netflix Leveraged ‘Stranger Things’ Buzz to Boost ‘The First Shadow’ Ticket Sales on Broadway

Fans left the Dec. 19 performance of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” buzzing after a once-in-a-lifetime moment: Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Henry Creel/Vecna on the hit Netflix series, made a surprise cameo in the show’s epilogue.

“That was one of the coolest reveals of all-time,” one fan told his partner on the escalator after the performance at Broadway’s Marquis Theater.

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Bower appeared briefly in the final scene of the play, which centers on an adolescent Henry Creel (Louis McCartney) grappling with his dark powers after moving to Hawkins, Indiana, in 1959. In the epilogue, an older Creel is introduced to a

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