finale barreled up the stairs of W. 50th’s Circle on the Square Theatre and through its upper lobby, where the excited cheers of a stacked house spiked against the heart-pounding beat of “Blast Off” like an aural electrocardiogram.
For those not able to get tickets, a live stream captured that same swirl of noise — half cheers, half claps, all glowsticks — amid the sea of bodies pressed to the ’s walls. The room’s buzzy energy mirrored both the messages captured for days by the show’s Instagram story, as well as what had awaited‘s composer Helen Park and several of its stars only the night before at a rally outside in the alley it shares with the Gershwin Theatre.