Viral Corn Kid Tariq Hits the Red Carpet for Broadways Shucked a New Musical About Corn

Julia Moore is a digital news writer at PEOPLE. She recently received a Bachelor’s in in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and has been an avid PEOPLE reader for years. Tariq, the 7-year-old dubbed the “Corn Kid” who first went viral online in August, was in his element Tuesday night as he attended a premiere of Shucked, Broadway’s newest original musical that features corn prominently in its story. The internet star posted for photographers on the red carpet, smiling with the life-sized corn imagery behind him. “Tonight was absolutely CORNNNTASTICCC 🌽,” he wrote on his TikTok of…