This award-winning play has been casting a spell in audiences in London, New York and Melbourne since 2016. Learn more about it and future productions here. Fortunately, time actually works to a movie's advantage. After all, Cursed Child features a grown-up Harry Potter with kids of his own old enough to go to Hogwarts. They could make it a decade from now and still hire Daniel Radcliffe and it would actually improve the movie to let the actors age. For whatever reason, rumors of a Harry Potter and the Cursed Child movie seem to crop up every once in a while. In September of 2019, J.K. Rowling tweeted the above image featuring the Cursed Child emblem and sent the internet into quite a tizzy. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Live Play Summary: Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne.
July 31 is rapidly approaching, and while many Potter-heads are already holding on to the receipts for their pre-ordered copies of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, some are still trying to figure out how you can actually see the play, not just read the script. But if you're wondering if you can watch Harry Potter and the Cursed Child online in order to save yourself a trip to London, I've got bad news for you — you're not a wizard and the play is only in London for now.
There's been no word that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be recorded for any medium, including the internet. According to The Telegraph, it's actually pretty impossible to even get tickets for this year and that the best availability for a chance to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is not until early 2017.
The play's website also has no mention of seeing the show online or in any other fashion other than the stage at the Palace Theatre. In fact, there will be no audio or recording equipment allowed inside the show and the website noted that if a person leaves the theater and returns, they will be checked again to be sure they aren't bringing in any type of recording device.
See why the release of the script is such a huge deal? J.K. Rowling has even started a hashtag, #KeepTheSecrets, as a way to encourage those who see and read Harry Potter and the Cursed Childto not spoil any of the plot for those who don't know.
Can you see how an online version would totally ruin the magic?
From the descriptions of the play to the incredible interviews the creative team of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has given, I think it's safe to assume that this play will never make it to YouTube. It sounds like an epic story that has to be seen to be believed and it probably won't translate well through the internet. Even Rowling herself said the reason why she couldn't turn this play into a novel and instead opted to release the script is obvious.
Still bummed? I get it. But hold out hope that the play will be making a triumphant re-telling on the big screen someday. According to the Independent, Warner Bros, the studio that has brought to life all of the Harry Potter films, has filed for the trademark of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. An eighth movie making its way into the world perhaps?
No matter what, remember to #KeepTheSecrets like Severus Snape, the cursed child's namesake did, OK?
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne, directed by John Tiffany. The production is one show presented in two parts.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child features movement by Steven Hoggett, set by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music & arrangements by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, illusions & magic by Jamie Harrison, music supervision & arrangements by Martin Lowe. Canadian Casting by Dayton Walters, with additional consultation by Jim Carnahan Casting.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is produced by originating producers Sonia FriedmanProductions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, with Canadian producer David Mirvish.
Receiving universal acclaim for its breathtaking magic and stage wizardry, Harry Potter and the CursedChild is the most awarded play in theatre history, winning 25 major U.S. awards, with six Tony Awards including Best Play. It also won 24 major theatre awards in the U.K. and is the most awarded show in the history of Britain’s Olivier Awards, winning a record-breaking nine awards including Best New Play.
Consistently smashing box office records around the world, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is on stage at the Palace Theatre in London, where it received its world premiere in July 2016; at the Lyric Theatre in New York, where it opened on Broadway in April 2018; at the Curran Theater in San Francisco, where it opened in December 2019; and at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne, where it opened in February 2019. The German premiere, the first non-English language production at the Mehr! Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg opens this month and a seventh production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will make its Japanese premiere in summer of 2022.
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Performance dates and ticketing details can be found here.