who plays harry potter in the cursed child
Colin Callender


Productions. Alongside Sonia Friedman Productions and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, Callender is one of the producers of the two-part stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", an expansion of the Harry Potter franchise, which opened on July 30, 2016 in London's Palace Theatre. In 2017, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" won nine Olivier Awards, the biggest single win ever for one production in the history of the awards. " Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" opened on Broadway on April 22
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the Harry Potter franchise, which opened on July 30, 2016 in London's Palace Theatre. In 2017, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" won nine Olivier Awards, the biggest single win ever for one production in the history of the awards. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" opened on Broadway on April 22, 2018 in the newly renovated Lyric Theatre and was nominated for ten Tony Awards and went on to win six, including Best Play. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" will open in
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play out again, unwilling to risk the consequences of altering the past. They all stand with Harry to watch the sad event replay. After returning to the present day, Delphi is sent to Azkaban. Albus and Scorpius now decide to be more active at Hogwarts, with Scorpius expressing interest in trying out for Quidditch and asking Rose on a date. Harry and Albus visit Cedric's grave, with Harry apologizing for his role in Cedric's death. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a two-part play
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adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", a clip from which was shown again in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" as a flashback. The actor who portrayed him in "Prisoner of Azkaban" is unidentified. In the West End play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" we learn that Cedric also frees Albus and Scorpius from Delphi in the Triwizard maze. Albus must then make the decision to let Cedric go on and finish the maze, knowing this is sending him to his
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to 43rd Street. The production is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Sir Colin Callender, and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions. Tickets initially went on sale through Ticketmaster Verified Fan on 18 October 2017, for performances from 16 March through 18 November 2018. The New York Times estimates that it is the most expensive non-musical Broadway play ever, incurring $68 million in opening costs. On 24 October 2017, the Michael Cassel Group announced that it will be producing the Australian premiere of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a British two-part stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany. Previews of the play began at the Palace Theatre, London on 7 June 2016, and it premiered on 30 July 2016. The play opened on Broadway on 22 April 2018 at the Lyric Theatre, with previews starting on 16 March 2018. Its cast is similar to that of the first year on West End, with returning actors Anthony Boyle, Sam
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to bringing it to the stage sometime in 2016. At the time of the announcement, Rowling revealed that the play would "explore the previously untold story of Harry's early years as an orphan and outcast". The following May, Rowling began establishing the creative team for the project. On 26 June 2015, the project was officially confirmed under the title of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", and it was revealed it would receive its world premiere in mid-2016 at London's Palace Theatre. The announcement marked the
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Anthony Boyle


Anthony Boyle (born 8 June 1994) is an actor from Northern Ireland best known for his role as Scorpius Malfoy in the English play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" (2016), for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In spring of 2018, Boyle made his Broadway debut in the West End transfer of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Lyric Theatre, New York City, and was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play at the 72nd Tony
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have its first Canadian premiere in Toronto's Ed Mirvish Theatre. Both parts of the stage play's script have been released in print and digital formats as "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II". The first edition, entitled "Special Rehearsal Edition", corresponded to the script used in the preview shows and was published on 31 July 2016, the date of Harry's birthday in the series and Rowling's birthday, as well. Since revisions to the script continued after the book was printed, an
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Clemmett, Noma Dumezweni, Poppy Miller, Jamie Parker, Alex Price, and Paul Thornley. The story begins nineteen years after the events of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his younger son Albus Severus Potter, who is about to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At the 2017 Laurence Olivier Awards, the London production received a record-breaking eleven nominations and won an again record-breaking nine awards, including Best New Play, Best
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Harry Potter (character)


Malfoy, a classmate from an elitist wizarding family, and the cold, condescending Potions master, Severus Snape, Draco's mentor and the head of Slytherin House. Both feuds continue throughout the series and are settled at the series's end (Draco's in the West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Snape's on his deathbed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In a 1999 interview, Rowling stated that Draco is based on several prototypical schoolyard bullies she encountered and Snape on a sadistic teacher of hers who
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curse rebounds off Harry's defensive spell (Expelliarmus), killing Voldemort. An epilogue "Nineteen Years Later" (set on 1 September 2017) describes the lives of the surviving characters and the effects of Voldemort's death on the Wizarding World. In the epilogue, Harry and Ginny are married with three children, and Ron and Hermione are married with two children. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is a two-part West End stage play. It was written by Jack Thorne, based on a story by
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Deathly Hallows" epilogue in which she is leaving for her first year at Hogwarts, as is her cousin Albus Severus Potter. According to Ron she inherited her mother's brains. Rose is portrayed by Helena Barlow in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2". She also features in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"; she has been played in the West End production by Cherrelle Skeete and Helen Aluko. Hugo Granger-Weasley is Hermione and Ron's son and younger child. He is close in
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eighteenth anniversary of the publication of the first "Harry Potter" novel, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", published on 26 June 1997. On announcing plans for the project, Rowling stated that the play would not be a prequel. In response to queries regarding the choice of a play rather than a new novel, Rowling has stated that she "is confident that when audiences see the play they will agree that it is the only proper medium for the story". Rowling has also assured audiences that the
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, was written by British playwright Jack Thorne based on an original story by Thorne, John Tiffany and Rowling. Some websites were listing all three as authors of the script but by 26 July 2016, the official web site for the play and many others (including the BBC) were listing Thorne as the sole script writer. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is directed by John Tiffany with choreography by Steven Hoggett, set design by Christine Jones, costume design by Katrina Lindsay, lighting design by Neil Austin, music
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Azkaban", Dumbledore warns that the Dementors' perception of humans is unhindered by invisibility cloaks, as they are blind and sense people through emotions. In the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" Harry gifts the Invisibility Cloak to his eldest son James Potter, noting he'd "been going on about the Invisibility Cloak since time itself". However, James' younger brother Albus (the protagonist of the play) steals the Cloak and uses it to evade bullies at Hogwarts. A Foe-glass is a mirror
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, and Hermione as playable characters. In 2017, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment opened its own Harry Potter themed game design studio, by the name of Portkey Games; before releasing in 2018, developed by Jam City. All seven "Harry Potter" books have been released in unabridged audiobook versions, with Stephen Fry reading the UK editions and Jim Dale voicing the series for the American editions. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts I and II" is a play which serves as a sequel to the books, beginning
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two-part stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". He has been played in the West End production by Sam Clemmett, Theo Ancient, Joe Idris-Roberts and Dominic Short. Lily Luna Potter is the daughter of Harry and Ginny, the youngest of their three children. Her name honours two women important to her parents—her paternal grandmother Lily Potter, and her parents' good friend Luna Lovegood. She is two years younger than her brother Albus Severus, making her around nine, and is close
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that "Boyle gives a career-making performance," while "The Wall Street Journal" described him as "the break-out performance". "Variety"s critic, Matt Trueman, agreed, writing, "it's Boyle who really stands out", and both Trueman and Henry Hitchings, in the "Evening Standard", noted that his performance was sure to be a fan favourite. The response to the play from the "Harry Potter" fandom was mixed. Some fans said the story seemed "like a
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Luna taking out the Carrows, and the professors (rallied by McGonagall and Harry) driving off Snape. In the book's climax, the D.A. (alongside the Order of the Phoenix) plays an important role in the Battle of Hogwarts, giving Harry enough time to find the remaining Horcruxes. In the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", an alternate timeline is created in which Voldemort has won the Battle of Hogwarts, killed Harry Potter and triumphed over the wizarding world. Ron and Hermione maintained the last remnants
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play will contain an entirely new story and will not be a rehashing of previously explored content. On 24 September 2015, Rowling announced that the play had been split into two parts. The parts are designed to be viewed on the same day or consecutively over two evenings. On 23 October 2015, it was confirmed the plays were set nineteen years after the conclusion of the final novel "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", and would open at London's Palace Theatre in July 2016. The plays principally follow Harry,
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now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and his younger son Albus Severus Potter. , little more had been revealed about the plot even by those who had attended the previews since 7 June. In the opening scene, set during the epilogue of "Deathly Hallows" in the year 2017, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter send their son, Albus Severus Potter, on the Hogwarts Express to begin his first year at Hogwarts. Harry is now working in a desk job as the Head of Magical Law Enforcement at the
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Potter" films. The franchise has received a total of six Grammy Award nominations, all for films in the "Harry Potter" series. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" garnered eleven Laurence Olivier Awards nominations at the 2017 ceremony, tying the record set in 2008 by "Hairspray", and won a record-breaking nine: Best New Play, Best Director, Best Actor (Jamie Parker), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Noma Dumezweni), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Anthony Boyle)
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Ginny Weasley


sources treat it as a fact. Rowling elaborated on Ginny's future after the release of the book, saying that after leaving Hogwarts, she joined the "Holyhead Harpies" and, after spending a few years as a celebrated player, retired to become the senior Quidditch correspondent at the "Daily Prophet", and to start a family with Harry. In the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", Ginny must help Harry reconcile with their wayward son Albus Severus Potter, and references to events in previous books are
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website for "some of the best seats" in the theatre for the lowest price, advertised at £20 per part. For example, the "Friday Forty" tickets sold on 29 July 2016 were for performances on 3, 5, 6, and 7 August. On 20 December 2015, initial casting was announced with Jamie Parker playing Harry Potter, Noma Dumezweni playing Hermione Granger and Paul Thornley playing Ron Weasley. The casting of the dark-skinned Noma Dumezweni as Hermione sparked fervent discussion, to which Rowling responded that
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Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Director. At the 2018 Tony Awards, the Broadway production won six awards, including Best Play. The play also set the record for highest all-time weekly ticket sales of any play after grossing over $2.5 million at the Lyric Theater for the week ending on December 30, 2018. In December 2013, it was revealed that a stage play based on Harry Potter had been in development for around a year, with the view
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possible casting for this movie. I can only sense a political motive from the people opposing it, and I believe artistic expression must be free from politics." Conversely, when "Harry Potter" received an addition to its installment with the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", it was announced that the character Hermione would be played by Noma Dumezweni, an African actress residing in England. Fans were displeased with this and called it "reverse whitewashing", but J. K. Rowling, the author of the
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edited version was released on 25 July 2017, as the "Definitive Collector's Edition". According to CNN, this was the most preordered book of 2016. In the United States and Canada, the book sold over 2 million copies in its first two days of release. 847,885 copies were sold during the book's first week of release in the United Kingdom. By June 2017, the book had sold over 4.5 million copies in the United States. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has received critical acclaim.
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Jamie Glover


Hamlet" at the Norwich Playhouse, alongside his parents, with Julian Glover also directing the production. He most recently played Peter in the French comedy "What's In A Name?" alongside Nigel Harman, Sarah Hadland, Raymond Coulthard and Olivia Poulet at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in January 2017. He joined the cast of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Palace Theatre, London starting on 24 May 2017, playing the role of Harry Potter. Glover has appeared in the films "These Foolish Things"
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Places in Harry Potter


(after Fred died) reopened the Diagon Alley store, that "it became a tremendous money-spinner,"and that Ron worked for him there after taking Auror training and going to work for the Ministry of Magic. In the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", Ron runs the store nineteen years after the events of the Deathly Hallows. Sells all sorts of equipment used in the wizard world and is where Harry buys his first telescope. Hogsmeade Village, or simply Hogsmeade, is the only settlement in Britain inhabited solely
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Jamie Parker


Jamie Parker (born 14 August 1979) is an English actor and singer, best known for his role as Harry Potter in the original cast for the West End play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", for which he received an Olivier Award for Best Actor. He also received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play as a member of the original Broadway version. Other theater credits include King Henry in the 2012 Globe production of Shakespeare's "Henry V", with notable film roles being Donald Scripps
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Goleby as Ginny Potter, Sean Rees-Wemyss as Albus Potter, Tom Wren as Draco Malfoy and William McKenna as Scorpius Malfoy. The roles of the remaining supporting cast will remain unannounced until the show opens to "honour its 'keep the secret' message (and) to ensure the storyline doesn't slip out". The production will also feature seven child performers. Four boys will alternate the roles of Young Harry and three girls will portray Lily Potter. On 22 May 2019, it was announced that the production would
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Imogen Heap


" via Ethereum smart contracts as of October 2017 were £30,000. Heap wrote the music for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", the next installment of the Harry Potter series in the form of a West End play that opened in the summer of 2016. In 2015, Heap signed a worldwide agreement with Downtown Music Publishing. The deal covers Heap's portion of Taylor Swift's "1989" finale "Clean," plus five songs from Heap's 2014 album, "Sparks": "The Beast",
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McGonagall, Cornelius Fudge, Filius Flitwick, and Hagrid, she does not play a major role in the early part of the "Harry Potter" series. In "Half-Blood Prince" it emerges that in order to fulfil his mission to assassinate Dumbledore, Draco has managed to place Rosmerta under the Imperius Curse. He uses her to pass on a cursed necklace to Hogwarts student Katie Bell, who accidentally touches the necklace and is herself subjected to the very harmful curse intended for the Headmaster. Draco also commands her to
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in history, with the final instalment selling roughly eleven million copies in the United States within twenty-four hours of its release. The series was originally published in English by two major publishers, Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Press in the United States. A play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", based on a story co-written by Rowling, premiered in London on 30 July 2016 at the Palace Theatre, and its script was published by Little, Brown. The original seven books were adapted
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was officially titled "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". The two-part, West End stage play, written by British playwright Jack Thorne is based on an original story by Thorne, John Tiffany and Rowling. It is directed by Tiffany with choreography by Steven Hoggett, set design by Christine Jones, costume design by Katrina Lindsay, lighting design by Neil Austin, music by Imogen Heap, and sound design by Gareth Fry. The story begins nineteen years after the events of "Deathly Hallows" and follows Harry Potter
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in Love, Jerusalem, Ghosts, Mojo, Chimerica, Twelfth Night, Richard III and Old Times. Friedman also collaborated with J. K. Rowling on the 2016 stage play based on the Harry Potter stories, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, in co-production with Colin Callender. Current and recent ATG co-productions include "The End of Longing", starring Matthew Perry; "The Maids", starring Uzo Aduba, Zawe Ashton and Laura Carmichael; "The Homecoming", starring John Simm, Gary Kemp and
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, proving more than a match for all three, and nearly hits Ginny with a Killing Curse. An enraged Molly Weasley engages Bellatrix and fires a curse that hits Bellatrix right over the heart, killing her. Rowling has stated that she had Molly kill Bellatrix to show Molly's great powers as a witch and to confront Molly's consumption with "maternal love" and Bellatrix's obsession with Voldemort. In the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", Lestrange is revealed to be the mother of Voldemort's daughter Delphi
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Josh Berger


franchise, which includes the Fantastic Beasts film series, the visitor attraction Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, theme parks in Orlando, Japan and Hollywood, a suite of digital services and products, as well as the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London’s West End in July 2016 and on Broadway, New York in March 2018. Josh became Chairman of the British Film Institute in 2016, having been a BFI Governer since 2011. A 28-year veteran of Warner Bros.
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's "The River" starring Hugh Jackman. Recent Broadway productions include "Dear Evan Hansen", which won six Tony Awards including Best Musical, and Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s "1984," based on the novel by George Orwell. Recent West End productions include "Dreamgirls" and "The Glass Menagerie," both produced alongside Sonia Friedman Productions. Alongside Sonia Friedman Productions and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, Playground is a producer of the two-part stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, an expansion of
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death. In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", Cedric is portrayed by actor Tom Milligan in the original cast, Rupert Henderson in the second cast and Dylan Mason in the third cast. Gellert Grindelwald () is a dark wizard who, on a list of "Most Dangerous Dark Wizards of All Time," would be second only to Voldemort, according to Rita Skeeter's book "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore." His name is first mentioned in "Philosopher's Stone" on a Chocolate Frog
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Jamie Glover


Jamie Blair Glover (born 10 July 1969) is an English actor. He is best known for being cast as Harry Potter in the second cast of the West-End production of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" in 2017. He portrayed Andrew Treneman in the BBC One drama "Waterloo Road", and starred as Roger Tramplemain in Michael Frayn's comical farce "Noises Off" at the Novello Theatre in 2012. He also appeared as William Russell in the "Doctor Who" docudrama, "An Adventure in
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A Very Potter Sequel


this, Harry meets Ron Weasley and the two quickly become the best of friends. Ron and the others at Platform 9¾ discover who Harry is and begin to treat him like a celebrity. Harry asks Ron why they are acting this way toward him, and Ron tells Harry that he is "The Boy Who Lived," as he survived the Killing Curse and defeated Voldemort as a child. Rita Skeeter also tells Harry about the murderer Sirius Black, who betrayed his parents and is now after his life ("Harry Freakin
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Brooklyn Shuck


musical "Beaches". She has since played many other Broadway roles including Winnie Foster in "Tuck Everlasting" (understudy; 2016), Little Cosette in "Les Miserables" (understudy; 2016), Little Lily Potter in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" (2018), and most recently Nunu Carney in "The Ferryman" (present) Shuck has also played the role of Sadie Mazzuchelli in the NBC show Rise. Shuck was born to Angie and TG Shuck in Lexington, Kentucky on 28 March 2005
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says that Harry and Dudley would "stay on Christmas card" terms for the rest of their lives, and that Harry would take his family to visit Dudley's when they were in the neighbourhood, but it was something that James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna "would dread". However, Dudley's kids and Harry's occasionally would "get together while the adults sat in awkward silence". In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" it is also mentioned that adult Dudley sent Harry his baby blanket,
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by Imogen Heap, and sound design by Gareth Fry. In addition, special effects were created by Jeremy Chernick, with illusions by Jamie Harrison, and musical supervision by Martin Lowe. The producers and Rowling have maintained a campaign called #KeepTheSecrets to ask people who have seen the play not to reveal its major twists. The slogan is printed on the tickets for the play and badges with the slogan are handed out for free during intervals. People buying their tickets online are emailed a video after the play from J.K. Rowling asking
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Emma Lowndes


work includes "Whose Life Is It Anyway?", "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice", "The Seagull", "Port" and "Cold Meat Party". She has also appeared in productions of "Thérèse Raquin", "Measure for Measure", "Topless Mum" and "Three More Sleepless Nights". She joined the cast of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Palace Theatre, London from 24 May 2017, playing the role of Ginny Potter. Lowndes won Best
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Draco Malfoy


In the theatre play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" Draco was portrayed by Alex Price and later by James Howard. In the theatre play Draco has a style like his father's, such as his long hair. Draco was married to Astoria Greengrass, who had died, and has a son named Scorpius. Draco is described as a tall, slender boy with a pale, pointed face, sleek blond hair, and ice grey eyes. Draco is the prototypical spoiled, rich brat; he believes that his family
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Jamie Parker


in the film adaptation of Alan Bennet's "The Lady in the Van". He had a cameo as an estate agent. He originated the role of Harry Potterin the original West End production of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" at the Palace Theatre, London. On 9 April 2017 Parker won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the play. He reprised his performance on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre in 2018, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. In 2009
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to students about the subjects they are paid to teach. In "Cursed Child" Ginny remembers playing this game with Harry following the events of "Chamber of Secrets" and notes that it helped her to recover from the trauma (all the other students avoided her after learning the truth). Gobstones is one of the many magical games played by young wizards in the books, along with Wizard's Chess and Exploding Snap. Gobstones is similar to the Muggle games of marbles and pétanque, except that in Gobstones, the balls
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that. We're not going to tiptoe around Martha's disability or anything.' I liked that. It wasn't some sort of reverential hands-off approach to what we're presenting." She has also been cast in the film "Dredd". In 2016 she appeared in Vera in the episode "Tuesdays Child"she played the role of Amber Haleford" She will join the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre, London from 24 May 2017, playing the role of Hermione Granger. From
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", she leaves Harry without showing any sentiment; however, in a deleted scene on the Blu-ray/DVD release, Petunia shows acknowledgment of the wizarding world, and ultimately deep sadness and remorse for the loss of her younger sister Lily, reminding Harry that she lost a sister as well. In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", Petunia Dursley is mentioned as having died a few years after Harry's second son Albus Severus started studying at Hogwarts. Actress Fiona Shaw portrays Petunia in the films, with
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his soul. With this destroyed, the connections between the two were also broken, and Harry never again felt pain in his scar. Rowling revealed Harry has also lost the ability to speak Parseltongue, though he regained the ability to understand it in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" after his scar began to hurt again following the rise of Voldemort and Bellatrix's daughter Delphi whom Harry, his son Albus Severus, and his allies defeated and sent to Azkaban. In the epilogue of the film, the scar has faded
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Thomas Aldridge


Thomas Aldridge, also known as Tom Aldridge, is an English television and theatre actor. He is best known for playing Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London’s West End. Born in Essex, Aldridge has been working in professional theatre and television since the 1990s. As a child actor, he made his professional theatre debut in the Catherine Cookson play "Fifteen Streets", at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch. He then went on to feature in programs such as "Our Boy" with Ray Winstone
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work of fan fiction" and claimed that it diverged from previously established rules of the universe, criticising the script's characterisation. Some also took issue with the style and plot of the script, complaining that the Time-Turner storylines had already been used, as had Cedric Diggory's death, and that the writers were rehashing old storylines. These criticisms have led to some of the fandom rejecting the play as separate from the "Potter" canon. Some potential plot holes in the story have been highlighted, such as the
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past and change history. Simultaneously, Harry's scar begins to hurt again, causing him to become concerned that Voldemort may somehow be returning. Amos Diggory, who has become old and is cared for by his niece, Delphi Diggory, asks Harry to use the Time-Turner to prevent the death of his son, Cedric Diggory. After overhearing Harry refuse to help the Diggorys, Albus is inspired to do so himself and convinces Scorpius to help him. The two escape from the Hogwarts Express and defeat the trolley operator,
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, Best Costume Design, Best Set Design, Best Sound Design, and Best Lighting Design. The London production was also nominated for Best Theatre Choreographer and Outstanding Achievement in Music. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" received ten nominations at the 72nd Tony Awards, winning six awards: Best Play, Best Scenic Design in a Play, Best Costume Design in a Play, Best Lighting Design in a Play, Best Sound Design of a Play, and Best Direction of a Play. The play was also nominated for Best
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Life of Sugar Water", "Hope", and adaptations of "Let The Right One In", "Woyzeck" (starring John Boyega) and "A Christmas Carol" (starring Rhys Ifans). He also wrote the stage play for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" based on an original story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling, and John Tiffany, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2017 and the 2018 Tony Award for Best Play. Thorne was educated at St. Bartholomew's School,
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, which will swing open if the pear is tickled to reveal a hidden door. Portraits are enchanted to move by the artist, but the degree to which they can interact with others depends on the power of the subject. Rowling has commented that a portrait is merely a faint imprint of the deceased subject, imitating their basic personality and thought patterns. They are therefore "not as fully realised as ghosts". In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" the portrait of Albus Dumbledore describes himself as only "paint and
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Ginny Weasley


recommended that she audition for the part. Ginny was voiced by Victoire Robinson for the "Chamber of Secrets" game, and by Annabel Scholey in "". Bonnie Wright lent her voice to her character in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", and acted as a playable character in certain missions. Poppy Miller was cast as the adult Ginny in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". Ginny's pivotal role in "Chamber of Secrets" was compared by Dave Kopel, citing John Granger's book
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Lord Voldemort


In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", it is revealed that Bellatrix gave birth to Voldemort's daughter Delphi in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts. Twenty-two years later, Delphi poses as Cedric's cousin and manipulates Harry and Ginny's second son Albus Severus Potter, his friend, Draco and Astoria Greengrass's son Scorpius Malfoy into stealing a prototype Time Turner with which she hopes to resurrect her father. Using the Time Turner, Scorpius accidentally creates an alternative timeline where Voldemort killed Harry at the battle and
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)


The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a play by Simon Stephens based on the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon. During its premiere run, the play tied the record for winning the most Olivier Awards (seven), including Best New Play at the 2013 ceremony (this record was surpassed by "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" in 2017 with nine wins). The play premiered on 2 August 2012 in the Cottesloe Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in London before transferring to the
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. The novel has since come to be recognized as a masterpiece of Japanese speculative fiction. Twelve years later, author Hiroshi Aramata wrote the groundbreaking "Teito Monogatari" which reimagined the history of Tokyo across the 20th century in a world heavily influenced by the supernatural. The TV show "Sliders" explores different possible alternate realities by having the protagonist "slide" into different parallel dimensions of the same planet Earth. The two-part play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" contains alternate timelines set within the world of Harry
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Albus is sorted into Slytherin alongside Scorpius. Both boys are bullied by other students over the next few years, Albus due to his perceived failure to live up to his parents, Scorpius due to unproven rumours that he is the son of Lord Voldemort. In addition, Albus and Harry begin to drift apart, owing to Albus's struggles with his father's shadow and Harry's uncertainty on how to deal with his son's issues. Albus also drifts apart from Rose, with whom he was friends before meeting Scorpius and who
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Magical objects in Harry Potter


his father's desk one day." However, in "Cursed Child", Harry is shown to still possess the Marauder's Map and gives it to Professor McGonagall to keep an eye on his wayward son Albus Potter. A Probity Probe detects spells of concealment and hidden magical objects. The detector made its first appearance in "Order of the Phoenix" at the Ministry of Magic as a thin golden rod. After Voldemort's return, Probes are used as part of the increased security at Gringotts as well as for scanning
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Harry Potter (character)


years attempted to kill him. He killed Harry's parents, and then he tried to kill Harry—he tried to curse him... Harry has to find out, before we find out. And for some mysterious reason, the curse didn't work on Harry. So he's left with this lightning-bolt shaped scar on his forehead, and the curse rebounded upon the evil wizard who has been in hiding ever since". As a result, Harry is written as an orphan living with his only remaining family,
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)


Apollo Theatre in the West End on 12 March 2013. The production won 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 (including Best New Play), at the time equaling the record with "Matilda the Musical" in 2012, before both were surpassed by "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" in 2017 with 9 awards. During a performance on 19 December 2013, the ceiling of the Apollo Theatre collapsed causing the production to close. It reopened on 9 July 2014 at the Gielgud Theatre. The play closed at the Gielgud on 3
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Pinocchio (play)


and from the Disney back-catalog. A workshop took place in late 2015 and the production was scheduled to be presented at the National for Christmas 2016, however due to Tiffany's involvement with the two-part West End play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", the production was delayed. In January 2017, Bamigboye revealed that the production would make its world premiere in December 2017, with playwright Dennis Kelly (writer of the smash hit "Matilda the Musical" for the Royal Shakespeare Company) replacing Enda Walsh
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likelihood of Lord Voldemort's infertility, the speed at which the Polyjuice Potion is created, the unexplained non-operation of the Fidelius Charm, and Cedric Diggory's dramatic turn to becoming a Death Eater. However, some fans responded positively to the play and its characters, with Scorpius Malfoy being particularly popular. Some fans commented that the dialogue between the familiar characters was "spot on", celebrating it as a faithful continuation of the books. Others have noted that the play sheds light on some of the relationships between the
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Death Eater


planning to use the lie that Ravenclaws had ambushed Alecto and forced her to press her Dark Mark. McGonagall refuses and argues with Amycus, who spits in her face. Enraged at this, Harry casts the Cruciatus Curse, with such power that Amycus passes out. Later, McGonagall places the Imperius Curse on him, then binds him with his sister and places him inside a net. Ralph Ineson plays Amycus, and Suzie Toase appears as Alecto. Bartemius "Barty" Crouch, Junior is the main antagonist in "Harry Potter
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Jaana Kapari-Jatta


Jaana Marjatta Kapari-Jatta (born 19 May 1955, in Turku) is a Finnish translator of fiction, best known for her Finnish-language renderings of the "Harry Potter" novels and supplementary books by J. K. Rowling, including "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". In her translations of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Quidditch Through the Ages", she used the pseudonym “Kurvaa Aka (Whoss Gue)”. Ms. Kapari-Jatta has also translated several other English-language
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which was directed by Mike Newell and written by Steve Kloves. The film grossed $102.7 million for the opening weekend, and eventually grossed $896 million worldwide. The film was also nominated for Best Art Direction at the 78th Academy Awards. It was also made into a video game for PC, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, and PlayStation Portable by Electronic Arts. It was released just before the film. Much of the plot of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"
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Ministry of Magic, while Ginny is the editor of the sports section of "The Daily Prophet". Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also send their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley on the train. Hermione is now Minister of Magic, while Ron manages Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley. Albus makes an unlikely friendship in Scorpius Malfoy, the son of Harry's former nemesis Draco Malfoy and Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass). The school is stunned when, in a break with the tradition of Potters being sorted into Gryffindor,
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Some audiences and critics have complimented the casting and performances, while many debate the quality of the piece and how it compares to entries in the main "Harry Potter" series. Publications awarding five star ratings included "The Independent", the "London Evening Standard", "The Stage" and WhatsOnStage.com. "The Telegraph" also gave five, although "there are some quibbles," while "The Guardian"'s Michael Billington awarded four stars. Anthony Boyle's performance as Scorpius Malfoy garnered particular acclaim. WhatsOnStage.com wrote
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A Very Potter Sequel


' Potter"). On the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Ron meet Hermione Granger. Meanwhile, a Death Eater knocks out the candy lady and attempts to use the Killing Curse on Harry, but is disarmed by Remus Lupin, who is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. As the train arrives at Hogwarts, Lupin tells Harry not to go looking for trouble. At this point, Harry is introduced to Severus Snape, who instantly takes a disliking to Harry, but Lupin stands up for Harry and
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Rowling said that the encyclopaedia could take up to ten years to complete. In June 2011, Rowling announced that future "Harry Potter" projects, and all electronic downloads, would be concentrated in a new website, called Pottermore. The site includes 18,000 words of information on characters, places and objects in the "Harry Potter" universe. In October 2015, Rowling announced via "Pottermore" that a two-part play she had co-authored with playwrights Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, "Harry Potter and the Cursed
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who is revealed to be a monster placed on the train to prevent students from escaping. The two arrive at St. Oswald's Home for Old Witches and Wizards in Yorkshire, where Amos lives, and team up with Delphi to steal the Time-Turner from Hermione's office, in the Ministry of Magic, while disguised with Polyjuice Potion. Knowing that Cedric's death was the result of him winning the Triwizard Tournament alongside Harry, the boys use the Time-Turner to travel back to the first challenge of the Triwizard Tournament
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Ellie Darcey-Alden


Ellie May Darcey-Alden (born 4 September 1999) is an English former child actress of film, stage and television who is best known for playing young Lily Potter in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2", Francesca "Franny" Latimer in the "Doctor Who" series 7 Christmas special, "The Snowmen" and Felice della Rovere in Tom Fontana's "Borgia: Faith and Fear." Before joining such large franchises as "Harry Potter" and "Doctor Who", she appeared in
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Cursed Child". The series introduces a number of new characters from outside of the Harry Potter canon: Juniper Dias, played by Stephanie Ezekiel, is Parvati's roommate in Los Angeles. She is smart and competitive, and perceives Hermione as a threat to her friendships and position as the smartest person in their friend group. LaQuita Granger, played by Tamara French, is Hermione Granger's muggle cousin. She owns and operates her own fashion design company. Kang Tae Joon, played by Chase Yi, is a star Quidditch
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Jack Koenig


Saint Joan", "Caesar and Cleopatra", and "In Good King Charles' Golden Days," in "Perfect Crime" with Catherine Russell, and in A.R. Gurney's "The Grand Manner" with Kate Burton at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre. On Broadway he has performed in the Tony Award-winning play "Oslo" directed by Bartlett Sher, "Accent on Youth" with David Hyde Pierce, and "The Pitmen Painters". Recently he joined the cast of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"
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Thomas Aldridge


as the role of Tootles in the original cast of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe's musical adaptation of J.M Barrie's "Peter Pan" at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, for which he features on the original cast recording album. He also appears on the original cast recording of Made in Dagenham". In May 2017 he joined the cast of the multi award winning West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre, London playing the role of Ron Weasley. A role he continues
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Harry's blood to regain his full strength in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", and because the actual master of the Elder Wand, Draco Malfoy, had been defeated by Harry making Harry the new master of the Elder Wand. Harry’s ownership of the wand used for the curse and the Horcrux-like connection between Voldemort and Harry diminished Voldemort’s curse and protected Harry from irreversible death. While Voldemort did learn of Harry's telepathic connection, Voldemort was never aware that Harry was inadvertently carrying a fragment of
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. The preview shows started on 18 January 2019 in Melbourne's Princess Theatre and the opening night will be on the 23 February. The show will reportedly have an exclusive two-year residency at the Princess Theatre. Presale tickets were released on 2 August 2018, selling more than 200,000 tickets in just four days, before the public sale tickets were released. The 35 original Australian adult cast was revealed on 2 September and includes Gareth Reeves as Harry Potter, Paula Arundell as Hermione Granger, Gyton Grantley as Ron Weasley, Lucy
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Outer Critics Circle Award


– 5; "Frozen" and "Prince of Broadway" – 4; "Farinelli and the King" and "Travesties" 3;. The award winners were announced on May 7, 2018. Multiple winners are: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" with six awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Play, and "My Fair Lady" with five awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical. "SpongeBob SquarePants", won the Outstanding New Broadway Musical, with two additional awards. Jocelyn Bioh, for "
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Imogen Heap


). In October 2015, Heap revealed her blockchain-based music-sharing program, Mycelia. Heap also composed the music for the West End play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", which premiered in the summer of 2016, and which opened on Broadway in April 2018. , Heap has received two Grammy Awards, one Ivor Novello Award, and one Drama Desk Award. Imogen Jennifer Heap was born in the London Borough of Havering. She played music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several
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was sorted into Gryffindor. Prior to Albus and Scorpius's fourth year, Albus gets into a fight with his father after he is given Harry's baby blanket and a love potion from Ron. During the fight, Harry accidentally says that he sometimes wishes Albus was not his son, and Albus spills the potion on the blanket. Harry obtains a prototype of a more powerful version of the Time-Turner, built by a Slytherin contemporary of Harry's, Theodore Nott, that allows one to travel back several years into the
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in the past, Albus and Scorpius discover they have been taken back to the night before Harry's parents were killed at Godric's Hollow (31 October 1981), and assume Delphi is planning to kill Harry before Voldemort attempts to do so (which severely weakens Voldemort). Albus and Scorpius write an invisible message on Harry's baby blanket, knowing in the present (which is now also the night of the anniversary of the death of Harry's parents, when he often looks for his blanket as it is the only
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While waiting for Delphi, they deduce she intends to convince Voldemort to abandon his doomed attempt to kill Harry, ensuring her father's survival and allowing her to be with him. Harry disguises himself as Voldemort using Transfiguration to distract Delphi, and after a struggle, the group manages to subdue her. Rather than killing Delphi, it is decided that she will be brought to Azkaban Prison. Lord Voldemort then appears and is oblivious to the presence of Harry and the group. The group allows the murder of Harry's parents to
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curse was inflicted) The curse was cast by the evil Tom Riddle, better known as Lord Voldemort, a powerful evil wizard, who had murdered Harry's parents and attempted to kill Harry as a baby, in the belief this would frustrate a prophecy that Harry would become his equal. As an orphan, Harry was placed in the care of his Muggle (non-magical) relatives Petunia Dursley and Vernon Dursley. In "The Philosopher's Stone", Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11 and enrolls
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the Room of Requirement, Crabbe defies Malfoy's order to not kill Harry and casually throws around the Avada Kedavra curse. Finally, he summons magical fire and turns the room into a blazing inferno, but it quickly rages beyond his control and leads to his death and the destruction of the Horcrux. Goyle is knocked unconscious during the ensuing fight, but is rescued, along with Draco, by Harry, Ron and Hermione. Jamie Waylett portrayed Crabbe and Joshua Herdman played Goyle in the first six films of the "Harry Potter
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Dumbledore's Army


Cauldron, and his students think it is particularly cool that he lives above the pub. In the alternate timeline created in "The Cursed Child", Neville was killed by Cedric Diggory at the battle of Hogwarts, which resulted in Voldemort's triumph. These events are undone by Scorpius Malfoy, allowing history to continue as it originally did. Neville was played by Yorkshire-born actor Matthew Lewis in the "Harry Potter" film series. He has appeared in all eight films. He reprised the role for the videogame Lego
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Colin Callender


, 2018 in the newly renovated Lyric Theatre and was nominated for ten Tony Awards and went on to win six, including Best Play. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" will open in Melbourne's Princess Theatre in early 2019, in San Francisco's Curran Theatre in the Fall of 2019, and in Hamburg's in 2020. Playground company has produced over 65 hours of television since inception. Series include the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated miniseries "Dancing On The Edge" for BBC and Starz, the Golden Globe and
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John Tiffany


John Richard Tiffany (born c. 1971) is an English theatre director. He directed the internationally successful productions "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", "Black Watch" and "Once". He has won 2 Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award. Tiffany was brought up in Marsden, near Huddersfield, England. His mother was a nurse, also a chorus girl; his father was an engineer, and also played in a brass band. As a youth, he
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the Rain". In June 2016, the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" opened at the theatre. Commissioned by impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte in the late 1880s, it was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt. Carte intended it to be the home of English grand opera, much as his Savoy Theatre had been built as a home for English light opera, beginning with the Gilbert and Sullivan series. The foundation stone, laid by his wife Helen in 1888, can still be seen on the façade of the theatre
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Hermione's skin was never specified as white. Further notable casting includes Poppy Miller as Ginny Potter, Alex Price as Draco Malfoy, Sam Clemmett as Albus Severus Potter and Anthony Boyle as Scorpius Malfoy. The production features an overall cast of 42. The production began previews on 16 March 2018, officially opening on 22 April at the Lyric Theatre. Clemmett, Boyle, Dumezweni, Miller, Parker, Price and Thornley reprised their roles, from the West End. The theatre removed 400 seats from the auditorium and moved the entrance
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Killing Curse and performs a ritual that rejuvenates Voldemort, who then summons the Death Eaters. Voldemort releases Harry and challenges him to a duel to prove he is the better wizard. A vulnerable Harry tries the Expelliarmus charm to block Voldemort's attempted Killing Curse. The beams from their wands entwine and Voldemort's wand disgorges the last spells it performed. The spirits of the people he murdered are seen in the graveyard: Cedric, Frank Bryce, and Harry's parents. This distracts Voldemort and his Death Eaters, allowing Harry to
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72nd Tony Awards


, 2018. Notes The Tony Award nominations were announced on May 1, 2018 by "Hamilton" alum Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee, who was starring in "Waitress" on Broadway at the time. "Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" each received 12 nominations, tying as the most-nominated shows of the season. "The Band's Visit" received 11 nominations, as did the revivals of "Angels in America" and "Carousel". "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" and the
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Sonia Friedman


the first person to top the list that wasn't a theatre owner. SFP productions and co-productions received an unprecedented 31 nominations in the 2017 Olivier Awards – including a record-breaking 11 for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – the most nominated new play in Olivier history. The show went on to win 9 Olivier Awards – the most ever for one production. In 2018, Friedman was awarded the Equity Services to Theatre Award at the 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards, and was featured in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential
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72nd Tony Awards


The 72nd Annual Tony Awards were held on June 10, 2018, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2017–18 season. The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and was broadcast live by CBS. Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban served as hosts. "The Band's Visit" was the most winning production of the season, with 10 awards, including Best Musical. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" won six awards, including Best Play, while "Angels in America" won
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Hermione Granger


. I find it's so much pressure to be beautiful. Hermione doesn't care what she looks like. She's a complete tomboy." Screenwriter Steve Kloves revealed in a 2003 interview that Hermione was his favourite character. "There's something about her fierce intellect coupled with a complete lack of understanding of how she affects people sometimes that I just find charming and irresistible to write." In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", Hermione Granger is played by the South African-born actress Noma Dumezweni, also
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