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Harry Potter Returns To Broadway, With A Facelift
The Boy Who Lived will return to Broadway after surviving the pandemic. But he’ll be sporting some new scars.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the two-part play that continues Potter’s story 19 years after the events of the books, will resume performances on November 16 at the Lyric Theatre. However, the creative team performed major surgery during the industry shutdown: Cursed Child will now be one extra-long play, rather than two separate performances.
“Given the challenges of remounting and running a two-part show in the US,” said producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, “and the commercial challenges faced by the theatre and tourism industries emerging from the global shutdowns, we are excited to be able to move forward with a new version of the play that allows audiences to enjoy the complete Cursed Child adventure in one sitting eight times a week.” สล็อต ฝาก-ถอน true wallet
No word yet on which content has been excised, whether this will have any effect on casting and available roles, or a final runtime for the new version. Tickets go on sale July 12.
Rumors of the rewrite have been swirling in industry circles for months; even before the pandemic, the possibility was on the table. The play was capitalized at $35.5 million, making it the most expensive in Broadway history, on top of a further $33 million spent refurbishing the Lyric Theatre in 2018. And while it opened to enormous box office receipts, becoming the highest-grossing play in Broadway history, ticket prices cratered only a year later, dropping more than 50% to where the show was barely breaking even.
The tacit admission here is that two-part plays simply do not work commercially on Broadway. Not enough buyers are willing to purchase two tickets for a single experience, especially at the industry’s premium price points, which regularly exceed $200 a pop. We now have data covering a wide spectrum of ventures, all of which reaped critical acclaim, none of which sold well enough to recoup their costs.
First, the prestige revival. Angels in America is arguably the most influential multi-part play in theatre history, and while its 2018 remount won a bevvy of Tony Awards, it lost much of its capitalization, according to investors.
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