The actors in Cursed Child create effects that would have been done digitally onscreen with their own bodies, and with the help of some special crew members.

This isn't usual for a Broadway show, but then not that many shows are this physical. Grunts and groans ripple around the room as Brown leads everyone through their paces. There's yoga, stretching, and some hard-core calisthenics. But instead, I end up in a rubber-floored workout room where today's cast is warming up for the show, directed by movement captain James Brown III (who also plays the magisterially surly Bane the Centaur).

The story takes place nineteen years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. So I went on my own journey, backstage at the current Broadway production, to see how that magic is made.Īround and under the stage of Manhattan's Lyric Theater, there's a warren of corridors and staircases so complex you almost expect to pop out in Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play written by Jack Thorne, based on an original story written by J. And the show's creators have documented that process in a lavish new coffee-table book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Journey.

The result is a spectacle that relies much more on human-powered magic than special effects trickery. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. 'I've seen some very interesting, um, artwork.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Subtitle The Journey: Behind the Scenes of the Award-winning Stage Production Author Jody Revenson and J. 'I've seen some interesting things,' Boyle says. he's seen it all, though he wasn't exactly eager to discuss it. Graphic fan art, shipping, slash fiction. Harry Potter has given Anthony Boyle a lot, but it's also exposed him to one of the weirder sides of the internet: intense fandoms. A post shared by Harry Potter on Broadway (cursedchildus) The show is centered around the children of Harry and Ginny Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and Draco Malfoy, who. 'I was just thrown into this massive franchise, and after that, everything changed for me. 'I didn't know what I was getting myself into, and it was a real baptism fire,' he says. Harry struggles as a parent he tries to be closer to his son Albus, but fails to connect. Harry Potter is now the Head of Magical Law Enforcement. Now, he's starring in HBO's new miniseries, The Plot Against America, but Boyle tells Inverse he owes his career to the universe created by J.K. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Character List Harry Potter The 'Boy Who Lived' and savior of the wizarding world, who defeated Lord Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts. The 25-year-old Irish actor played Draco Malfoy's son in the original West End production of the Harry Potter play and helped bring it to Broadway in New York.

Anthony Boyle doesn't play Scorpius Malfoy anymore, but for millions of fans, he'll always be the unlikely protagonist of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

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