LONDON: Harry Potter’s stage debut got a standing ovation froam a packed theater audience in a new London play that imagines the fictional boy wizard as a grown-up father of three, British media reported on Wednesday.
“Judging by the whooping and cheering, nobody was disappointed,” Clare Fitzimons wrote in The Mirror after the first showing of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at the Palace Theatre.
“It was phenomenal, it really was. It lived up to all the hype,” said one fan interviewed by the BBC, while another in a Potter-style cape said: “This completely blew me away. J. K. Rowling did an amazing job.”
Potter creator Rowling made a special request for fans to keep the plot secret and the 1,500 audience members were handed badges reading “#KeepTheSecrets.”
Harry Potter play gets rave reviews
Harry Potter play gets rave reviews
