Broadway Licensing Global: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in schools

With such a technical show and one built on the most magical of special effects, one wonders how it will even be possible to create something that would work in youth or amateur settings. It seems that this was also in the thoughts of the creative team behind adapting the play.

Both Broadway Licensing Global (BLG) and the Cursed Child teams worked on the adaptation and their starting point was to ‘look at the mechanics of the title.’ In order to get this right, there were some important distinctions to make at the start of the process, as explained by Jeff Keilholtz from BLG. ‘You look at the major beats of the show and see if there are things that can be removed or compressed to trim down the runtime. Another consideration at the start was to look at any technical elements and how those aspects could be simplified so that schools feel confident that they can produce the show successfully.’