Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - SPOILER THREAD

Sounds terrible if they cut out all the scenes with the main bad guy    

Would love them to update the Albus and Scorpius relationship here, though

Looking at the Wikipedia page, I’m guessing it was when the one-part version began playing. I saw the show in London last November and also bought a copy of the play text and noticed the extra dialogue in the final scene wasn’t in the play text.

I saw the closing performance of the Year 5 cast and Scorpius was still pining after Rose. (On another note, poor Luke/Scorpius accidentally smashed his face into the floor during the final staircase scene and was scrambling to hide his bloody face...) I revisited the show shortly after for their 1000th performance (I believe this was approx. 1 month into the Year 6 cast taking over) and the change was already in effect. One change that had me scratching my head was Albus remaining a Slytherin after the first time travel - to reduce the number of lines and/or for costume reasons?

I never thought him ending up in Gryffindor made much story sense for the reasons above but the cynic in me does think it was a costume driven decision almost like a halfway between the original 2 part (which by year 5 London wasn’t even the original 2 part if you dial into specifics) and the 1 part. While the 1 part saves on casting some characters entirely it does also introduce a reduction in the number of costumes for some tracks that remain (Draco is one of the more obvious ones but the Snape track is also an example).

To the point about how Harry expects to keep apart two students in the same dormitory in London Draco’s dialogue is slightly changed to address this in the duel scene but I can’t remember the specifics of what he actually says and the 1 part shows Albus being in a single room.

Extremely true - it’s one of those shows where the spectacle of seeing it live outweighs the story. The one part internationally actually makes the plot holes worse and I think tips the weight just too far to even be salvageable.

Perhaps for another thread but I’m really hoping that the Stranger Things play manages to combine the stage craft with a strong story that holds up to even the slightest bit of scrutiny.

I revisited HPP in March and was in the dress circle.  It was quite pricey and the effects were limited to the size of the Palace walls.  My seat in the stalls was as well 6 years ago but the experience was amazing.  

Having seen the production in NYC in 2 parts, that was the total package.  The theatre was rebuilt at $10 million and the effects were all around us, even in the mezzanine, painted into the walls.

I miss some of the scenes and characters cut to bring the running time down for touring.  My visit the London production should  Daniel join in.

Saw this years ago and recently and didn’t notice any difference.

Is there any discount available for this? I just looked at the prices and they're high!

Worth trying the lottery on TodayTix too. I entered recently for the first time in years and won first time, might have just been very lucky or there might not be many entering these days

Where were your seat located?