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Jul. 17th, 2018 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatHarry Potter and the Cursed Child - so co-worker saw the play and raved about it. Said it was like watching actual magic happen on stage. They did things that she still couldn't figure out how they'd managed it. (I know something about stagecraft, so have an idea.) She's a true Harry Potter fanatic.
Anyhow, I found out that the play is eight hours long. It's in two parts. So you get two tickets.
Part one is about 3 and 1/2 hours with a 15 minute intermission. Started at 2PM ended at 5PM. Second part starts at 7PM and ended around 10:30PM or thereabouts. So, 3 and 1/2 hours for part two with an intermission. The theater is amazing and she felt they had plenty of room, but they also had great tickets, a booth of sorts, with drink options and food options.
The tickets? They cost between $413-$1000 for each ticket. Dress Circle is $536 per ticket. Orchestra is over $1000 per ticket. Balcony is over $400 per ticket. She got a good deal and it was given to her as a gift.
So, Broadway has become insanely inaccessible, and the Harry Potter play is almost impossible to take on tour -- it would be ridiculously expensive.
Sigh. On that depressing note...I'd rather pay for Hamilton, it's only 3 hours, and more interesting to me. (I'm not a Harry Potter fanatic. I read the books, enjoyed them, watched the films, enjoyed them, then promptly forgot it all. JK Rowling reminds me of Ronald Dahl light. But I'm not enough of a fan to read her other books or re-read the Potter books, or spend a fortune to see the play.)
Anyhow, I found out that the play is eight hours long. It's in two parts. So you get two tickets.
Part one is about 3 and 1/2 hours with a 15 minute intermission. Started at 2PM ended at 5PM. Second part starts at 7PM and ended around 10:30PM or thereabouts. So, 3 and 1/2 hours for part two with an intermission. The theater is amazing and she felt they had plenty of room, but they also had great tickets, a booth of sorts, with drink options and food options.
The tickets? They cost between $413-$1000 for each ticket. Dress Circle is $536 per ticket. Orchestra is over $1000 per ticket. Balcony is over $400 per ticket. She got a good deal and it was given to her as a gift.
So, Broadway has become insanely inaccessible, and the Harry Potter play is almost impossible to take on tour -- it would be ridiculously expensive.
Sigh. On that depressing note...I'd rather pay for Hamilton, it's only 3 hours, and more interesting to me. (I'm not a Harry Potter fanatic. I read the books, enjoyed them, watched the films, enjoyed them, then promptly forgot it all. JK Rowling reminds me of Ronald Dahl light. But I'm not enough of a fan to read her other books or re-read the Potter books, or spend a fortune to see the play.)
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Date: 2018-07-18 02:13 pm (UTC)From what she said -- it's the special effects and magic show that was amazing. (She didn't say anything about the story.) Also she's a "FAN" of it. Went to the Universal Tour and even has a coffee mug.)
I'm not really -- haven't read the plays. Glanced at them in the book store, read the plot synopsis, and had no real interest one way or another.
I did like the film -- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (it was fun), but not enough to watch again. And I'm looking forward to the next film in that series --- because Jude Law as Dumbledore is an interesting casting choice.
I have a feeling they're gearing up to do films of the plays eventually -- which may explain the length, because two films, instead of one. But as my mother said, it's hard to tour those plays, or have them done frequently, due to length. Angels in America has the same problem...and it's only 5 and half hours long.