HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD 2021 Previews- Page 6

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 11:41am

lmk when they release the 100-minute-no-intermission cut!

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 12:21pm

Can Anyone detail what's been cut from the chicago version to get the show under 3 hours?

[MrsSallyAdams]

Posted: 10/23/24 at 9:09am

The Albus and Scorpius conversations appear unchanged from the 3.5 hour version. The magic tricks are still there though Chicago's adjusted them to remain within the proscenium. The adult scenes are cut quite short. Whenever the adults have to be caught up on what the teens are doing, or vice versa, we fast forward to the sound of a ticking clock. 

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 11/28/24 at 3:04am

I saw the under 3 hour version today at the Lyric Theatre. I was at the first two preview performances there in 2018 and haven't seen the show since, so I have no frame of reference on the 3.5 hour version. 

The thing that struck me most is absolutely every moment I remember from the two performance show is still there. I know from reading online dream sequences and a Lily Potter Jr plot were cut, but I don't really remember those parts. So from a plot perspective, there was probably a lot of fat to trim. 

On the other hand, I enjoyed the watching the 5.5 hour version considerably more, so something was missing from a character development standpoint. The clearest example I can point to is in the long version Albus and Scorpius's interest in each other felt romantic in nature but is not directly addressed. In the shorter version, the relationship came across as more platonic until the two lines at the end, where the script implies they are a couple.