Harry Potter fans excitedly gathered together recently as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a stage play that imagines the boy wizard as a grown-up father of three, opened at London’s Palace Theatre.
Arriving for the opening gala, creator J.K. Rowling told the Press Association she was “so happy” that fans had heeded her pleas to keep the plot a secret, and said she hoped the play would one day appear on Broadway. Set 19 years after the events of Rowling’s final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the play sees a grown-up Potter working at the Ministry of Magic.
The script of the new play is achieving record sales in the UK and US. Meanwhile, the magic is hitting Asia, too, as aspiring witches and wizards crowded into bookstores to get their hands on the first copies of the new play.
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Nearly 300 fans rushed through the doors of Kinokuniya bookstore on Singapore’s Orchard Road at 7:01am on the release day to become one of the first people in the world to see the new script.
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舞台劇「哈利波特與被詛咒的孩子」近日在倫敦皇宮劇院開演，哈利波特迷興奮地齊聚一堂。在這齣戲中，小魔法師哈利已長大成為三個孩子的父親。
作者JK羅琳抵達首映現場時對記者協會表示，她「非常高興」粉絲能聽從她的請求而對劇情保密，並希望這齣戲有一天能登上百老匯。這齣戲的背景，設定在羅琳該系列最後一集、「哈利波特：死神的聖物」事件後十九年，戲中可以看見長大後的哈利波特在魔法部工作。
這齣全新舞台劇的劇本，在英國和美國都創下最佳銷售紀錄。同時，這股魔法旋風也吹襲到亞洲，許多巫師巫婆迷們湧入書店，要搶購第一批劇本。
新加坡烏節路上的紀伊國屋書店，在出版日當天早上七點零一分就擠進將近三百名粉絲，他們成為全球最早看到新劇本的首波讀者。
（台北時報張聖恩編譯）
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