For myself, my date, and the two couples around me at Harry Potter, Ms Vincentelli's comments are spot on. The people enjoying it most seemed to be Comic-Con type Potter fans. Every time any character, no matter how minor, is mentioned, hoops and whoops and cheers go up. When the bad fate of a character is mentioned, gasp and groans of loss erupt.
I loved the Potter books and the movies. I found the stage adaptation to be 6 hours of my life that I can't get back.
And the riff on the characters who morph before your eyes into other characters was much more fun as spoofed in MY AND MY GIRL at Encores. |
