SnitchSeeker.com - 'Cursed Child' plays celebrate rehearsal anniversary as Broadway auditions underway

The London production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child marked its first anniversary since rehearsals began, on this Wednesday - the same day as preliminary auditions for the Broadway run are finishing up in New York City.

The cast and crew got together this week to take a celebratory photo together at the Palace Theatre in London, compared to the group shot released last year with all involved, including author J.K. Rowling, director John Tiffany, and playwright Jack Thorne.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Company and Producers of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CursedChild?src=hash">#CursedChild</a> celebrate a year since rehearsals began! <a href="https://t.co/kgfHZ4pinZ">pic.twitter.com/kgfHZ4pinZ</a></p>— Harry Potter Play (@HPPlayLDN) <a href="https://twitter.com/HPPlayLDN/status/834455426125152256">February 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Regarding the Broadway auditions (which finish this evening at the Pearl Studio in Manhattan), there's still time to try out until 6pm EST this Wednesday, especially for those aspiring actors who are part of the Equity actors' union.

Two SnitchSeeker readers headed to the auditions this week (neither Equity members, who got priority audition chances), and noted that those who were non-union currently have to wait to be called to come in and actually audition. There is no guarantee that non-union entries may receive an audition at all.

Actors on an audition forum also commented on this week's Cursed Child auditions, confirming that non-union actors have a much lesser chance to get auditions, and the various roles that are being tried out:

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[Audition team] DO want a British dialect.

McGonagall is asked to read in Scottish. Even if you don't want to read for McGonagall and just as Petunia, they want you to read in Scottish dialect.

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For Delphi sides [audition script], it's the scene where we first meet her in the book. Ontop of the staircase with Albus. It starts with her saying "Hi" and ends with her line about St. Oswalds.

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Scorpius and Albus reads the same side
As for others, i remember there are sides for Ron, Hermione, Harry, young Harry, Draco, Ginny, Hagrid, Dumbledore, Rose, Lily, McG, Delphi, and Amos. Not sure about others.

It should be of note that Tiffany said that if the original London lead actors, including Jamie Parker (Harry), Paul Thornley (Ron), and Noma Dumezweni (Hermione), wanted to head to Broadway, they would get first dibs on reprising the roles on stage.