Felton makes his Broadway debut this November for a limited engagement, playing a grown-up Draco, through March.
Tom Felton, who rose to fame as Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, is reprising his role as the boy wizard’s blond archnemesis on Broadway, for a limited engagement beginning in November.
He will be making his Broadway debut with his turn in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” — his first return to the character in 15 years — and will be in the show through March, according to a news release.
Felton said in a statement on Thursday that being part of the “Harry Potter” films had been one of the greatest honors of his life.
“Joining this production will be a full-circle moment for me, because when I begin performances in ‘Cursed Child’ this fall, I’ll also be the exact age Draco is in the play,” he said. “It’s surreal to be stepping back into his shoes — and of course his iconic platinum blond hair — and I am thrilled to be able to see his story through and to share it with the greatest fan community in the world.”
The Broadway show takes place 19 years after the original series ended. Draco is now a father, and he — along with Harry, Ron, and Hermione — sends his child to Hogwarts.
Alexis Soloski wrote in a 2021 review for The New York Times that after the Covid pandemic forced the show to close, it returned with a shorter, streamlined story. The play, she wrote, remained “diamond-sharp in its staging and dazzling in its visual imagination, as magical as any spell or potion.”
Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, the producers for the show, said in a joint statement that Draco left an indelible impression on Harry Potter fans around the world and that Felton’s return to the franchise would offer Potterheads a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see him again. “This moment is powerful on many levels,” they said, adding that the moment was charged with nostalgia, evolution and emotion. “Tom’s return to Hogwarts bridges generations of fans and breathes new life into a beloved story.”
Since appearing in the “Harry Potter” films, Felton has acted in the movies “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and “A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting.”
In 2022, he released a memoir, “Beyond the Wand” and made his West End debut that year, as the star of “2:22 A Ghost Story.”
Source: Theater - nytimes.com
