Harry Potter magic hits Broadway

London

JOANNE Kathleen Rowling looked slightly tense. She had just completed a television segment, alongside her collaborators on Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, the eighth - and the only theatrical - installment in her celebrated wizarding saga, which begins previews on March 16 at the Lyric Theater on Broadway.

Rowling is famously private. And crazily famous. Her Harry Potter novels have sold over 450 million copies since the first was published in 1997, spawning an empire that now encompasses movies, the spinoff Fantastic Beasts films, Harry Potter Wizarding World theme parks, and detective novels (written under a pseudonym) that have been made into a TV series.