“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” Toronto Will Close in July

by · April 17, 2023

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has bought magic to witches and wizards from across Canada since opening at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto last year. However, the production will become the third of the seven versions to end when it closes its doors for the final time on July 2.

 

 

The show had a record-breaking run in Toronto, including having the highest weekly gross for a non-musical play in Canadian theater history. It made an estimated $750 million dollars for the City of Toronto during its time as the longest-running professional non-musical play in Canada.

Canadian producer David Mirvish shared his delight at how the production cast a spell over Canadian audiences to bring the industry back after the pandemic, while producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender described the Canadian production as “an extraordinary achievement.” Friedman and Callender also thanked all the cast and crew for their work on the show.

Having our production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre has been such a joy and we look forward to an amazing final 11 weeks in Canada.

This announcement comes during a time of questioning for Cursed Child as a whole, with the production in San Francisco, California, having closed in September and the production in Melbourne, Australia, also closing this July. Tickets for the production in Toronto are currently available until the closing date of July 2. Are you hoping to experience the magic one more time?

Press Release
 

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
WILL END JULY 2 AT THE CAA ED MIRVISH THEATRE

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will end its record-breaking run at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto on July 2, 2023. At a run of 13 months and more than 425 performances, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will set a record for the longest-running professional play in Canadian history.

The production will have been seen by over 600,000 audience members, with over 50% of the audience made up of first-time theatre attendees. The economic impact for the City of Toronto is estimated to be $750 million.

The production welcomed people from every province and territory in Canada as well as visitors from China, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Mexico and many others to the historic CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre, following a $5 million renovation.

In December 2022, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child broke a Canadian box office record for the week of December 26 to 31, playing to 100 percent capacity and pulling in $1,984,046 in sales – the highest weekly gross for a non-musical play in Canadian theatre history.

“We are delighted with all that this production has achieved,” said producer David Mirvish. “Single-handedly, it helped us relaunch large[-]scale theatre in Toronto after the devastation the Covid-19 pandemic wrought.

“After being shuttered for two years, we wanted to play an important role in reviving Toronto’s theatre and downtown – its restaurants, hotels, shops and service industries. The big question was: would audiences return? It was Harry Potter and the Cursed Child that definitively answered this question.

“The artistry, spectacle, scale and broad appeal of the production brought not just traditional theatregoers back, but it also attracted scores of new audiences.

“I am truly privileged to have had three partners who believed in us. Without Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, the play’s originating producers, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child would not have been produced here. To them, I, the hundreds of people who have worked on the production in Toronto and the hundreds of thousands of audience members who attended owe a large debt of gratitude.”

“We are extremely proud of our Toronto production, and to be the longest-running professional play in the history of Canada is an extraordinary achievement,” [p]roducers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said. “Having our production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre has been such a joy, and we look forward to an amazing final 11 weeks in Canada.

“Toronto has such a rich culture of arts and theatre, and we are proud to be a part of it and want to thank the audiences here for embracing our extraordinary show,” Friedman and Callender continued. “We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our cast, stage management, crew, and creative team, all associates and especially David Mirvish and his dedicated team for getting us to this incredible milestone and coming on this journey with us.”

Neave Williamson

I've been a proud Slytherin for as long as I can remember, and love taking inspiration from the Wizarding World for short films.