Tom Felton Recreates Draco Malfoy Line in Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one’

It was pure magic on Broadway on Tuesday, Nov. 11 as Tom Felton formally made his debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one.

Twenty years after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone first hit theaters, the actor proved he nonetheless is aware of precisely find out how to solid a spell as he stepped onto the stage of New York Metropolis’s Lyric Theatre and again into the footwear of Draco Malfoy, the sneering Slytherin he performed in all eight movies.

ipromiseyoumedia was there for the milestone second within the packed viewers that included loads of lifelong Potter followers, all dressed as their favourite characters from J.Ok. Rowling’s Wizarding World.

The Tony Award-winning play — penned by Jack Thorne because the eighth story within the Harry Potter collection with assist from Rowling and the manufacturing’s director, John Tiffany — picks up 19 years after the motion in Deathly Hallows and follows the subsequent era of wizards as they navigate the newest Hogwarts’ thriller.

Returning to the function that made him a family title, Felton was met with thunderous applause throughout his entrance. However the crowd really erupted when he recreated certainly one of Draco’s most memorable film moments, elevating his wand over his face and delivering that line with a realizing grin: “Scared, Potter?”

After all, this was greater than a nostalgic wink to his Harry Potter days, it was an opportunity for Felton to revisit the character that outlined his youth and discover him from a wholly new perspective.

As a grown-up Draco — older, wiser and nonetheless shadowed by the alternatives of his youth — Felton leaned into the quieter complexities of a father nonetheless studying find out how to transfer past his household’s darkish legacy. In doing so, he discovered new layers of coronary heart and humanity within the onetime Hogwarts bully, with a efficiency that carried the load of redemption with a touch of reckoning.

By curtain name, the emotion of the evening clearly caught up with Felton. His eyes have been glistening as he took his closing bow, visibly moved by the roaring standing ovation that met him and the remainder of Cursed Little one’s newly launched Yr 7 firm.

This marks Felton’s first time enjoying Draco for the reason that closing Harry Potter film wrapped in 2011, and his first time ever being on Broadway. It is also the primary time an actor from the movie has appeared within the hit stage present.

“I hold pondering I’m dreaming,” Felton informed ipromiseyoumedia again in June, on the crimson carpet on the 2025 Tony Awards, including that he is a “large fan of the present” and has seen it “a dozen occasions, almost in England and some occasions now on Broadway.”

“I simply by no means noticed myself having blonde hair once more and reprising that function,” he admitted. “Now as a dad, Draco has a son. So sure, it’s an outdated character, however in a really new set of circumstances. I am excited to discover it.”

The actor added that his former costar Daniel Radcliffe, a Tony Award winner and longtime Broadway vet, has been giving him recommendation forward of his debut.

“My old-fashioned chum, Potter, [Daniel] Radcliffe, has finished fairly a little bit of Broadway, so he is holding my hand and positively serving to me via all of the issues which might be laborious to be taught,” Felton mentioned. “However from what I collect, it is a tremendous group of individuals. The followers are actually, actually gracious and excited. So I am simply thrilled to be a part of it.”

Felton’s restricted 26-week engagement in Cursed Little one is at present scheduled via Could 10, 2026.

Becoming a member of Felton on stage is John Skelley, Emmet Smith, Aidan Shut and Trish Lindstrom, who be a part of the Broadway firm as Harry Potter, Albus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy and Ginny Potter, respectively, after originating these roles within the North American touring manufacturing. Different solid members embody Rachel Christopher as Hermione Granger, Daniel Fredrick as Ron Weasley, Janae Hammond as Rose Granger-Weasley, Kristen Martin as Delphi Diggory.

The corporate consists of Chadd Alexander, John Alix, Logan Becker, Darby Breedlove, Megan Byrne, James Cribbins, Ted Deasy, Gary-Kayi Fletcher, Dani Goldberg, Alexis Gordon, Caleb Hafen, Logan James Corridor, Probability Marshaun Hill, Jay Mack, Samaria Nixon-Fleming, Bradley Patchett, Alexandra Peter, Dan Plehal, Allie Re, Gabrielle Reid, Isaac Phaman Reynolds, Kiaya Scott, Maren Searle, Stephen Spinella, Tom Stephens. Khadija Tariyan, Baylen Thomas, Julius Williams and Riley Thad Younger.

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one is essentially the most profitable non-musical play on Broadway ever with over $430 million whole gross sales and over 3.5 million tickets offered (a distinction that landed it within the Guinness World Data). It is the third longest operating play in Broadway historical past, too.

Tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one at the moment are on sale.