Harry Potter and the Cursed Child musical has reached a magical milestone, notching up 1000 performances.
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It's a rare feat for theatre in Australia with only a handful of iconic shows running that long, including the musicals Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, and Jersey Boys.
Wednesday's matinee performance will mark the 1000th time the show has been staged at Melbourne's Princess Theatre, with audience members receiving free programs and chocolate frogs.
"This is an extraordinary achievement, and we are so proud that theatre-goers are embracing the magic and story-telling in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," the show's Australian producer Michael Cassel said in a statement.
The production claims to have broken the record for the most tickets sold for any stage play in Australia earlier in the year, with a million tickets sold.
More than half of the estimated 326,500 people who saw the show in its first year had never been to the theatre before, those behind the production said.
The 168-year-old Princess Theatre underwent a $6.5 million renovation for the Cursed Child in 2018, and the play was later cut down from a two-part production to a single show launched earlier in 2022.
The Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter collection and the first to be written as a script rather than a novel.
Australian Associated Press
