Haha I would love to see HP on stage

i think you could potentially take the first book and turn it into a play; that would be ok. cos the story stands on its own — it has a nice beginning, middle, and conclusive-enough end. that could have been ok.

(but just, i think, the first book!)

I think if anyone could have done it, Trevor Nunn could have.

I realllllyy don’t think that is a good idea

A play, maybe – like alan said – of the first book only. But I think it would have been very difficult to pull it off and not make it look silly or cheesy. And I think the people that wanted to do a musical Harry Potter should be locked away somewhere so they don’t further hurt themselves. I still shudder at the thought of HP singing and dancing around the stage.

Pat

I could see a play in the distant future…once HP is an iconic thing of the past. Right now we’re still too in the middle of it and it would just feel wrong. The play would be another medium to enjoy the story and provide nice nostalgia for the series. I think if a book like Wicked can survive a musical adaptation, Harry also has a chance…but they would have to be very creative and careful. It’s just something I don’t really want to see right now but maybe eventually.

Wowowowo, hold your horses, Harry Potter is a fantastic book which have been read by millions, making a film version of these books is great, but a musical, who ever thought of that idea, personally, I think it wouldn’t work.
I would rather let Warner Bros. make The Tales of Beedle the Bard movie, that would be great to watch, not a MUSICAL.
Well, there you have it, a opinion from the President of United States of America

No, no, no not theater.
TV!
A long beautiful TV series to Canon! Masterpiece theater
style with a host and everything.

@ Barack Obama: true, but are u REALLY Obama??

If anyone is a fan of the series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” they did a take on this, kind of poking fun at themselves (a clever episode recap before the show finale). I have a feeling that a Harry Potter play would look a lot like that .

And I don’t believe that that is really Barack Obama or it would have said “sent from my Blackberry” in the sig.

I actually think it could make a very good stage musical, and I think Nunn hit the nail right on the head when he said that you should stay away from spectacle. If you focused on the emotions and the themes you’d have many opportunities to make the characters sing, and you wouldn’t drown out the beautiful story with flashy special effects. Personally, thinking of a Dumbledore ballad singing about the power of love makes me smile and I think it could be very chilling.

Imagine Harry, Hagrid and a bunch of random wizards at diagon alley singing a song called ‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’.

The most evil wizard of all
what’s his name
what’s his name
Vold—
Shh!
He who must not be named!

LOLOL OK I’ll stop now, I swear. But man, would it be hilarious!

theres only one problem with a stage production, the magic, how would you really represent all the vivid descriptions of spells and creatures jo puts in the books, bad idea, it would be cheese of the highest caliber.

To Saturn,
To answer your question, yes, I am REALLY Barack Obama.
God bless America.
Thank you.

That would have been great!
but mabye not a musical, I would have to agree with dan on that one
My elementry school did a harry potter play. I wonder if they made it themselves or got it from someone else
but it was an elementry school production, so it was nothing special