Independent Arts News Reporting Potted Potter Comedic Harry Potter Rendition Coming to Penn Live Arts
Reported on Monday, December 23, 2024.
Pictured Above: The cast of Potted Potter. Photo Credit: Contributed.
NEWSROOM POST: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Philadelphia welcomes the critically acclaimed comedic rendition of all seven Harry Potter books in 70 hilarious minutes
Philadelphia, PA – Starvox Touring and Potted Productions announced that after several successful North American tours and over 1,000 performances in Las Vegas, London’s West End hit Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and Jeff will spend this holiday season in Philadelphia! Created by two-time Olivier Award–nominated BBC Television actors Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner and seen by over 1,000,000 Potter fans around the world, the show will cast a spell over Penn Live Arts across 20 holiday season performances from Thursday, December 26 through Sunday, January 5. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at pennlivearts.org.
Selling out to crowds around the world, Potted Potter will have you flying off your seat (or broomstick) with laughter. The perfect show for muggles, witches and wizards of all ages, this production of the boy-who-lived’s story combines all seven books into 70 hilarious minutes. The cleverly curated show includes all your favorite characters, perfect Potter props, and even a live Quidditch match! Even if you don’t know the difference between a horcrux and a Hufflepuff, Potted Potter will make you roar with laughter.
Starvox Touring and Potted Productions first introduced the fabulously funny show to North American audiences in Toronto in 2012, where it received rave reviews. Over the past several years the show has completed multiple tours, delighting crowds with its clever wit. Potted Potter has left audiences feeling positively nostalgic and has sold out theatres across the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Dubai, and Canada. Whether you’re team Gryffindor or don’t know the difference between a Death Eater and Dumbledore, this show is a seriously good time.
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Pictured Above: Potted Potter promotional graphic. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Potted Productions (Producer)
The company was founded in 2006 by James Seabright to produce the work of Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner. Since then, it has produced Potted Potter in the UK, Australasia and North America, including two West End and two off-Broadway seasons. It has also commissioned and produced the new shows Potted Pirates (Edinburgh, UK tours), Potted Panto (Edinburgh, Vaudeville, London, and UK tour; Olivier Award Nomination for Best Entertainment 2011) and Potted Sherlock.
Seabright Live
The company is led by James Seabright, an Olivier Award winning commercial theatrical producer and general manager based in London. Current productions include the musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical by Alexander S. Bermange (Gilded Balloon/Wilton’s), the world tour and Las Vegas residency of Potted Potter by Dan and Jeff, UK tours of Black Is The Color Of My Voice by Apphia Campbell, the immersive Trainspotting Live, Clownfish’s Attenborough and his Animals, Buffy Revamped by Brendan Murphy, the debut world tour of Yippee Ki Yay by Richard Marsh and acclaimed new musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Richard Hough and Ben Morales Frost, which premiered as a digital show in 2021 and can now be seen globally via BroadwayHD. Previous London productions include Adam Kay’s This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (Garrick, Apollo, Vaudeville, Palace, Duchess, Lyric and Hammersmith Apollo), Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Ambassadors, Apollo, Criterion and Lyric), Loot by Joe Orton (Park and Watermill), The Boys in The Band by Mart Crowley (Park and Vaudeville), Our Boys by Jonathan Lewis (Duchess), The Lion by Benjamin Scheuer (St James), Eric and Little Ern (Vaudeville), and several seasons of Potted Panto and Potted Sherlock with Dan and Jeff. James chairs the boards of the League of Independent Producers and the King’s Head Theatre and is an associate artist of Wilton’s Music Hall. His first book, So You Want to Be a Theatre Producer, is published by Nick Hern Books. www.seabright.org.
Starvox Entertainment
Starvox Touring, founded in 2005 by Corey Ross, produces unique live theatre properties, including: the hugely successful “Wow Variety Spectacular,” currently in residence at Caesars Entertainment’s Rio Casino, the record-breaking “Evil Dead: The Musical,” successful touring West-End hit Harry Potter parody Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience, Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical, and many others. Starvox founder Corey Ross is a co-producer on the globally acclaimed The Art of Banksy, the world renowned Immersive Van Gogh, and Immersive Disney Animation. Starvox Touring’s innovative approach to audience engagement takes live entertainment to a whole new level.
Pictured Above: The cast of Potted Potter. Photo Credit: Contributed.
