JK Rowling reveals how Harry Potter came on stage

"People did not stop saying that I would like to do something with Harry Potter for the stage, "she said. It was usually a musical and I do not like musicals. And since I had never really heard an interesting idea, I thought she probably would never be on stage.

"I've always been pretty resistant, if I'm honest, I've had playful proposals – Harry Potter on ice, Harry Potter's light operetta, you think I'm laughing?" call, I heard it. "

Rowling, who is the richest author in the world, despite a sizeable share of his fortune devoted to charity and other causes, also revealed that the stakes were really important when She decided to proceed with the adaptation on stage.

"Just to be quite real about it, we knew people would wait for our failure," Rowling said. "Was it a cynical exercise? [series] had been so popular, how could a play fit the phenomenon that Potter became? It was scary to be at the heart of that.

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"[But] there is something about live theater that you can not reproduce in any other form of art. The audience was amazing. There were a thousand people – or whatever number we had – who were completely obsessed with the ritual before them. Something huge and emotional to everyone, including me.

"We were all united in this experience and it was remarkable."

The Australian version of Harry Potter and the cursed child is about to play Bellyof Gyton Grantley as Ron Weasley, All saints actress Paula Arundell in the role of Hermione Granger and New Zealand actor Gareth Reeves in the role of Harry Potter. It will open at the Princess Theater in Melbourne in January.