'Cursed Muggles!', Nunn Says No 'HARRY POTTER' Musical Anytime Soon

UK's The Telegraph is reporting that Trevor Nunn discussed the potential for a Harry Potter musical and the fact that he almost had the rights for such a project, but the timing wasn't right...

Nunn presented a South Bank Show lifetime achievement award to Sir Cameron Mackintosh last week and told the Telegraph that Warner Bros swiped the production rights from under his nose.

"Many many years ago I proposed it and they said: 'Oh if only you had come to us a few weeks ago. We have just sold the movie rights'," he harrumphs. "It will be a long time now before anyone is allowed to stage Harry Potter."

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Trevor Nunn has directed King Lear in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival, Porgy and Bess at the Savoy Theatre and Tom Stoppard's multi award-winning Rock 'n' Roll at the Royal Court and Duke of York's. From 1968 to 1986 he was Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of The National Theatre, directing twenty-one shows including Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia and award-winning revivals of Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. His other more recent theatre productions include Hamlet and Richard II for the Old Vic and The RoyAl Hunt of the Sun at the National, and previously Nicholas Nickleby, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, Chess, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White. His most recent UK work is the current revival of A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Daniel Radcliffe is best known for playing the title role in all five of the "Harry Potter" films to date, and will star again in the sixth, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," due out July 2009. Radcliffe is currently starring on Broadway in EQUUS.

EQUUS also stars Richard Griffiths, with whom Daniel appeared in last year's highly successful production of the play in London's West End and in the Harry Potter films as well.

EQUUS is Peter Shaffer's play about a boy with a secret and the surprising things that happen when a beautiful young girl brings that secret to light. After the mild-mannered stable boy Alan Strang (played by Daniel Radcliffe) has committed a serious crime, the court-appointed psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Griffiths) is charged with revealing the mysteries behind the boy's behavior while confronting his own self-doubt in his marriage, his profession and his life.

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi

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