REVIEW: VOGUE MAGAZINE JUN: Gold Standard by Hadley Freeman.
Sure enough, Sonia Friedman is recognized in London and New York as an accomplished producer both on and off Broadway. She has her own company and she is respected and hailed has the most powerful person in British theater. One of the plays she has in production at the moment is an adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, starring Reed Birney, Tom Sturridge, and Olivia Wilde. She also has a two-part show of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is planned for Broadway in 2018. It’s about the adult Harry “struggling” with fatherhood.
Friedman has been called J.K. Rowling’s “evil twin” because they share a striking resemblance. Not only do they look alike, but they understand the play because lived it themselves, having grown up estranged from their own fathers. It didn’t take much to persuade Rowling to go forth with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The duo thought Harry would be the perfect character to answer the question: Do great men make good fathers? There have been attempts at Harry Potter plays, but it seems only Sonia Friedman was able to pull off a successful production.
It’s no wonder she was recently nominated for 31 Oliviers (the British equivalent of the Tony awards), and won eleven, nine which went to Harry Potter. She is respected in her field as a producer, writer, and a woman. Hopefully this is only the beginning of a long and prosperous career.
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