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WIZARD MAGIC
JK Rowling
hopes Harry
Potter play
goes global
By JILL LAWLESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON (AP) — London is
under Harry Potter’s spell
once more — and J.K. Rowl-
ing hopes the rest of the world
will eventually follow.
The stage play “Harry
Potter and the Cursed Child”
had its gala opening July 30
in London’s West End and is
already the theater event of
the year.
Rowling joined director
John Tiffany, playwright Jack
Thorne and the cast onstage
to receive a raucous standing
ovation at the end of the two-
part show at London’s Palace
Theatre, where it’s scheduled
to run until December 2017.
If the boy wizard’s creator
has her way, that will only be
the beginning.
“I’d like as many Potter
fans to see it as possible,”
Rowling said on the red car-
pet before the show, as fans
cheered and poked camera
phones over crowd barriers in
hope of getting a picture.
There’s already talk of a
Broadway run, and Rowling
said: “I’d like it to go wider
than that.”
Co-producer Sonia Fried-
man said she had big hopes for
the show, which has been more
than two years in the making.
“Hopefully many countries
at some point will get to see
it,” Friedman said. “But it’s a
big piece of theater, it’s a big
endeavor. You can’t just turn
this around overnight.”
The play has been in pre-
views at the theater for almost
eight weeks, but few details
of the plot have leaked
(though those seeking spoil-
PHOTO BY JOEL RYAN/INVISION/AP
Writer J.K. Rowling at the gala
performance of “Harry Potter
and the Cursed Child” at the
Palace Theatre in central Lon-
don on July 30.
ers online will fi nd them).
People leaving the show
are handed buttons urging
them to #keepthesecrets —
and most have complied.
Tiffany said spilling the
play’s secrets was “like
unwrapping children’s
Christmas presents for them
in November, in front of their
eyes. And why would anyone
want to do that?”
Rowling said fans have
been amazing. “It is the most
extraordinary fandom, so I’m
kind of not surprised, because
they didn’t want to spoil it for
each other.”
The script of the play
was published July 31, with
a global print run in the
millions, so future audiences
will have more opportunities
to know the plot in advance if
they choose.
Without entering spoiler
territory, it’s safe to say that
the play has much to make
fans rejoice. This is both an
eighth installment in the Pot-
ter saga worthy of Rowling’s
seven novels, and a stage
spectacle to delight even the
uninitiated.
The script — written
by Thorne from a story by
Rowling, Thorne and Tiffany
— picks up 19 years after the
fi nal novel, “Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows.”
Harry — the orphaned boy
whose destiny was to save the
wizarding world — is now
an overworked civil servant
at the Ministry of Magic,
feeling the approach of
middle age. His younger son,
Albus Severus, is a reluctant
pupil at Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry,
struggling with the burden of
his family’s fame.
Fans who know the saga
inside out are likely to appre-
ciate the teeming detail of the
play, which runs for fi ve hours
in two parts. It captures Rowl-
ing’s richly textured magical
world, with its byzantine my-
thology, complex history and
array of fantastical creatures.
The plot is a rollicking
adventure in which Albus’
attempt to right a wrong goes
awry. It also has adult things
to say about loss and grief,
and about the complexities of
friendship and family love.
The cast is anchored by
the adult trio of Jamie Parker
as Harry, Noma Dumezwe-
ni as Hermione Granger
and Paul Thornley as Ron
Weasley. There’s also a
touching performance from
Sam Clemmett as Albus, and
an engaging, career-making
turn from Anthony Boyle as
Scorpius Malfoy, the surpris-
ing son of Harry’s childhood
enemy Draco Malfoy.
The actors draw laugh-
ter and tears from audience
members. But it’s the work
of the production crew that
elicits gasps, with illusions
that appear simultaneously
simple and inexplicable.
Characters levitate, transform
and disappear, in magic that
feels hand-crafted rather than
high-tech.
The show captures the
warm spirit of the world Rowl-
ing has created — one that has
moved from page to screen to
stage with its magic intact.
NW
word
nerd
Coho [ko•ho]
By RYAN HUME
noun
1. Oncorhynchus kisutch: a
relatively small species of Pacific
salmon, identifiable by the dark
spots on their backs and their
light pink flesh. Available on
both sides of the Pacific, Coho
usually spend three to five years
in the ocean where they are
known to have silver sides and
dark blue backs. When mature
and returning to spawn, they
develop blushing red sides and
a hooked nose called a kype.
Since the 1970s, Coho have
become an extremely popular
game fish. Bank fishermen love
them as the salmon traverse
many of the smaller coastal
streams between Alaska and
Monterey County, California,
and they tend to spawn in shal-
lows. The silver salmon is also
popular in Japan and Russia
and has been introduced to
many landlocked reservoirs as
well as the Great Lakes.
Coho are also known as blue
jacks, hooknose and silvers.
2. CoHo Chaters & Motel: a
fourth-generation, family-run
fishing charter fleet and dock-
side motel located in Ilwaco,
Washington, since 1956. CoHo
operates a fleet of five vessels
and specializes in salmon and
sturgeon tours.
Origin:
First recorded use is in 1869
as cohose, though this spelling
was later reinterpreted as a
plural and the current spelling
was adopted. Originally from
the Halkomelem Stó:lō, an Up-
river language from mainland
southwest British Columbia
within the Coast Salishan
language family. The Stó:lō
word from which coho is taken,
k ̓ ʷə́xʷəθ, possibly means either
“bent nose” or “silver salmon”
— the information available is
FILE PHOTO
Jared Hawthorne shows off a 16-pound coho caught during a
2014 Buoy 10 fi shing trip.
truly scarce. Though if the latter
is true, that would mean that
saying coho salmon is really
saying silver salmon salmon.
The kisutch in the spe-
cies’ binomial or Latin name
entered the annals of science
by way of the common Russian
name for the fi sh, кижуч.
Currently, both coho and co-
hos are accepted as plural forms.
“A monster fall chinook run of
951,200 is forecast to enter the Columbia
River in 2016, but a relatively weak coho
return of 380,600.
Often at Buoy 10 in August anglers
catch and keep a chinook, then catch and
release additional chinook trying to get a
coho to complete their limit….
This fall is shaping up to be a big year
for chinook and a poor one for coho, said
Ron Roler, Columbia River policy coordi-
nator for the Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife. The early-returning
(August-September) stock of Columbia
River coho, important at Buoy 10, is
forecast to number only 153,800.”
— Al Thomas, “One-fi sh limit mulled for
Buoy 10 season,” The Columbian, March 10, 2016
“The fi shermen demand $150 for the
run, and these prices for the respective
classes of fi sh: Twenty cents for each king
salmon weighing over 15 pounds; four
cents for each red or coho.”
—“Alaska Packers Firm,” The Morning
Oregonian, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1918, P. 5
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