Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Parts One and Two) 
The Book of Mormon 
Jerusalem 
A Hollywood director unexpectedly pops into an English regional theater to see a show. The actors get wind of his presence, thereby unleashing a chaotic, show-stealing performance of one-upmanship. That was Ken Russell’s framing device when he famously turned Sandy Wilson’s sweet but archaic musical comedy “The Boy Friend” into a fitfully inspired, often wildly self-indulgent 1971 MGM movie musical. It’s also the plot of the new West End play “The Comeback" -- but the similarities end there between Russell’s...
Sonia Friedman Productions
Sonia
Friedman
Producer
At the start of 2020, Friedman had 18 productions around the world — including multiple stagings of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and “The Book of Mormon,” Tom Stoppard’s new play “Leopoldstadt” in London and Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” on Broadway — as well as 10 in active development. That all came to a screeching halt with the pandemic shutdown in March. Making the best of a bad situation, she reassembled the cast of her revival of “Uncle Vanya” to make a filmed version for BBC Four and announced a socially distanced production of new comedy “The Comeback” to play the West End over Christmas. She also lobbied the U.K. government to secure a £1.57 billion emergency support package for the arts.
