StreamingPuffs, the Off-Broadway Hit About the Classmates of a Certain Boy Wizard, Now Streaming on PlaybillThe play, captured in 2018, began streaming May 22.
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Dan Meyer
May 19, 2020
The cast of PuffsHunter Canning
Theatre lovers can travel to a Certain School of Magic and Magic with the Playbill Playback stream of Puffs. In addition to the full-length Off-Broadway production, the recording includes exclusive new interviews with the cast and creative team, hosted by Felicia Fitzpatrick. Puffs is available to stream through May 31 at 11:59 PM ET. The stream will not be available to viewers in the U.K.
The stream is $8.99 with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Frontline Foods, which supports local restaurants impacted by shelter-in-place measures, while feeding healthcare workers on the frontlines of the pandemic.
Fans can join a Playbill watch party May 23 at 8 PM ET on Twitter using the hashtag #PlaybillPlayback.
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Created by Matt Cox and directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker, Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School, of Magic and Magic follows the overlooked students of the “Puff” house. While Harry Potter was off battling evil, plenty of budding witches and wizards were just trying to find their place in the world, and now their story is told.
The recording was filmed live Off-Broadway in 2018, with a cast featuring Langston Belton, Madeleine Bundy, Jessie Cannizzaro, Nick Carrillo, A.J. Ditty, Julie Ann Earls, James Fouhey, Andy Miller, Zac Moon, Eleanor Philips, Stephen Stout, Anna Dart, and Jake Keefe. Puffs: Live was originally produced by David Carpenter / Tilted Windmills Theatricals
Serving on the creative team are features set and costume designer Madeleine Bundy, lighting designer Herrick Goldman, and sound designer Matt Cox, with original music composed by Brian Hoes.
Puffs opened July 17, 2017, at New World Stages, having previously started at Peoples Improv Theater in 2015 and a subsequent transfer to the Elektra Theater. The play also premiered in Melbourne, Australia, in May of 2018. The Off-Broadway production closed in NYC August 18, 2019.
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See Photos from Puffs’ Off-Broadway-er Engagement Now Playing at New World Stages
The comedy, written by Matt Cox and directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker, transferred to its current venue July 17 following its run at the Elektra.
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Stephen Stout, Eleanor Philips, Nick Carrillo, James Fouhey, Andy Miller (Behind), Jessie Cannizzaro, Langston Belton, and Zac Moon
Hunter Canning
Nick Carrillo, Jessie Cannizzaro, Madeleine Bundy, Andy Miller, Eleanor Philips, and James Fouhey
Andy Miller, Jessie Cannizzaro, Nick Carrillo, Langston Belton, Madeleine Bundy, Zac Moon, Julie Ann Earls, and Stephen Stout
Andy Miller, Jessie Cannizzaro, Madeleine Bundy, Stephen Stout, Nick Carrillo, and Eleanor Philips
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