While on tour in Los Angeles, Aidan Close and his agent took the opportunity to meet and talk with a casting director. Within the 15 minutes it took him to get home from the meeting, he got an email from his agent. Close, a Boston University alum who at the time was playing Scorpius Malfoy in the North American tour of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” was offered the chance to continue playing Scorpius on Broadway.