Actors, comedians, and directors dominate the nearest audiences for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — not other theatrical productions or movie franchises.
The shape here is broad: the top 10 neighbors span a wide range of similarity scores (0.72 down to 0.64) with no single entity pulling far ahead of the rest. George R.R. Martin leads at 0.72, the only author in the top 10, followed by actors Anthony Hopkins (0.68) and David Harbour (0.66). Rian Johnson (0.67), a director, sits between them. Netflix Is A Joke (0.68) is the top TV show in the set. The remaining top-10 slots go to Teddy Fresh (0.65, fashion), Mara Wilson (0.65, actor), Edgar Wright (0.65, author), Wicked the Musical (0.65, musical), and Birchbox (0.64, beauty). That's five actors or directors, two authors, one TV show, one musical, and one fashion/beauty brand — a genuinely mixed composition with no subcategory commanding a majority.
Notably, Wicked the Musical is the only other theatrical production in the top 10, and no other Movie Franchise subcategory appears there. The audience shape is defined less by genre affinity than by a cross-category mix of prestige entertainment figures and culturally engaged consumers.
The broad shape signals an audience that doesn't cluster tightly around any single kind of entity — it overlaps widely across film, television, comedy, and literary spaces simultaneously.