"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" getting Broadway treatment

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is getting a Broadway treatment. As AceShowbiz reports citing New York Post, the new take on the two-part West End stage play, which also serves as the eighth story of the "Harry Potter" novel and movie series, is expected to premiere at Broadway Lyric Theater in the spring of 2018.

The show's producers, Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, are in advanced talks with Ambassador Theatre Group to have the Lyric Theatre play host to the multi-million dollar show. The theater will undergo extensive renovations after the current tenant, Cirque du Soleil's "Paramour", moves out in April next year.

The Lyric has 1.900 seats, as it's the second-largest theater on Broadway. To make the theater "more intimate" for "Harry Potter", the producers will reduce the seats to an estimated 1.500 so that audiences can watch the show closer to the stage.

"They're essentially creating a new theater within the old theater," Callender said. Of bringing "The Cursed Child" to Broadway, author J.K. Rowling said in a statement, "I'm delighted we are one step closer in bringing 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' to Broadway and very excited by the proposed plans."

The cast and exact date for the upcoming show have yet to be announced, but the two-part play, which was premiered in London on July 30, stars Jamie Parker, Noma Dumezweni and Paul Thornley as Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley respectively.