Some Felix Felicis must be at work, because it's looking more and more likely that the Harry Potter play currently at London's Palace Theatre will apparate onto a Broadway stage in 2018.
The producers of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," an award-winning play that tells the story of an older Harry Potter and his son, Albus, are in talks to open the show in New York's Lyric Theater in the spring of 2018, Pottermore reported.
Sonia Friedman and Colin Callendar hinted that they had the Great White Way in their sights back in August, when the production opened to glowing reviews and the script was released as a book.
They are now in the final stages of discussions with the Ambassador Theatre Group, which is planning to remodel the Lyric Theater from a 1,900-seat venue to a more intimate 1,500-seat space with input from the show's designer, Christine Jones, and director, John Tiffany.
The front of the house at the Lyric Theater will also be redesigned for the play written by Jack Thorne and based on a story by J.K. Rowling, Thorne and Tiffany.
"We are still subject to planning, but assuming we get the go ahead, we will have the theatre of our dreams that will be intimate enough for a drama, yet big enough for us to follow in the footsteps of the London production and continue to provide low priced tickets throughout the auditorium," Friedman told Pottermore.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has been a huge success in London, where a block of 60,000 tickets released last last month sold out in about an hour. If the play does as well across the pond, it may give "Hamilton" a run for its money.
