The book form of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be released globally at 11.01am on Sunday, New Zealand time.
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“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” Release Day: Noon – 5 p.m., Kids Ink Children’s Bookstore, 5619 N. Illinois St.
Have your wands at the ready – the boy wizard whose books cast a spell on millennials is back. The store will have a brunch from 10 a.m.to noon.
The two-part play – which is set 19 years after J.K. Rowling’s books and spin-off movies – has its official opening in London’s West End on Saturday (07.30.16) and producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender are working on plans to stage the show in NY.
“We ordered a lot more copies than we normally would for a book like this”, Frankenfield said.
The play officially premieres on two nights (thus the parts one and two) Saturday and Sunday in London’s West End theater district. In the Philippines, the script book will be available exclusively at National Book Store (NBS). That was the same spot occupied by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007.
He continued: “Plays are often read by audiences who have seen a play, they rush out and they want to take something of it away with them, but they’re also read by people who couldn’t get in to see a play”. “If you pre-order the book before the event, you will receive a 10% discount”.
A quarter of a million extra tickets for the new two-part Harry Potter play are to go on sale.
USA bookseller Barnes & Noble, which is also hosting parties, said the Potter books still top their best-selling lists.
The Independent’s Jack Shepherd similarly awarded the play five stars, writing: “It’s quite apparent this isn’t written to be either a book or a tie-in film; it’s a spectacle for the theatre, one that is filled to the brim with fan service and magical imagery that will amaze”.
FYI: To preorder a copy of the book, call Kicks Mix Bookstore at 740-345-9800.
Managing director Matt Applewhite said: “I think it’s going to be the most read play of all time”.
Nielsen BookScan data shows the volume of books sold in New Zealand so far this year is down by 4.4 percent and the value of the books sold is down by 0.9 percent.
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Main Street Books manager Llalan Fowler said she has sensed a different kind of energy around this eighth book than the first seven garnered.
