Demand for tickets led to technical difficulties with the online system, including the site freezing and locking customers out of their purchases, which meant many disappointed fans who had waited up to three hours in the queue could not complete their transactions.
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Cheaper priced tickets sold out within the first hour, leaving younger fans unable to afford the £130 price tag for top tier seats.
Already – with painful inevitability – there are two tickets on sale online for a disgusting £900, from someone who definitely deserves all of the Unforgivable Curses.
Originally, these later tickets were to be reserved for the public booking that opens on Friday.
Following the announcement that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was not a prequel but a sequel to the iconic book series, thousands of fans rushed to purchase tickets as soon as they went on sale Wednesday.
It will receive its premiere at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End next summer, with the t wo parts created to be viewed on one day or on two consecutive evenings. Or you can log on, on October 30 when an additional block of tickets go on sale. Details of where and how to obtain these tickets will be announced at a later date.
Previews will begin June 7 2016 with the opening performances on July 30 2016.
Her stance is centered on a scene in which Snape asks for Dumbledore to meet him at a hilltop in the sixth book, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.’ It then became a question as to why this wise yet frail wizard willingly took such risk, when Snape could easily kill him. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: “sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places”.
John Tiffany will direct, with movement by Steven Hoggett, set designs by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, special effects by Jeremy Chernick, illusions by Jamie Harrison and musical supervision by Martin Lowe.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is being produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions.
