Friday, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tickets went on sale to the general public – as in everyone who forgot to click the confirmation link to be eligible for priority booking. Producers are releasing further booking periods to cope with the unprecedented demand for this production.
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Fans from all over the world have been trying to get tickets online for the 8th instalment of Harry Potter.
Billed as the “eighth Harry Potter story and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage”, the two-part play makes its world premiere at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End next summer. Although plot details are being kept under wraps, the award-winning author revealed that the play will tell “an untold part of Harry’s story”.
It will focus on Harry as an adult and his son Albus Serverus, beginning where Rowling’s books ended – 19 years after his epic battle with Lord Voldemort.
After selling out tickets for the first booking period from 7 June to 18 September producers quickly extended the season to January 2017, but this didn’t stop fans complaining about long online waiting times and glitches, reports the BBC.
Now an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic with three school-age children, Harry “grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs”, a statement about the new play said.
Fans were given the chance to register for priority booking, and judging by the sold-out block of tickets for the show’s first four months, beginning in June 2016, they took the opportunity very, very seriously.
However, the Twitter account for the play warned that those with re-sold tickets would be denied entry.
With the recent announcement from JK Rowling that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a play for those of you out of the loop, will be a canon continuation of the Harry Potter series from where it left off after Deathly Hallows, many Potter fans who’ve been eagerly awaiting more stories about their favourite wizard are finally getting what they want. “Never been so stressed buying tickets before #CursedChild”.
So how do you get them?
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Preview prices are £20, £50, £80 or £100 for a seat for both Part One and Part Two of the play, or £10, £25, £40 or £50 if bought separately. The two parts are created to either be watched in one day (i.e. a matinée followed by an evening performance) or on two consecutive days.
