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In response to queries regarding the choice of a play rather than a new novel, Rowling stated that she "is confident that when audiences see the play they will agree that it is the only proper medium for the story". On announcing plans for the project, Rowling stated that the play would not be a prequel. The announcement marked the eighteenth anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published on 26 June 1997. On 26 June 2015, this project was officially confirmed under the title of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and it was revealed it would receive its world premiere in mid-2016 at London's Palace Theatre. The following May, Rowling began establishing the creative team for the project. Rowling revealed that the play would "explore the previously untold story of Harry's early years as an orphan and outcast". At the time of the announcement, author J.
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In December 2013, it was revealed that a stage play based on the Harry Potter series had been in development for around a year, with the view to bringing it to the stage sometime in 2016.
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At the 2017 Laurence Olivier Awards, the London production received a record-breaking eleven nominations and won another record-breaking nine awards, including Best New Play. The play received enthusiastic critical reception, although the script was not received well by some of the Harry Potter fandom. The play is marketed as the eighth story in the Harry Potter series. The story begins nineteen years after the events of the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and follows Harry Potter, now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic, and his younger son, Albus Severus Potter, who is about to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its cast is similar to that of the first year in the West End, with returning actors Anthony Boyle, Sam Clemmett, Noma Dumezweni, Poppy Miller, Jamie Parker, Alex Price, and Paul Thornley. The play opened on Broadway on 21 April 2018 at the Lyric Theatre, with previews starting on 16 March 2018. Previews of the play began at the Palace Theatre, London, on 7 June 2016, and it premiered on 30 July 2016. “There’s no doubt about it, this will be our biggest book of the year," Skipper said in a statement.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a 2016 British two-part play written by Jack Thorne based on an original story by J. Kate Skipper, buying director at UK bookstore chain Waterstones, said Cursed Child is already the store’s biggest-selling hardback since Dan Brown’s 2009 thriller The Lost Symbol and that it is expected sales would exceed those of The Lost Symbol by the end of its first week.Ĭursed Child is also expected to match the overall sales of Waterstones’ best-selling script book ever, J.B. UK book industry magazine and website The Bookseller said if the sales rate continued, the script book would “be the second biggest-selling single week for one title since records began, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the first."ĭeathly Hallows sold 1.8 million copies and 780,000 units of the adult edition in the UK in its launch week, it added.īringing back Rowling’s enchanted world of witches and wizards, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child features Potter as a father of three and an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic. UK publisher Little, Brown Book Group said Cursed Child sold 680,000 print copies in the UK in three days.
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Scholastic said it had ordered 4.5 million first printing copies of Cursed Child and retailers had reported “fast-paced, record-breaking pre-sales" ahead of the release date.įull first-week US sales figures of Cursed Child from Nielsen BookScan are not expected until next week. Prior to its release, Barnes & Noble said Cursed Child was the most pre-ordered book since 2007’s Deathly Hallows. Scholastic, the US and Canadian publisher of Cursed Child, said the sales figures were unprecedented for a script book.