The play, based on author J.K. Rowling`s popular boy wizard character, is being planned for Broadway`s Lyric Theater, which will undergo a multi-million dollar revamp to house the elaborate production, the show`s producers said in a post on Rowling`s website Pottermore.com.
The Lyric Theater is one of Broadway`s largest venues, with nearly 1,900 seats, and has housed complex theatrical productions such as "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in 2005 and "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," which ran from 2010 to 2014.
In preparation for "Cursed Child," the Lyric Theater will be remodeled with a slightly reduced 1,500 seats, "to accommodate the dramatic look and feel" of the play.
"Cursed Child" is sold out at London`s Palace Theater until 2018, although more tickets are expected to be released in January.
The play is set 19 years after Rowling`s book series concluded the boy wizard`s teen years with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in 2007.
The play is penned by Jack Thorne, with a story co-created by Rowling, and centers on the lives of an adult Harry Potter and his son.
A book of the "Cursed Child" script, released to coincide with the opening of play, has become a best-seller this year, with more than 3 million copies sold in the United States within its first month.
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