Harry Potter and Cursed Child coming to Broadway?

Harry Potter fans, here's news that will make your Christmas a lot happier. Harry Potter, his son Albus, and the whole next generation of wizards may be headed to Broadway. Yes, there are talks that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will make a debut in the spring of 2018. 

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been playing exclusively at London's Palace Theatre since previews started in June. However, author JK Rowling's official website, Pottermore, tweeted, "Plans are officially underway for 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' to open on Broadway, with producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender in detailed talks to open the show in a totally transformed Lyric Theatre in New York in the spring of 2018."

While this is great news for Potterheads, the wait is going to be long. It is reported that, to accommodate the Cursed Child, the New York Lyric Theatre will undergo a multimillion dollar transformation, and be remodelled from a 1,900-seat house to one that seats just 1,500, Pottermore reports.

"The moment we opened in the West End, the inevitable question was 'when are you going to Broadway?'. So we brought the creative team to New York in September this year to look at many of the beautiful theatres in New York city," Sonia Friedman, theatre producer, told the Pottermore website.

"When the redesigned Lyric was presented to us as an idea and what the possibilities could be, we re-thought the whole thing and totally fell in love with the notion of a theatre being created especially for the Cursed Child, overseen by designer Christine and our director John Tiffany," Friedman added.

The team is still planning the project. "But assuming we get the go ahead, we will have the theatre of our dreams that will be intimate enough for a drama, yet big enough for us to follow in the footsteps of the London production and continue to provide low priced tickets throughout the auditorium," Friedman said.

New Yorker Christine Jones, who created the iconic look of Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre, shared, "It's an incredibly unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience." Talking about debuting in New York, Friedman added, "It feels like we've only just opened it in London but it's a beautiful feeling being the custodians of this great work -- the custodians on behalf of fans. We know we need to bring it to New York as soon as we possibly can."

While the world prepares its countdown to 2017, Potterheads in the US will be striking off dates, awaiting the spring of 2018.