Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Will Be in Two Parts When It Opens in London's West End

Muggles rejoice! The hotly anticipated Harry Potter stage play is so epic, it's going to be staged in two parts. "It can be seen on consecutive days in the same week or in some instances on the same day," producer Sonia Friedman told the Daily Mail. This is because the story was "too long to be told in a traditional length and it became inevitable that it had to be in two parts." Schedules for Harry Potter and The Cursed Child are still being finalized, but as previously reported the production will open at the Palace Theatre next summer.

The production will be based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Penned by Thorne, the play will directed by Tony winner Tiffany (Once). Casting will be announced later.

The Harry Potter play will look into the story of the wizard's parents, James and Lily Evans Potter, before they were murdered by Lord Voldemort, and Harry Potter’s early years as an orphan and outcast.The seven-volume Harry Potter series has sold more than 450 million copies and been translated into 77 languages. The books were adapted into eight movies starring Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winners Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, along with Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.

Currently home to The Commitments, which will close on November 1, the Palace Theatre usually plays host to musicals, but we somehow have a feeling that they'll have no problem selling tickets.

We also sense that this has "Broadway transfer" written all over it.