Tickets for the new Harry Potter stage play are being offered for sale for up to £2,000 each – more than 15 times their face value.
Resale websites Viagogo and Stubhub are doing brisk business as ticketholders look to cash-in on demand for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which starts previews tonight at the Palace Theatre.
The play is by JK Rowling in collaboration with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany and picks up the story of Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults. A ticket to see both instalments of the two-part play in the stalls, which would normally cost £130 was being advertised on Viagogo for £2,012 today.
The show has a sold out run until May 2017 with fans expected to fly to London from all over the world to see it.
Rowling appealed to fans not to give the story away as the play has eight weeks of previews before it opens to the critics. She said in a video message yesterday: “I am asking you one more time to keep the secrets and allow audiences to enjoy Cursed Child with all the surprises that we’ve built into the story.”
Producer Colin Callender said: “None of us, all quite experienced in the theatre world, have ever experienced anything of this magnitude and intensity before.”
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