“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the two-part play that’s an ultra-hot ticket in London, looks to have scored its Broadway home. Producers of the show are in advanced discussions with the owners of New York’s Lyric Theater for a run that would open in spring 2018.

The Broadway incarnation of the “Harry Potter” play, a sequel of sorts to the story told over the course of the seven novels (and the eight initial films they inspired), had already been hotly anticipated by the New York theater industry, which regards the show as a potential “Hamilton”-sized hit. The show’s choice of venue represents a big win for Ambassador Theater Group, the U.K. theater giant that purchased the Lyric in 2013 as the first of its Broadway acquisitions. (The company has since bought Broadway’s Hudson Theater, due to reopen as a Broadway venue next year.)

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