Harry Potter Fans Stupefied By £6,200 Ticket Costs For Cursed Child Play

Harry Potter fans may feel like they've been hit by the Petrificus Totalus spell when they discover just how much tickets for the sell-out Cursed Child play are going for online.

Tickets for the West End play are fetching thousands of pounds on resale websites.

The chance to see the Part Two alone of the play one night in March will set you back £6,221.38 on the Viagogo site. It has been reported the price previously topped more than £8,300.

Tickets on one resale website will set you back as much as £6,221.38 

And this isn't a one-off. You will be hard-pressed to find a ticket on the Viagogo and StubHub sites, among others, for less than £300.

Tickets bought via the official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child website cost a maximum of £140 for Parts One and Two combined.

In light of the vastly Engorgio-ed prices, the producers of the play have vowed to crack down on the secondary-ticket market, something they have described as an "industry-wide" plague.

They say any ticket not bought on official ticketing platforms will be considered void and ticket holders may be Azka-banned from going in to watch the play.

Around 60 bookings based on invalid tickets have so far been refused.

Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said: "The secondary-ticket market is an industry-wide plague, and one which we as producers take very seriously.

"Our priority is to protect all our customers and are doing all we can to combat this issue.

"From the outset accessible pricing has been of paramount importance to us.

Producers Sonia Friedman (L) and Colin Callender (R) at the press preview

"We have already been able to identify, and refuse entry to a significant number of people who purchased tickets through resale sites and will continue to track down touts and refuse entry to anyone who has knowingly bought a ticket from a tout through the secondary market."

Tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child broke box office records when they originally went on sale to the public in October last year.

A further 250,000 tickets went on sale on 4 August and sold out on the day. 

But lucky Potter fans may be able to grab returned tickets and other late release tickets which go on sale via the official site.

The play runs at London's Palace Theatre until 10 December 2017.