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Subject: Re: Re: TP errors ("The Mousetrap")
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Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 20:55:48 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 16 20:55:48 1984
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> >>What's the longest running off-Broadway musical? Broadway non-musical?
> >>non-Broadway show?
> >>.Pete.
> 
> >"Mousetrap" by Agatha Cristy has been running non-stop in London for
> >over ten years (I can't remember the exact length, maybe even 15 years).
> >When I saw it last summer, it was the longest continuously running play
> >in the world.  I am pretty sure that is is still going strong.
> >
> >Jon Biggar
> 
> From The Seattle Times, Saturday, November 24, 1984:
> 
>     Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap," the world's longest-running play,
>     will be 32 years old tomorrow.  The play, a typical Christie murder
>     mystery, has had 30 changes of cast in its 13,676 London performances.
>     More than six million paying customers have packed the tiny theaters
>     where "The Mousetrap" played in its London version.  "It will last out
>     my lifetime," said producer Sir Peter Saunders, who first risked
>     staging the play in 1952.  He said Christie, after opening night,
>     figured "we might get six months out of it."
> 
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