Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uvaee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!uvaee!nst From: nst@uvaee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Re: TP errors ("The Mousetrap") Message-ID: <138@uvaee.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 20:55:48 EST Article-I.D.: uvaee.138 Posted: Sun Dec 16 20:55:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 01:34:08 EST References: <1069@akgua.UUCP> <470@homxa.UUCP> <5658@brl-tgr.ARPA> <486@homxa.UUCP> <1459@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <2016@uw-june> Organization: EE Dept., U of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 29 > >>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." > > -- > Human: Gordon Davisson > USnail: 5008 12th NE, Seattle, WA, 98105 > UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax,tektronix}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon > ARPA: gordon@uw-june *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***