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From: gordon@uw-june (Gordon Davisson)
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Subject: Re: TP errors ("The Mousetrap")
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 22:22:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 22:22:07 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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