The long-running manufacturing will switch to New York for a restricted engagement after 70 years on London's West Finish.
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, the longest-running stage play on the earth, is transferring to Broadway.
In an announcement Friday marking the present’s seventieth anniversary, producers Adam Spiegel and Kevin McCollum revealed plans for a restricted engagement of the homicide thriller to reach someday in 2023. The present initially opened at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal in October 1952 after Christie wrote it, below the identify Three Blind Mice, as a brief BBC radio play commissioned for Queen Mary and broadcast in 1947.
In a press release, Spiegel celebrated “right now’s milestone” and “The Mousetrap’s illustrious run” throughout the pond. “I really feel after the longest out-of-town try-out in historical past, The Mousetrap is lastly able to switch to Broadway,” the producer stated in a press release.
The play facilities on the visitors and workers at Monkswell Manor, stranded in a snowstorm after the homicide of a neighborhood girl. When it turns into clear the assassin is amongst them, the seven strangers — newlyweds, a spinster, an architect, a retired Military main, a jurist and a wierd man whose automobile was overturned within the drift — develop suspicious of each other. Ultimately, the group faces not simply an interrogation by a newly arrived police detective however a second homicide.
The radio play, impressed by an actual story of two brothers who have been abused in foster care — one in every of which died consequently — was tailored by the famed thriller author into a brief story revealed first in 1948 for Cosmopolitan journal. It has remained unpublished within the U.Okay. on the behest of the creator, who wished for it to not conflict with the stage present so long as it ran.
“I'm thrilled that Agatha Christie’s beloved homicide thriller that modified standard theatre and has been a landmark attraction for U.S. guests to London’s West Finish for the previous 70 years will now be coming to Broadway,” McCollum stated in a press release.
The manufacturing will probably be a “loving recreation of Anthony Holland’s design,” in line with the present’s web site, with the distinctive backstage wind machine that includes the unique producer’s identify shipped throughout the Atlantic. As well as, the one surviving piece of the unique set — the mantelpiece clock — will probably be on mortgage from the London manufacturing.
The Mousetrap will announce its New York forged at a later date, together with its venue, opening date and artistic workforce.
After happening a pre-West Finish tour, the unique Ambassadors Theatre manufacturing opened in November 1952 on the route of Peter Cotes. The Mousetrap would switch to its present dwelling subsequent door at St. Martin’s Theatre in 1974. Then-married actors Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim, among the many manufacturing’s largest names, would originate two of the West Finish present’s main roles — Detective Sergeant Trotter and one-half of the Monkswell Manor guesthouse homeowners, Mollie Ralston, respectively.
It's described because the longest-known working play in historical past, having staged over 28,000 performances, in line with the manufacturing. In 2012, for the present’s sixtieth anniversary, The Guardian reported that greater than 400 actors had appeared within the forged since its opening.