Though notable for crime fable likeMurder on the Orient Express , authorAgatha Christiedidn’t curb herself to the printed page . In 1952 , she pennedThe Mousetrap , a play about a group of snowbound cabin occupants who must key out which one is a murderer .
Like a book that ’s never gone out of print , The Mousetraphas scarce ever pause , running in London for the past 70 age andsettinga Guinness World Record for the world ’s longest - running play . Now , it ’s headed to Broadway .
According toBroadway World , the American version ofThe Mousetrapwill be helmed by its UK producer Adam Spiegel and New York producer Kevin McCollum . The latter has win Tonys for his work onRent , Avenue Q , andIn the Heights . In a program line , Spiegel jest that the gaming has had “ the long out of town tryout in chronicle . ”
Christie to begin with wroteThe Mousetrapbasedon her radio playThree Blind Mice , which she write at the behest of Queen Mary in 1947 : the monarch had said she would bask a new Christie story as a birthday present tense . When the BBC ask , Christie obliged . She also turned it into a short story .
Aside from a COVID-19 pause in 2020 and 2021 , it ’s run incessantly , clocking nearly 30,000 performances . Cast phallus have ( apparently ) varied over the years , but there ’s been one constant : the voice of actor Deryck Guyler , who can be heard reading a radiocommunication bulletin .
No cast has been herald for the Broadway interpretation . It ’s have a bun in the oven to debut sometime in 2023 .
[ h / tBroadway World ]
