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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Chris Wiegand Stage editor

The Mousetrap: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years

 Mary Law  in the West End production of The Mousetrap in 1957.
It’s a scream … Mary Law in the West End production of The Mousetrap in 1957. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images

The world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, is to finally make its Broadway debut. The announcement was made on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of the London production of Agatha Christie’s whodunnit.

The only surviving piece of the original set from 1952, a mantelpiece clock, will be lent from London for the run in New York when it opens in 2023. The play will be co-produced by The Mousetrap’s UK producer, Adam Spiegel, and US producer Kevin McCollum, whose credits include Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and the Broadway outings of the British am-dram spoof The Play That Goes Wrong and the musical Six.

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