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| re: THE MOUSETRAP: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years | |
| Posted by: Musicals54 09:10 am EST 11/25/22 | |
| In reply to: re: THE MOUSETRAP: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years - Amiens 08:35 am EST 11/25/22 | |
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| Christie herself didn’t think it was her best play at all. She thought Witness For The Prosecution was. She thought Mousetrap would be only a modest success and gave her nephew the rights as a gift. The cartoon in the story is wrong. The play opened at another theatre Ambassadors. Running costs for it are far less than Witness - much larger cast and one set vs multiple. |
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| re: THE MOUSETRAP: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 01:49 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 01:44 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
| In reply to: re: THE MOUSETRAP: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years - Musicals54 09:10 am EST 11/25/22 | |
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| She was probably right about WITNESS. It's an elegant game played on multiple levels with the audience's expectations and prejudices. Lucy Bailey's still running production in London shows it off to great advantage. But I'm often surprised at how versatile Agatha Christie can be in the hands of distinctive directors like René Clair whose surrealist take on AND THEN THERE WERE NONE I saw recently for the first time and loved. | |
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| re: THE MOUSETRAP: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years | |
| Posted by: BobPlak 11:37 am EST 11/25/22 | |
| In reply to: re: THE MOUSETRAP: Agatha Christie’s West End hit to make Broadway debut after 70 years - Musicals54 09:10 am EST 11/25/22 | |
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| She gave the rights to her only grandchild, Mathew Prichard. He was nine years old at the time. She had no idea what a gift she was giving him. He made a lot of money from that but he wound up being the sole inheritor of her entire estate and has made millions of pounds over the years from royalties. While I'm in a correcting mode, I can't believe that article said The Mousetrap has never been done in New York. As has been pointed out already here, it ran for about five months off-Broadway in 1960. |
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