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Longest Running West End show: The Mousetrap – 54 years and counting
The world’s longest-running theatre show is The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie, which has been running for 54 years. The Mousetrap opened on 25 November 1952 at the New Ambassadors theatre where it ran for nearly 22 years. On 25 March 1974, the legendary whodunit moved to the St Martin’s theatre, where it has remained ever since. The Mousetrap has now run for over 20,000 performances.
The top ten current West End long runners are as follows:
The Mousetrap at the St Martin's Theatre – 54th Year
Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre – 21st Year
The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre – 20th Year
Blood Brothers at the Phoenix Theatre – 18th Year
The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre – 18th Year
Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre – 9th Year
Mamma Mia! at the Prince of Wales Theatre – 8th Year
Disney's The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre – 7th Year
We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre – 4th Year
The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas at the Savoy Theatre – 4th Year
Longest Running West End Musical: Cats – 21 years
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s jellicle musical inspired by T.S Eliot’s poetry opened at the New London theatre on 11 May 1981 and ran until 11 May 2002. Cats also ran for nearly 18 record-breaking years on Broadway. On the West End, Cats enjoyed 8949 performances in all. Les Misérables will overtake Cats as the longest running West End musical on 8 October 2006.
Most Expensive West End Show: The Lord Of The Rings – estimated costs of £8 million
When it opens in London in 2007, the musical version of The Lord Of The Rings is widely expected to be the most expensive West End show ever, with production costs of around £8 million expected. This will eclipse the current holder of the record, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was reported to have costs of around £6.2 million
Oldest West End Theatre: Theatre Royal Drury Lane – 344 years and counting
While the ingeniously-titled The Theatre was London’s first playhouse in 1576, Drury Lane was the birthplace of West End theatre, with the first venue being opened on the site in 1662. As was often the case in those days, that theatre was ultimately burned down, but give or take the odd year for rebuilding, there has been a theatre on the site ever since.
Biggest West End theatre: The Coliseum – 2358 seats
The Coliseum, home of the English National Opera, is the West End’s largest venue in terms of seats, narrowly pipping the London Palladium (2291) and the Royal Opera House (2262 seats) to the title. (The Carling Apollo Hammersmith, which has a whopping 3574 seats is not counted as a West End venue for these purposes.)
