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Mousetrap on Broadway
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#50Mousetrap on Broadway
Posted: 6/15/23 at 4:24pm
See I really wish they would assemble the cast like most recent The Best Man or It’s Only A Play. Make it some sort of 18 week limited engagement “event”.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#51Mousetrap on Broadwayt
Posted: 6/15/23 at 5:33pm
lilpunkin said: "I work in theatre in London and the reason it does so well here is due to tourism, plain and simple, and that’s due to its iconic status as part of London’s history. If you glance at the London trip advisor forum, the one show that’s mentioned absolutely constantly is the bloody Mousetrap. People who’ve never been to the theatre go see it because it’s just kind of on the standard Tourist Attractions of London List: Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Big Ben (which is really the bell), Tower Bridge (which half of them think is named London Bridge), High Tea (which is really Afternoon Tea), fish and chips in a pub (sacrilege!), and the Mousetrap.
Another big part of the appeal is the theatre itself, which is living history and has such a big collection of paintings and old documents and things on display it’s essentially a museum as well.
I actually went to see the Mousetrap this year and I liked it a lot in a faintly soporific way, but I have a weird penchant for dusty old murder mysteries. I enjoyed the tradition and ritual of it. But I honestly don’t know one person in the theatre industry who’s ever seen it. It’s almost like not part of the industry at all, but parallel to it. I don’t mean that in a snobbish way, just that it’s considered a museum piece/tourist attraction, not a piece of theatre.
The news that it’s going to New York has boggled quite a lot of minds, and I can’t imagine it’ll do well unLess they cast and market it very cleverly. I don’t know what kind of audience there is in NY for London history, because the whole reason it’s successful in London won’t be there.
I played Giles in a regional prouction of this play. I must have been in my 40's at the time. Molly was roughly the same age. It wasn't a bad production--the audience did return after intermission--but it was a play that could easily be skipped.
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(Re the blind item. Of the three female parts, two are in their 20s. It’s a key plot point that one of them isI young, and the other - a newlywed - could maybe be played a little older but is very young in personality. I don’t I think the BI can be about this show.)"
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Updated On: 6/15/23 at 05:33 PM
#52Mousetrap on Broadwayt
Posted: 6/15/23 at 5:56pm
Now what the hell did you do to make… that happen.
betyourass
Chorus Member Joined: 6/15/22
#53Mousetrap on Broadwayt
Posted: 6/17/23 at 12:00pm
Would love an update on this production. I've never seen it and am curious to see it.
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#54Mousetrap on Broadwayt
Posted: 6/18/23 at 10:15am
See I would think that a limited run of someone like Tom hanks opening as the detective (even for a brief month run like NPH in peterpan) … I mean he did do lucky guy.
But even to have a cast in the realm of say the theatre names: Jane krawoski, Judith light, stockard Channing , John Gallagher jr. Cheyenne Jackson. Henry winkler. Brian Stokes Mitchell. Matt Doyle.
the great thing about the show is it can use so many pairings of people. Again I’d love to see this as an “event”
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#55Mousetrap on Broadwayt
Posted: 6/18/23 at 11:35am
How about Michael Urie as Christopher Wren?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Hyde Park Hildy
Swing Joined: 11/5/22
#56Mousetrap on Broadwayt
Posted: 12/29/23 at 10:38pm
So is this ever going to happen? It was supposed to arrive this year but obviously that never happened. And AFAIK there haven't been any updates.
macbeth
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/03
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