What is the longest running show staged at London's Royal Drury Lane theatre?
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane the West End theatre scene and still stages popular musical productions. Later long runs at the theatre include productions of "A Chorus Line" (1976–1979), "42nd Street" (1984–1989), "Miss Saigon" (1989–1999, the theatre's longest-running show), "The Producers" (2004–2007), an original musical, "The Lord of the Rings" (2007–2008), "Oliver!" (2009–2011) and "Shrek The Musical" (2011–2013). "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical" played from 2013 through January 2017. The Drury Lane is owned and managed by LW Theatres, owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The seating plan for the theatre remains the same and the auditorium is still one of the largest in
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Theatre Royal, Drury Lane The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed