sentences:  The show opened at the Barbican Theatre in 1985, transferring to the Palace Theatre in November 1985 and later to the Queen’s Theatre in Shaftebury Avenue, where it is still running after 31 years, the longest running musical in the West End.Caird also wrote and directed "Children of Eden" with music by Stephen Schwartz, which ran in the West End in 1996.Since being published by Music Theatre International in 1998 Children of Eden has now had over 2000 separate productions worldwide.