Around the World, 1946

Who was in it52 named

Victoria Cordova
Lucas Aco
Nathan Baker
Kenneth Bonjukian
Mary Broussard
Bruce Cartwright
Jackie Cezanne
Cliff Chapman
Arthur Cohen
Adelaide Corsi
Daniel de Paolo
Eddy di Genova
Brainerd Duffield
Florence Gault
Ray Goody
Natalye Greene
Eleanore Gregory
Arline Hanna
Billy Howell
Ishikawa
Marion Kohler
Patricia Leith
Allan Lowell
Miss Lu
Gregory Mcdougall
Tony Montell
Virginia Morris
Lee Morrison
Nancy Newton
Miriam Pandor
Rose Marie Patane
Bernard Pisarski
Jack Pitchon
Virginia Sands
Genevieve Sauris
Bernard Savage
Victor Savidge
Gina Siena
Guy Spaull
George Spelvin
Myron Speth
Drucilla Strain
The Three Kanasawa
Stanley Turner
Lee Vincent
Gordon West

Creative team

Director

Orson Welles

Choreographer

Nelson Barclift

Around this production

Around the World is a musical based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days, with a book by Orson Welles and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It involves an around-the-world adventure by Phileas Fogg. The expensive musical extravaganza opened on Broadway in May 1946 but closed after 75 performances. As he did with his unsuccessful 1938 stage production of Too Much Johnson, Welles shot film sequences that were integrated into Around the World. This footage is lost.

The Boston tryout for Around the World opened on 28 April to mostly negative reviews. The Daily Boston Globe for 29 April, for instance, described it as “indeed a Welles production, vast, occasionally brilliant, sometimes dull and confused, satirical and compounded of many elements . . .” The Letters of Cole Porter Cole Porter Editor Cliff Eisen Editor Dominic Mchugh , p. 270