Shows · Around the World
Around the World
Opened 1946
75 performances
Musical, Golden Age
Based on Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, the eccentric English gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers that he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Accompanied by his resourceful valet Passepartout, Fogg races through exotic locales from Suez to Bombay to Hong Kong, pursued by a detective who suspects him of bank robbery, encountering spectacular adventures at every stop.
- Music
- Cole Porter
- Lyrics
- Cole Porter
- Book
- Orson Welles
Productions2 on Broadway
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.
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