Around the World (musical)
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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.
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Around the World | |
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Music | Cole Porter |
Lyrics | Cole Porter |
Book | Orson Welles |
Basis | Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
Productions | 1946 Broadway |
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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.