The run closed August 3, 1946
- Opened
- May 31, 1946
- Closed
- August 3, 1946
- Performances
- 75
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Adelphi Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 277th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Other stagings of Around the World 1 more that season
| 1911 | Hippodrome Theatre Original · William J. Wilson | 445 perf. |
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
6 of these 52 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 46 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Choreographer
- Nelson Barclift
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
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
- the public decided Porter’s career was over, but he returned after a two-year absence from Broadway with his greatest work, Kiss Me, Kate. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 23
- AROUND THE WORLD was Porter’s biggest flop, losing a record $300,000 in a day when a big musical could be produced for $100,000. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 254
- His subsequent Broadway scores for Mexican Hayride, Seven Lively Arts and Around the World in 80 Days had not been heard in London, and it seemed as if the quality of these was far distant from that of his earlier works. West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical In London Adrian Wright, p. 93
- The list of Shubert productions at the Hippodrome included: Around the World (1911) —445 performances. Revue A Nostalgic Reprise of the Great Broadway Period Baral Robert Author 1st E, p. 26
- Around the World in Eighty Days, 312 Broadway Atkinson Brooks 1894 1984 Rev Ed New York New York State 1990 New York , p. 556
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Around the World at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.