Around the World (musical)

Around the World
The Playbill for the Adelphi Theatre (May 31, 1946)
MusicCole Porter
LyricsCole Porter
BookOrson Welles
BasisAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Productions1946 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.