Production
Around the World began pre-Broadway tryouts at the Boston Opera House, Boston on April 28, 1946, moved to the Shubert Theatre, New Haven on May 7, 1946, and then transferred to the Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia on May 14, 1946.
The production premiered on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre on May 31, 1946, and closed on August 3, 1946, after 75 performances. After the failure of the New York production, Welles was keen to stage the show in London, where Alexander Korda predicted it would be a great success, but British trade union rules would not allow the use of the elaborate props and sets built for the American production, and they were burned. The sets proved too expensive to construct again, and the show never again received a full-scale staging.
It was produced and directed by Orson Welles with circus sequences created by Barbette, choreography by Nelson Barclift, costumes by Alvin Colt, set design by Robert Davison, and lighting by Peggy Clark. The show had 38 sets, which Welles asked to be designed in the style of the films of Georges Méliès.
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