Around the World is a musical based on the 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 it closed after 75 performances.

As he had for his aborted 1938 stage production of Too Much Johnson, Welles shot motion picture sequences that were integrated into Around the World. The film is lost.

History

After he finished shooting his 1946 film, The Stranger, Orson Welles decided to make a musical out of one of his favorite childhood books, Around the World in Eighty Days. He wanted an entire circus on stage, a train running through the West, and had other extravagant production ideas. He raised money from Mike Todd, the producer William Goetz, and the holder of the European rights to the title, Alexander Korda. However, he had no money left for a star cast and used performers who were not well known. According to Charles Higham (writer of a highly critical Welles biography) "Porter wrote the songs far too quickly and badly".

Around the World may refer to:

Music

Albums

Songs

"Around the World" is the second single from Dutch singer Natalie La Rose featuring American rapper Fetty Wap. The single reached number 3 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. It was written by Marco Borrero, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Rickard Goransson, Justin Franks and Willie Maxwell, and was produced by Martin.

Music video

The music video was released on July 24, 2015 on La Rose's Vevo account. Fetty Wap does not appear in the video.

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Around the World, Irish Poker, Chico High Low, Monkey Balls, Foam Game, North Carolina, Up the River Down the River, John Theis, Harry Curie, Tim de Withen, Charleston Special, or Unlucky 'Sevens' Seven is a card based drinking game, similar to, but more complex (and at the same time quicker) than, Fuck the Dealer. The game requires one standard (52-card) deck of playing cards.

Rules

The game is divided into two rounds. The first is a guessing or probabilistic round where players must make predictions about the card to be drawn, while the second is completely chance based.

Round One

In the first phase of the game, each player must make a prediction about the card to be drawn on their turn.

The dealer deals each player 4 cards face up but before dealing each card, the dealer asks the player a question about the card. If the player guesses correctly, they may "give" a drink (i.e. select a rival player who must drink). If their guess is incorrect they must instead "take" a drink. The players keep the cards that are dealt to them as they are required for the later queries and are the basis of the second round; The questions are: