75 performances. It was produced and directed by 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. There were 38 sets, which Welles asked to be designed in the style of the films of Georges Méliès. "Some of the more spectacular scenes included a giant eagle snatching an actor from the stage, an authentic Japanese circus troupe, a live elephant, a train crossing the rocky mountains, and a troop of Marines", wrote Welles scholar Bret Wood. "Motion picture footage was shot and integrated into the play to heighten its mad, vaudevillian qualities." Technical problems were largely resolved before the New York opening. Welles performed various roles through the play's run, and once was required to play the lead: On the last night of the Boston run, when Arthur Margetson lost his voice, Welles read the part of Fogg and an understudy sang the songs. "The audience felt blessed," wrote biographer David Thomson. "It was a spellbinding night, with Welles talking everyone—audience included—through their parts." Although audiences reportedly loved Around the World, its precarious finances—and the theatre's inadequate air conditioning—could not sustain it through the summer, and Welles was forced to close it. He personally lost an estimated $320,000 () on the production. Due to bad legal advice, he was unable to claim the loss on his taxes, and it took him many years to pay the debt. After the show's failure, Welles was keen to stage it in London, where Alexander Korda predicted it would be a great success, but British trade union rules forbade the elaborate props and sets built for the American production, and they had to be destroyed. They proved too expensive to reconstruct, and the show never again received a full-scale staging. Program This is the order of the program as it appears in The Playbill for the Adelphi Theatre production beginning Friday, May 31, 1946 (pp. 17–19): ACT I. Scene 1. Movies. Scene 2. Interior of Jevit's Bank, London, England. Scene 3. Movies. Scene 4. Hyde Park. Scene 5. A London Street. Scene 6. Mr. Fogg's Flat in London. Scene 7. A Street before the Whist Club. Scene 8. The Card Room of the Whist Club. Scene 9. Fogg's Flat. Scene 10. The Charing Cross Railroad Station. Scene 11. Suez, Egypt. Scene 12. The End of Railway Tracks in