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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS’ world pre miere per -for mance was given by the Utah Shake spear ean Fes ti val, Ce darCity, Utah (Fred C. Ad ams, Founder and Ex ec u tive Pro ducer),Sep tem ber 15, 2001. The art ists were as fol lows:

CASTActor 1: Gauthier Ralph, British Consul, Director of Police,

Priest, Sir Francis, Judge Obadiah, Chinese Broker, ShipClerk, Bunsby, Proctor, Engineer, Mudge, Clerk, CaptainSpeedy, Ship Engineer, Train Clerk. . . . . . . . . . Sam Stewart

Actor 2: Andrew Stuart, Detective Fix, Priest, Conductor, Elephant Owner, Young Parsi, Oysterpuff, Reverend Wilson’s Servant (a woman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Kinter

Actor 3: Passepartout, John Sullivan . . . . . . . . Alexander WardActor 4: James Forster, Priest, Aouda . . . . . . . . . Enid AtkinsonActor 5: Fogg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Stuart*Actor 6: Foley Artist, Newspaperman . . . Bradley Dean Whyte

AR TIS TIC STAFFDirector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Russell TreyzScenic Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher PickartCostume Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret E. WeedonLighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brad NelsonHair and Make-Up Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda FrenchSound Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Todd RossVoice, Speech, and Dialect Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyne TurnerFight Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher VillaProduction Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen K. Wegner

*The world pre miere pro duc tion used six ac tors.All fol low ing and sub se quent pro duc tions have used five ac tors,as writ ten.

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Orlando Shakespeare Festival, May 3, 2002:

CASTActor 1: Gauthier Ralph, British Consul, Director of Police,

Priest, Sir Francis, Judge Obadiah, Chinese Broker, ShipClerk, Bunsby, Proctor, Engineer, Mudge, Clerk, CaptainSpeedy, Ship Engineer, Train Clerk. . . . . . . . . . Philip Nolen

Actor 2: Andrew Stuart, Detective Fix, Priest, Conductor, Elephant Owner, Young Parsi, Oysterpuff, Reverend Wilson’s Servant (a woman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Hissom

Actor 3: Passepartout, John Sullivan. . . . . . . . . Brad DePlancheActor 4: James Forster, Newspaperman, Priest, Aouda . . . . . . .

Margi SharpActor 5: Fogg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Width

ARTISTIC STAFFDirector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Russell TreyzScenic Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob PhillipsCostume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack SmithLighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric T. HaugenSound Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aaron MuhlProduction Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joel LevineProperties Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wendy HillerAssistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jay ShephardAudio Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macie Denny

Orig i nal read ings and work shop pro duc tion by the Or lando-UCF Shake speare Fes ti val, Or lando, Florida.

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYSA Play in Two Acts

For 4 men, 1 woman, play ing mul ti ple roles

CHAR AC TER BREAK DOWN

AC TOR 1:Gauthier Ralph, Brit ish Con sul, Di rec tor of Po lice,Priest, Sir Fran cis, Judge Obadiah, Chi nese Bro ker, Ship Clerk, Bunsby, Proc tor, En gi neer, Mudge, Clerk,Speedy, Ship En gi neer, Train Clerk

AC TOR 2:An drew Stu art, De tec tive Fix, Priest, In dian Con duc tor,El e phant Owner, Young Parsi, Oysterpuff,U.S. Con duc tor, Rev er end Wil son’s Ser vant (a woman)

AC TOR 3:Passepartout, John Sullivan

AC TOR 4:James Forster, News pa per man, Priest, Aouda

AC TOR 5:Phileas Fogg

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ACT I

WE MEET PHILEAS FOGG

(As the lights come up, we see an old-fash ioned map ofthe world and an old-fash ioned train sched ule board.The tick ing of a clock is heard. PHILEAS FOGG sits,star ing straight ahead.

Af ter a few beats, AC TOR 1 en ters.)

AC TOR 1. In the year 1872, num ber 7 Saville Row,Burlington Gar dens, Eng land, is oc cu pied by PhileasFogg, Esq. The reg u lar hab its of Phileas Fogg are suchas to de mand very lit tle from his sole ser vant, JamesForster—

(JAMES FORSTER en ters.)

JAMES FORSTER. Ex-sole ser vant.AC TOR 1. I beg your par don?JAMES FORSTER. I was sacked to day.AC TOR 1. What hap pened?JAMES FORSTER. I made the mis take of bring ing him his

shav ing wa ter at a tem per a ture of 84 de grees Fahr en heitin stead of 86 de grees Fahr en heit.

AC TOR 1. You’re jok ing.JAMES FORSTER. No.

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AC TOR 1. He’s very pre cise.JAMES FORSTER. That’s not the word I’d use.PASSEPARTOUT (from off stage). Hallo…?JAMES FORSTER. Ex cuse me. There’s my re place ment.

(To FOGG.) The new ser vant, sir.PHILEAS FOGG. Show him in.

(He shows in PASSEPARTOUT.)

PASSEPARTOUT. Bon jour, mon sieur. (He hands FOGGsome pa pers.)

PHILEAS FOGG. You are a French man and your name isJohn?

PASSEPARTOUT. Jean, if mon sieur pleases. Jean Passe -partout.

PHILEAS FOGG. Quite a re sume. Cir cus rider, tra peze art -ist.

PASSEPARTOUT. Tight rope walker.PHILEAS FOGG. Gym nas tics teacher. Paris Fire Bri gade.PASSEPARTOUT. Ser geant.PHILEAS FOGG. Why did you leave France?PASSEPARTOUT. I wish for a qui eter life, mon sieur.

How ever, I have yet to find a mas ter’s life style whichsuits mine.

PHILEAS FOGG. You come well rec om mended. You areaware of my terms?

PASSEPARTOUT. Oui, mon sieur. PHILEAS FOGG. Good! Have you a watch?PASSEPARTOUT. Oui, mon sieur. A fam ily watch, which

has come down from my great-grand fa ther. It does notvary five min utes in the year. It is a per fect time piece.

10 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Act I


PHILEAS FOGG. Good. Now from this mo ment, twenty- nine min utes af ter eleven…

(PASSEPARTOUT and FOGG com pare watches.)

PASSEPARTOUT. Oui.PHILEAS FOGG. …you are in my ser vice. (FOGG ex its.)PASSEPARTOUT. I do be lieve I have seen peo ple at Ma -

dame Tussaud’s with more life than Mon sieur Fogg.JAMES FORSTER. Now, Mr. Passepartout, you shall find

the daily sched ule and ev ery thing that is re quired of you on the card above the clock. Mr. Fogg rises at ex actlyeight in the morn ing, at tends the Re form Club at eleven- thirty and re tires pre cisely at mid night.

(Per haps a large ver sion of the card flies in…per hapsnot.)

PASSEPARTOUT (read ing the card). Tea and toast attwenty-three min utes past eight, shav ing wa ter at thirty-seven min utes past nine

JAMES FORSTER. Eighty-six de grees Fahr en heit.PASSEPARTOUT. Toi let at twenty min utes be fore ten.JAMES FORSTER. Mr. Fogg’s ward robe, trou sers, coats,

vests and shoes are all num bered, in di cat ing the day,time of year and sea son they are to be laid out for wear -ing.

PASSEPARTOUT. He’s a real ma chine.JAMES FORSTER. That’s not the word I’d use, but yes,

he is ex ac ti tude per son i fied. Mon sieur Passepartout,God speed. (JAMES FORSTER ex its.)

Act I AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS 11


PASSEPARTOUT. This is just what I wanted! We shallget along mag nif i cently, Mr. Fogg and I!

AC TOR 1. Mr. Fogg is cer tainly one of the most re mark -able, and in deed most re marked upon mem bers of theRe form Club.

(AC TORS 1, 2 and 3 be come mem bers of the Re formClub.)

THE BET

AN DREW STU ART. Clearly he’s Brit ish, al though I doubt he’s a Lon doner.

JOHN SULLIVAN. True. I’ve never seen him at the StockEx change nor any of the count ing-rooms in the city.

GAUTHIER RALPH. He’s not on any board of di rec tors,as far as I know.

AN DREW STU ART. He’s cer tainly not a man u fac turer.JOHN SULLIVAN. Nor a mer chant.GAUTHIER RALPH. But he has quite a for tune.JOHN SULLIVAN. With out a doubt.AN DREW STU ART. But how?ALL. Hmm…JOHN SULLIVAN. I could n’t say.GAUTHIER RALPH. He’s well trav eled.JOHN SULLIVAN. Quite.GAUTHIER RALPH. I’ve never met a gen tle man more fa -

mil iar with the world in my life.JOHN SULLIVAN. He must have trav eled ev ery where.AN DREW STU ART. Yet I’ve never seen him any where

else but here in Lon don.



GAUTHIER RALPH. True. He’s at the club ev ery day totake his lunch and din ner.

JOHN SULLIVAN. At the same time.AN DREW STU ART. In the same room.GAUTHIER RALPH. At the same ta ble.ALL. Alone.JOHN SULLIVAN. He has no wife.AN DREW STU ART. Nor chil dren.GAUTHIER RALPH. Which can hap pen to even the most

re spect able of gen tle men.AN DREW STU ART. Yet he has no friends.JOHN SULLIVAN. Nor rel a tives.GAUTHIER RALPH. Which I ad mit is quite rare.ALL. Hmm…AN DREW STU ART. I think per haps that he…

(FOGG en ters, sits and reads the pa per.)

JOHN SULLIVAN. Ahem… Yes… Well, what’s the lat est on that bank theft?

AN DREW STU ART. Oh the bank will lose the money.GAUTHIER RALPH. On the con trary. I’m con fi dent that

we will soon lay our hands upon the fel low. Skill ful de -tec tives have been sent to all the prin ci pal ports of theCon ti nent and he’ll be a clever fel low if he slips through their fin gers.

AN DREW STU ART. But do we have the thief’s de scrip -tion?

GAUTHIER RALPH. In the first place, he is not a thief atall.

AN DREW STU ART. What!? Not a thief? A fel low whomakes off with fifty-five thou sand pounds?



GAUTHIER RALPH. No.JOHN SULLIVAN. Per haps he’s a bar ris ter, then. ALL (ad lib). Jolly good, Sullivan. Well played, Sullivan.

Well done, Sullivan.PHILEAS FOGG. The Daily Tele graph says that he is a

gen tle man.AN DREW STU ART. What?PHILEAS FOGG. Ac cord ing to The Daily Tele graph, there

are real grounds for sup pos ing the thief does not be longto a crim i nal gang.

(A large news pa per flies in as the NEWS PA PER MAN en -ters.)

NEWS PA PER MAN. The ar ti cle Mr. Fogg is re fer ring to is on page one of The Daily Tele graph, 2nd Oct. 1872. Itstates, in part, and I quote: On the day of the rob bery, adis tin guished, well-dressed gen tle man with pol ishedman ners was seen go ing to and fro in the cash room,where the theft took place. A de scrip tion of him waseas ily pro cured and sent to ev ery de tec tive in the United King dom and Eu rope…end quote.

(The map flies out and the NEWS PA PER MAN ex its.)

GAUTHIER RALPH. You see? There’s not a chance thethief will es cape.

AN DREW STU ART. I main tain that the chances are in fa -vor of the thief, who is clearly a shrewd fel low.

JOHN SULLIVAN. Whist any one?GAUTHIER RALPH. Cer tainly.AN DREW STU ART. Of course.



(They play cards.)

GAUTHIER RALPH. But where can this gen tle man hide?No coun try is safe for him.

AN DREW STU ART. Really?GAUTHIER RALPH. Where could he go then?AN DREW STU ART. I could n’t say. It’s an aw fully big

world.PHILEAS FOGG. It was once. Cut, sir.AN DREW STU ART. What do you mean by “once”? Has

the world grown smaller?GAUTHIER RALPH. Cer tainly. I agree with Mr. Fogg.

The world has grown smaller, since a man can now goround it ten times more quickly than a hun dred yearsago. And that is why the search for this thief will bemore likely to suc ceed.

AN DREW STU ART. And also why the thief can get awaymore eas ily.

PHILEAS FOGG. Be so good as to play, Mr. Stu art.AN DREW STU ART. You have a strange way, Ralph, of

prov ing that the world has grown smaller. So, be causeyou can go round it in three months—

PHILEAS FOGG. Eighty days.AN DREW STU ART. Eighty days?JOHN SULLIVAN. That is true. There is an es ti mate made

by The Daily Tele graph.

(The NEWS PA PER MAN en ters.)

NEWS PA PER MAN. The ar ti cle that Mr. Fogg and Mr.Sullivan are re fer ring, (a large news pa per flies in)“Great In dian Pen in sula Rail way at Last Com plete,” ap -



pears on page three of The Daily Tele graph, 2nd Oct.1872. It dis cusses how the sec tion be tween Rothal andAllahabad has fi nally opened, thus con nect ing Bom bayand Cal cutta by rail, mak ing it pos si ble for one to travelaround the world by steamer and rail. (The map fliesout.) The es ti mate made by The Daily Tele graph is thus:

(The NEWS PA PER MAN re fers to the old wooden trainboard. As each “leg” of the jour ney is an nounced, thecity and the travel times flip on the board.)

NEWS PA PER MAN. Lon don to Suez by rail and steamer:7 days. Suez to Bom bay by steamer: 13 days. Bom bayto Cal cutta by rail: 3 days. Cal cutta to Hong Kong bysteamer: 13 days. Hong Kong to Yo ko hama by steamer:6 days. Yo ko hama to San Fran cisco by steamer: 22days. San Fran cisco to New York by rail: 7 days. AndNew York to Lon don by steamer and rail: 9 days. To tal: 80 days. (The NEWS PA PER MAN ex its.)

AN DREW STU ART. Yes, eighty days…in the ory. But that does n’t take into ac count bad weather, head winds, ship -wrecks, rail way ac ci dents, and so on.

PHILEAS FOGG. All in cluded.AN DREW STU ART. But sup pose the Hin dus or In di ans

pull up the rails? Sup pose they stop the trains, pil lagethe lug gage-vans, and scalp the pas sen gers!

PHILEAS FOGG. All in cluded. Two trumps.AN DREW STU ART. The o retically you are right, Mr.

Fogg, but prac ti cally—PHILEAS FOGG. Prac ti cally also, Mr. Stu art.AN DREW STU ART. I should like to see you go round the

world in eighty days.



PHILEAS FOGG. I should like noth ing better.AN DREW STU ART. When?PHILEAS FOGG. Now.AN DREW STU ART. Very well, Mr. Fogg. I shall wager

four thou sand pounds.GAUTHIER RALPH. Calm your self, my dear Stu art, it’s

only a joke.AN DREW STU ART. When I say I’ll wager, I mean it.PHILEAS FOGG. All right. I have a de posit of twenty

thou sand at Baring’s which I will will ingly risk upon it.ALL. Twenty thou sand pounds?!GAUTHIER RALPH. You will surely lose that with a sin -

gle un fore seen mis hap!PHILEAS FOGG. The un fore seen does not ex ist.JOHN SULLIVAN. But, Mr. Fogg, this pe riod of eighty

days is only an es ti mate of the min i mum time it can beac com plished in.

PHILEAS FOGG. A well-es ti mated min i mum will suf fice.JOHN SULLIVAN. But, in or der to ac com plish it, you

must jump math e mat i cally from the trains to the steam -ers, and from the steam ers to the trains again.

PHILEAS FOGG. I will jump…math e mat i cally.AN DREW STU ART. You’re jok ing!PHILEAS FOGG. A true Eng lish man never jokes when he

is talk ing about so se ri ous a thing as a wager. I shall bettwenty thou sand pounds against any one who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less.That is, in nine teen hun dred and twenty hours, or onehun dred and fif teen thou sand two hun dred min utes. Doyou ac cept?

ALL. We ac cept.



PHILEAS FOGG. Good. The train leaves for Do ver ateight fifty-five. I will take it.

AN DREW STU ART. This very eve ning?PHILEAS FOGG. This very eve ning. As to day is Wednes -

day, the 2nd of Oc to ber, I shall be due in Lon don in this very room of the Re form Club, on Sat ur day, the 21st ofDe cem ber, at eight fifty-five p.m. If I shall fail, thetwenty thou sand pounds, now de pos ited in my name atBaring’s, will be long to you, gen tle men. Here is acheque for the amount.

(A clock strikes seven.)

JOHN SULLIVAN. Seven o’clock.GAUTHIER RALPH. Shall we sus pend the game?AN DREW STU ART. So that you might make prep a ra tions

for your de par ture.PHILEAS FOGG. I am quite ready now. Di a monds are

trumps. Be so good as to play, gen tle men.

(Is he jok ing?…They play cards.)

FOGG BREAKS THE NEWS TO PASSEPARTOUT

PASSEPARTOUT (read ing from the card). “And tea withone spoon ful of honey at five min utes past twelve.” I be -lieve I have it all mem o rized.

(FOGG en ters…)

PHILEAS FOGG. Passepartout. (And ex its.)



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