Around the World in Eighty Days

In a fun family musical, Steam Industry Free Theatre director Phil Willmott’s adaptation of gentleman-adventurer Phileas Fogg’s wager-winning dash across the globe has an enjoyable Broadway brashness and sense of fun. Its confection of catchy songs and popular nineteenth-century fact and fiction (Queen Victoria and Sherlock Holmes both cameo) provides some well-placed digs at British imperialism while ensuring that the pace never slackens.