Around the World in 80 Days at Meadow Brook Theatre

My play Around the World in 80 Days kicks off the 2014-15 season at the Meadow Brook Theatre this week. It’s a Michigan premiere and runs from Oct 1 – Oct 26. The Detroit Free Press has named it Best of the Best for this upcoming weekend.

I think this is one of the productions that put me in the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays for the 2014 -15 season.

The show is directed by Meadow Brook Theatre’s Artistic Director Travis Walter and the cast includes:

Rusty Mewha as Phileas Fogg

Mathew Schwartz as Passepartout

Ron Williams as Detective Fix

Kara Kimmer as Aouda

Peter C. Prouty as 16 characters

Steampunk

Meadow Brook is going for a steampunk-inspired production. The story lends itself very well for steampunk and has been successfully in the past. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre was very successful a few years ago by going steampunk.

Milwaukee Chamber

Michael Butler directed a steampunk version that was seen at Center REP, Laguna Playhouse, and the now defunct San Jose Rep. (I had nothing to do with San Jose going out of business. I swear).