Let me take you

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 6:23am

to a journey around the world in 80 days (or less...)

The story begins on October 2, 1872,
when an English gentleman by the name of Phileas Fogg enters the Reform Club, as he has done every other afternoon of his life. Each evening he would return home alone, where only his manservant waited for him. No servant ever lasted for more than a week with meticulous Phileas Fogg. One morning a Frenchman enters the Reform Club searching for Mr. Fogg in order to apply for the currently available job of manservant. The name of this man is Jean Passepartout .

> The servants at the Reform Club warn Jean Passepartout
of the terrible life awaiting him with Mr. Fogg as his master.

-Song No. 1 - Difficult Man (Passepartout and the servants):
http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=076WOOAXYC1FU1LN6T6L4U7S5X

Updated On: 2/5/05 at 06:23 AM

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 6:28am

Passepartout meets Mr. Fogg and is told to begin the job that very day. Fogg goes back to playing whist with his friends and,
during the game, talks about the recent robbery at the Bank of
England that was carried out by someone who looked like an English gentleman. The other gentlemen speculate that the police will never find the thief, since the world is large enough for him to hide in, but Phileas Fogg insists that the world is not as large as it once was. Thus was born the wager of circumnavigating the world in 80 days, with Fogg promising to return by 9:00 P.M. on Saturday, December 21, 1872.

> In this song Phileas Fogg tells Passepartout about their extraordinary upcoming mission. They say good-by to the gentlemen at Victoria Station. In the following days rumors of this strange wager spread, and the citizens of London make bets among themselves.

-Song No. 2 - Circumnavigating the World
(Fogg, Passepartout, the gentlemen, and the citizens):

http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UPFCITEOAB4A05L12AA157P6F

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 6:33am

Upon arriving in India, they take a train which crosses the entire Indian subcontinent from Bombay to Calcutta. Fifty kilometers before reaching their destination, the train stops, and they discover that the railroad track has never been finished. They must go by foot through the jungle, and, while walking, come upon a suttee ceremony in which the wife of a deceased rajah is being forced to be cremated alive, together with her husband's corpse. Phileas Fogg cannot stand aside while this young woman is burned alive, and decides to rescue her. Passepartout saves the girl using a surprisingly strange idea. The young woman turns out to be a princess named Aouda. Fogg suggests that she accompanies them to Calcutta, and the Princess agrees.

> The Princess laments the lack of attention of her savior, Phileas Fogg, who cannot see further than his own nose. She tries to make him jealous by dancing with sailors on the ship.

-Song No. 6 - Look at Me (Aouda and the sailors):

http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PP2JYTFGXKD32SYP9U7MF36BC

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 6:39am

Meanwhile, Passepartout has arrived in Japan and has no means of support. He is hungry and decides to give a street show in order to make some money.

> Passepartout befriends the passers-by in the market place by touting all of his talents and means of help that he can offer them in exchange for something to eat.

-Song No. 7 - I Love With All My Heart (Passepartout and the Japanese):

http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05KMSAA8DS6BF2053NLJM26Y3T

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 6:43am

At the California Hotel in San Francisco, Fogg rewards the strange man whom they found floating on a raft in the ocean. They had given him a lift, and he had allowed them to burn his wooden raft in order to reach the coast of America. They meet Fix again the hotel, but he cannot arrest Fogg yet because they are not on British soil. A grand ball is taking place in the hotel.

> Phileas Fogg doesn't know much about dancing, but the Princess, who is already totally in love with him, volunteers to teach him to waltz.

-Song No. 9 - Dance with Me (Aouda, Fogg and the cast):

http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02KRXC2W3OVE823QQNOQFECOYG

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 6:44am

to be continued...

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 1:29pm

...

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 2/5/05 at 3:20pm

I'm confused...what's the point of this??...not that the songs aren't good...but why have 30 different posts??

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:22am

Don't know

[Marquise]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:46am

music_lil i like this thread. it's cool. why don't you start a blog and transfer all this info to it, that way people can post comments to you directly? i like the pics, the songs are okay. nice job.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 2:39pm

I agree..put it on a blog so people can read it all at once. That would be easier, me thinks.

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 8:13am

LOL.. I will think about it.. there are a lot of Israeli musicals except this one... Glad you liked it!

[musical_il]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 9:21am

Here is the blog! LOL

http://musicalst.blogspot.com