And the World Goes 'Round is a musical revue showcasing the songs of John Kander

and Fred Ebb. The revue takes its title from a tune the songwriting team wrote for
Liza Minnelli to sing in the film New York, New York.
Contents [hide]
1 Productions
2 Songs
3 Critical response
4 References
5 External links
Productions[edit]
The show consists of an eclectic collection of love songs, torch songs, and
acerbically witty comic numbers. It was conceived by director Scott Ellis,
choreographer Susan Stroman, and librettist David Thompson, who collaborated on
such Kander and Ebb shows as Steel Pier and the 1996 revival of Chicago. David Loud
created the vocal and dance arrangements.
It opened on March 18, 1991 Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre, and closed on
March 8, 1992, after 408 performances. The original cast featured Karen Ziemba,
Robert Cuccioli, Karen Mason, Brenda Pressley, and Jim Walton. Natalie Venetia
Belcon, Joel Blum and Marin Mazzie were replacements later in the run.
It won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, and Cuccioli received the
Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance. Additional honors included Drama
Desk Awards for Outstanding Musical Revue, Outstanding Featured Actress in a
Musical (Ziemba), and Outstanding Director of a Musical.[1]
An original cast recording was released by RCA Records.
Starting in August 1992, Ziemba, Blum, and Mazzie were joined by John Ruess and
Shelley Dickinson for a 10-month US national tour. With scenic and technical
embellishments added and the title simplified to The World Goes 'Round, the revised
edition included mostly upbeat, unfamiliar songs from the team's lesser musicals:
The Happy Time, The Rink, The Act, Flora the Red Menace, and what was then a work-
in-progress, Kiss of the Spider Woman.[2]
Throughout the years the revue has been staged by regional and community theatre
groups and as a fringe theatre production in London.
With direction and choreography by Nikki Snelson and musical direction by Ben
Kiley, the show premiered in Singapore on September 26, 2013 in the Singapore
Airlines Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts. The shows cast included Kimberly
Chan, Chinie Concepcion, Samantha Kwok, Brett Khaou, Hannah Lucas, Renfred Ng,
Jordan Prainito and Rachel Tay.[3]
Songs[edit]
And The World Goes 'Round New York, New York
Yes 70, Girls, 70
Coffee in a Cardboard Cup 70, Girls, 70
The Happy Time The Happy Time
Colored Lights The Rink
Sara Lee The Act
Arthur in the Afternoon The Act
My Coloring Book
I Don't Remember You The Happy Time
Sometimes a Day Goes By Woman of the Year
All That Jazz Chicago
Class Chicago
Mr. Cellophane Chicago
Me & My Baby Chicago
There Goes the Ball Game New York, New York
How Lucky Can You Get? Funny Lady
The Rink The Rink
Ring Them Bells Liza with a Z
Kiss of the Spider Woman Kiss of the Spider Woman
Only Love - Zorba
Marry Me The Rink
A Quiet Thing Flora, The Red Menace
Pain
The Grass is Always Greener Woman of the Year
We Can Make It The Rink
Maybe This Time Cabaret
Isn't This Better? Funny Lady
The Money Song Cabaret
Cabaret Cabaret
Theme from New York, New York New York, New York
Critical response[edit]
In his New York Times review, Frank Rich wrote:
And the World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb, the new revue at the
commodiously renovated Westside Theater, may be its authors' long overdue smash.
The evening is an unexpected delight: a handsome, tasteful, snazzily staged
outpouring of song and dance that celebrates all the virtues of the Kander-Ebb
catalogue while scrupulously avoiding most of the cloying cliches of and-then-I-
wrote anthologies. The revue is sophisticated enough to satisfy aficionados like
myself, who recently spent a week's allowance to replace a worn copy of the out-of-
print cast album of The Happy Time, and welcoming enough to convert new audiences
to the Kander-Ebb fold. The five fresh performers, mostly familiar but unheralded
Broadway hands, are the best team of its sort to hit town since the quintet in
Ain't Misbehavin'.[4]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Drama Desk Awards, 199091 dramadesk.com, accessed April 2, 2009
Jump up ^ Klein, Alvin. "Kander and Ebb's 'World' on Tour",The New York Times,
August 23, 1992
Jump up ^ "Singapore Show Listings" broadwayworld.com
Jump up ^ Rich, Frank."All the Best of Kander and Ebb", New York Times, March 19,
1991
External links[edit]
Lortel Archives listing
Listing at Guide To Musical Theatre
And the World Goes 'Round at the Music Theatre International website
And The World Goes Round Music on Masterworks Broadway