Take a ride with this story about one of the greatest trips ever taken.
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"Around the World in 80 Days," the tale of a man who sets out to conquer the earth with timetables, might be the quintessential white-dude-loosens-up-in-foreign-lands story. In Laura Eason's new adaptation for Lookingglass, the clubby, clockwork world of Phineas Bogg (the marvelous Philip Smith) is both more compelling and somehow more exotic than the fleeting glimpses given of India and Japan. There are many winning moments, mostly involving Bogg's proclivities and the mustache-harrumphing antics of his tweedy friends, but the play as a whole feels choppy. It's a plod when it needs to be a gallop.
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