And the World Goes 'Round is a musical revue showcasing the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. The Fantasticks was the longest-running musical in history. ... A revue is a type of theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches that satirize contemporary figures, news, or literature. ... Image:JohnKander. ... Fred Ebb (April 8, 1933 - September 11, 2004) was a musical theatre lyricist. ...

Taking its title from a tune the songwriting team wrote for Liza Minnelli to sing in the Martin Scorsese film, New York, New York, the eclectic collection of love songs, torch songs, and acerbicly witty comic numbers 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. It opened on March 18, 1991 at Manhattan's off-Broadway Westside Theatre, where it ran for 408 performances. The original cast consisted of Karen Ziemba, Robert Cuccioli, Karen Mason, Brenda Pressley, and Jim Walton. 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. Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Martin Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an iconic, critically acclaimed American film director. ... For other uses, see New York, New York (disambiguation). ... Love Songs can mean: Love Songs (The Beatles), a 1977 album Love Songs (Barbra Streisand), a 1983 album Love Songs (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a 1992 album Love Songs (Elton John), a 1995 album Love Songs (Dan Fogelberg), a 1995 album Love Songs (Kenny Rogers), a 1997 album Love Songs (Michael... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ... Susan Stroman (born October 17, 1954 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a Broadway director, choreographer, and performer. ... Libretto can also refer to a sub-notebook PC manufactured by Toshiba. ... Steel Pier is a musical written by the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb. ... Chicago is a musical, first performed in 1975, based on the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Karen Ziemba is an American musical theatre actress known for her work in several Broadway stage productions. ... Robert Cuccioli (born May 3, 1958) is an American actor and singer born in Hempstead, New York. ... Marin Mazzie (born October 9, 1960) is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theater. ... Born Lucille Wadler in New York City on December 16, 1900, Lucille Lortel was originally an actress in the 1920s (she once recollected comparing breast sizes with Helen Hayes), who went on to become an Off-Broadway theater producer and empresaria with the help of a wealthy husband. ... Begun during the 1949-1950 theater season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway. ... The Drama Desk Awards are awards given by the organization Drama Desk to honor New York City theater performers, both in Broadway shows but also off-Broadway as well. ...

An original cast recording was released by RCA Records. A cast recording or original cast recording is a recording of a musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience. ... RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. ...

The following year, Ziemba, Blum, and Mazzie were joined by John Ruess and Shelley Dickinson for a 10-month 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. The Happy Time is a 1952 movie directed by the award-winning director Richard Fleischer. ... The Rink is the tenth musical written by the composer/lyricist team John Kander and Fred Ebb, the creators of both Cabaret and Chicago. ... The Act is a Broadway musical by the writing team of Kander and Ebb with a book by George Furth. ... Flora the Red Menace is a 1965 musical by Kander and Ebb starring Liza Minnelli in the title role. ... Kiss of the Spider Woman is a 1993 Broadway musical written by John Kander and Fred Ebb with book by Terrence McNally. ...

Throughout the years the revue has been staged by regional and community theatre groups and as a fringe theatre production in London. Regional theatres (also called resident theatres) in the United States are professional theatre companies outside of New York City that produce their own seasons. ... It has been suggested that Amateur theatre be merged into this article or section. ... Fringe theatre is a term used to describe alternative theatre, or entertainment not of the mainstream. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Cast recording song list

• The World Goes 'Round
• An English Teacher
• Coffee in a Cardboard Cup
• Colored Lights
• Sara Lee
• Arthur in the Afternoon
• My Coloring Book
• I Don't Remember You
• Sometimes a Day Goes By
• All That Jazz
• Mr. Cellophane
• There Goes the Ball Game
• How Lucky Can You Get
• Marry Me
• A Quiet Thing
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• The Grass is Always Greener
• We Can Make It
• Maybe This Time
• Isn't This Better?
• Money, Money
• Cabaret
• New York, New York

External links

• Lortel Archives listing
• New York Times review