"Around the World in Eighty Days" based on the Jules Verne novel and adapted for the stage by Michael d’Ennery, was another Parisian import.To mount the show in the United States, the brothers re-created the scenery and costumes from the Paris production as precisely as possible, and hired all the cast and crew members, except for the principal speaking roles, from the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, where the original production was performed.