Mark Farrell

Jules Verne’s characters may have taken the better part of three months to circumnavigate the globe, but on that same journey at the Laguna Playhouse, time flies because we’re having fun. “Around the World in 80 Days,” Verne’s famed 19th century novel, given the silver screen treatment a half-century ago by showman Michael Todd, is now a stage production — and a jolly one — re-imagined by playwright Mark...

Jules Verne’s characters may have taken the better part of three months to circumnavigate the globe, but on that same journey at the Laguna Playhouse, time flies because we’re having fun. “Around the World in 80 Days,” Verne’s famed 19th century novel, given the silver screen treatment a half-century ago by showman Michael Todd, is now a stage production — and a jolly one — re-imagined by playwright Mark...