SBCC Theatre Group takes the audience around the world in a mediocre show that, despite great singers, fails to keep the audience engaged.

Director Rick Mokler decided to do a musical revue of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s many famous musical songs. The first show produced at the Garvin Theater was the musical “Cabaret,” also by Kander and Ebb.

Unfortunately, the only thing that really keeps this semester’s musical revue going is the cast’s obvious talent. The show gets stuck in a successful, but easily forgettable model.

Katie Thatcher opens the two-hour show with the song “And the World Goes ‘Round” from the musical “New York, New York.” A four-man band in the background plays the song’s slow tune as the rest of the cast joins Thatcher on stage.

They all move on to “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup” from the musical “70, Girls, 70.” While the projection of a Starbucks logo is thrown on the curtain on stage, the actors run around with caffeine-craving bodies, screaming for coffee.

This is, no doubt, the most successful song of the evening.

Cheri Steinkellner, who performed in “Grease Nat’l Tour,” “Funny Girl” and “Godspell” in the 1980s, presents some of the funniest songs in the show. Whether it is Steinkellner’s amusing body language, or her apparent talent, Steinkellner succeeds in performing the show’s few scenes that come the closest to actually performing sketches in the spirit of musical revues.

Jordan Baum shows that he is definitely an entertaining, talented actor in his solo “Mister Cellophane,” also from “Chicago.” With tears in his eyes and a spotlight that refuses to follow him, Baum proves that he also has a strong voice when he sings: “Cellophane, Mister Cellophane, should have been my name.”

Act II opens with the entire cast on stage, performing the song “Ring them Bells” from the musical “Liza with a ‘Z’.”

A couple of slow songs follow, leaving the audience in an unnecessary doze.

Kate Brody-Adams and Matthew Elszy do a great job in their interpretation of “Money, Money” from “Cabaret,” which originally starred Liza Minnelli. However, the 13 other songs in Act II don’t really serve a purpose. The singing is great, but the songs appear to have been chosen solely because they exist, and after three “And the World Goes ‘Round” crossovers, this seems like a never-ending show. 

The show does have an ending, though, and a great one at that.

The lyrics, “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere, its up to you-New York, New York,” from Frank Sinatra’s famous musical title song “New York, New York.” fill the Garvin Theater in French, Japanese, German and Swedish, proving that the world truly goes ’round.