The music of The Beatles can sound great anywhere, and can fit in well just about wherever you put it. Now Cirque du Soleil has come together with the classic music of The Beatles with The Beatles: Love.
Cirque du Soleil are from Canada, and the name means Circus of the Sun, and it was formed in 1984 by Guy Laliberte and Daniel Gauthier, who were both former street performers. Their 1984 road tour was a big hit, and they've been performing and putting on shows, growing bigger and better, ever since (Cirque du Soleil has 4,000 people helping bring the organization to life).
Cirque du Soleil eventually became a permanent show in Vegas, which reportedly plays to 9,000 fans a night, which has been estimated to be 5% of tourists coming in to Vegas, and an estimated 90 million people all over the world have seen Cirque du Soleil shows in the company's history.
Cirque du Soleil has its own theater at The Mirage that was torn out and completely rebuilt especially for their own shows. The furthest show away from the stage is only 98 feet, making Cirque du Soleil a very up close and personal experience for those who come to see it.
At The Mirage, you see Cirque du Soleil in 360 degree seating, and the show also has 100-foot high definition video screens, and surround sound with speakers in everyone's seats.
Unlike your average, everyday Circus, Cirque du Soleil's shows are based on stories and themes, hence The Beatles: Love. Putting together the music for the show, Sir George Martin, the legendary producer of The Beatles who was often considered 'the fifth Beatle,' has worked off the original Beatles master-tapes for the Cirque du Soleil shows with his son Giles Martin.
Sir Martin and son spent two years in Abbey Road Studios working on what would be the soundtrack for The Beatles: Love, which includes twenty-five Beatles songs, as well as many fragments of their music.
The Beatles: Love is also the first time The Beatles organization has gone into a major theatrical partnership, and what helped cinch the deal is the founder of Guy Lalibert, and the late George Harrison, were friends and mutual fans of each other's work.
The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil are two wonderful forms of entertainment that go great together. As one critic has written, 'I have told friends that any of Cirque du Soleil's shows represent the best entertainment for your dollar to be found anywhere in the world'¦And trust me, you have NEVER heard The Beatles like this before.'
Variety has called The Beatles: Love 'an ambitious blend of Beatles biography and lyrical interpretation'¦a graceful and elegant marriage of movement and song that reinforces the greatness of the music created by the Beatles in the 1960s.'
The Beatles: Love also offers 'Truly great music used in a context that challenges not only the creators and performers, but the listeners as well.' The music of The Beatles: Love uses The Beatles' music 'as no production, be it for stage or film, has ever done before.'