The Beatles "Love" Show in Las Vegas

I saw the Beatles "Love" show in in The Mirage Resort in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 8, 2007.

It was quite beautiful and arty.

Most Cirque du Soleil shows are more athletic and gymnastic and tend to feature various "acts." This show was different; more of an ensemble feel, lots of activity going on, lots of ensemble and group dancing, high energy with the occasional trapeze or rope artist or other sorts of things, including solo dancing.

Great sound, great lighting and effects. The show is in the theater that used to be the Siegfried and Roy space. It's in the round and I can tell you that the show uses every cubic inch of the space; every square inch of stage and all the way to the ceiling.

I had front row seats and everyone in the very front section ringing the stage is inside one of the effects; the rest of the house saw the outside, we saw the inside and were part of the show; we were allowed to manipulate part of the set. It must have looked really cool from the outside because it got a huge roar from the crowd when it finished.

The show is considerably longer than the soundtrack; there are other songs not included plus there is some great great great inter-action set pieces featuring projections of actors (in silhouette) portraying the Fabs acting to dialog created by edited-together interview statements, studio banter, maybe even some flexi-disk stuff. You don't see the actors as anything but silhouettes so you aren't distracted by a less-than-look-alike.

There are large video screens around the venue that add video effects and occasionally other screens are dropped from the ceiling showing Shea Stadium clips and other performances.

Both "Something" and "While My Guitar gently Weeps" are very poignant set pieces as well. Sniff sniff (tear? what tear? I wasn't crying! I had something in my eye!). "Help!" is a high energy very fun section of the show with rollerbladers and "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" has a gorgeous starry sky. "Revolution" has hippies and riot cops squaring off on trampolines.

There is even a reference to drinking tea(!).

If it's not the most expensive show in town it's close but both of us really enjoyed it and being front row was quite frankly worth every penny of the $165 per ticket price.