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  • Ah, so this is the show that replaced Siegfried & Roy at the Mirage. Is Cirque de Soleil taking over Vegas one cavernous venue at a time? It sure looks that way, and the familiar, dangling acrobats are on full display here. But what separates this show from the other writhing bodies-wrapped-in-fabric extravaganzas is the Beatles songbook. Culled from the group's master tapes to produce an authentic if sometimes bombastic reinvention of the Fab Four, it's entertaining for baby boomers like myself who still pathologically blame Yoko for breaking them up. What I didn't know was how involved the surviving Beatles were in mounting this production in 2006.The storyline traces the Beatles' lives from the London Blitz through the band's founding and then of course, the cultural icon years when their psychedelic and spiritual works overtook their pop hooks and finally gave way to their break-up in 1970. The stage is in the center of the theater, and Jamie W. and I were in the front row being pummeled by windblown sheets, plastic bricks and various paraphernalia coming from the vaunted ceiling. It's all good fun if rather loud. Some of the numbers worked better than others, the least fulfilling being the ones with repetitive acrobatics (for example, bodies jumping onto a phone booth) or uninteresting choreography (the gumboots used on "Lady Madonna"). Few of the moves displayed are on the same level of what you see at "O" or "Mystere", but the familiarity of the music is the draw here. Even so, there are lots of alternate takes used here, as well as snippets of conversations between the band members and - perhaps heresy to purists - "mash-ups" created from elements of several songs. My favorite sight, I have to admit, was the look of resigned sadness on the janitors waiting impatiently for the audience to leave in order for them to sweep up for the next performance. BTW, we were able to get half-price tickets ($75 each) for our front-row seats on the day of the performance by simply asking the concierge what they had left.
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