Beatles 'Love' is ending. Ringo Starr says the show is 'worth seeing'
For 18 years, all Cirque du Soleil needed was "Love." But in a few weeks, the kaleidoscopic fever dream known as “The Beatles Love by Cirque du Soleil” will go dark on the Las Vegas Strip.
No more skate ramps and curlicue airborne tricks to imbue “Help!” with the joviality to match the music (if not the lyrics).
No more graceful trapeze routines to the heart-fluttering “Something.” No more venue-sized bedsheet to appear out of nowhere, flap over the heads of the audience and get sucked into the vortex of the stage while the mashup of “Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows” envelops your eardrums, inviting striking sensory overload.
The Beatles' "Help" is performed with a tricky roller skating routine in Cirque du Soleil's "Love."
The end of Cirque’s groundbreaking production – it was the first to feature all prerecorded music and fixate on a singular music act – is July 6. A private performance will take place July 7, and considering the opening of “Love” on June 30, 2006 attracted Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Julian Lennon, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison and Dhani Harrison among other VIPs, odds for prestigious sightings are high.
Endings are emotionally turbulent, and for the cast, crew, creative team and fans of “Love,” this finale triggers an ache.
Source: usatoday.com
