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01/07/2007: "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
6,500 speakers including three in each seat and even from the balcony, you feel like you are in the middle of it. So the greatest sound system, pumping out the greatest music, all choreographed to acrobatic stunts and surrealistic video. Screens on the walls and four coming down from the ceiling showed psychedelic images and pictures of the boys from Liverpool. Dancers and acrobats entered and exited from the ceiling, the floor and the sides of the small intimate stage. This is Cirque Du Soleil’s interpretation of the music by the Beatles called LOVE.
Nick and I got a chance to join in on the LOVE spectacle on Friday night at the Mirage in Las Vegas. It was a wonderful show that sucks you in on the first notes and doesn’t let go until the end. Of course, it helps to be big Beatles fans. If you haven’t picked up the album, do so. It is a tasteful remix of many classics digitally remastered taking you off guard on songs you thought you knew so well.
The show lasted about an hour and forty-five minutes. It had the amazing acrobatics that you come to expect from Cirque Du Soleil but with songs that you know well. There was also some great technology that provided wild special effects. At one point, a lone bed on stage had a sheet pulled from it that continued out in all directions in billowing waves pulled out to cover the audience in the lower seats. From our balcony seats, it looked like the bed floated on a cloud for a while before it ducked under the stage whipping the sheet with it. We kept looking for “a hog’s head of real fire.”
They are some of the toughest tickets to get, but at $100+ each, we highly recommend it next time you go.
