Cirque du Soleil: A Beatles Love-In From Las Vegas to Eternity
by JOHN ROCKWELL for the New York Times

"Love" tells us many things — about the evolution of the Beatles in the pantheon of cultural icons, about the clashing contentions of the preservationists and the evolutionists among Beatles fans, and perhaps above all, about the continuing transformation of the Cirque du Soleil format.

published: July 10, 2006

Turn off your mind, relax...
by JAMES McNAIR for the Independent

Wisely, Cirque's treatment avoids chronological narrative and literal interpretation of Beatles songs. Instead, they opt for "a timeless, three-dimensional experience", their mostly frenetic, often surrealist production alluding to Beatles events such as the 1964 landing at JFK airport, and their final roof-top concert at Savile Row, London. As The Martins put it at one of the press conferences, "This is not a standard musical a làMamma Mia!"

published: July 5, 2006