LOVE (Cirque du Soleil)

Love
Logo for Cirque du Soleil's The Beatles: Love
Company	Cirque du Soleil
Genre	Contemporary circus
Show type	Resident show
Date of premiere	June 30, 2006
Location	The Mirage, Las Vegas
Creative team
Director	Dominic Champagne
Artistic guide	Gilles Ste-Croix
Creation director	Chantal Tremblay
Theatre and set designer	Jean Rabasse
Costume designer	Philippe Guillotel
Music by	The Beatles
Remixed by	Sir George Martin Giles Martin
Lighting designer	Yves Aucoin
Sound designer	Jonathan Deans
Dialog editor	François Pérusse
Choreographers	Dave St-Pierre Hansel Cereza Daniel Cola
Makeup designer	Nathalie Gagné
Projections designer	Francis Laporte
Set, props and puppets	Michael Curry Patricia Ruel
Rigging designer	Guy St-Amour
Other information
Preceded by	Delirium (2006)
Succeeded by	Koozå (2007)
Official website

Love is a 2006 theatrical production by Cirque du Soleil which combines the re-produced and re-imagined music of the Beatles with an interpretive, circus-based artistic and athletic stage performance. The show plays at a specially built theatre at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

A joint venture between Cirque and the Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd, it is the first theatrical production that Apple Corps Ltd. has partnered in. Love is written and directed by Dominic Champagne. Music directors are Sir George Martin, producer of nearly all of the Beatles' records, and his son, record producer Giles Martin. A soundtrack album of the show was released in November 2006.

The project arose from discussions in 2000 between George Harrison and his friend Guy Laliberté, one of Cirque's founders. Three years of negotiations between surviving members of the Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, The Beatles widows Olivia Harrison (representing George Harrison) and Yoko Ono (representing John Lennon), the Beatles' holding company Apple Corps Ltd. and the MGM Mirage culminated in an agreement.

The first executive producer was Neil Aspinall, then-manager of Apple Corps Ltd. Dominic Champagne shares the show concept creator credit with Gilles Ste-Croix (a founder of Cirque), who is also credited as the director of creation. The creation director is Chantal Tremblay. Tickets went on sale April 19, 2006. Preview performances ran from June 2 to June 29. During these shows, including June 16 and June 17 which were attended by McCartney, changes were made nightly based on audience reaction, cutting or adding sections to add polish. In attendance at the gala opening on June 30 were McCartney, Starr, Ono, Cynthia Lennon, Julian Lennon, Olivia and Dhani Harrison, and Sir George Martin. It was the biggest reunion of the Beatles' 'family' since the band's breakup. At the end of the show, McCartney, Starr, Olivia, Ono and Martin went on stage. McCartney requested the crowd, "Just one special round of applause, for John and George!"