Love (Cirque du Soleil)

Love
Logo for Cirque du Soleil's updated The Beatles: Love used from 2016 (the 10th anniversary) to 2024
CompanyCirque du Soleil
GenreContemporary circus
Show typeResident show
Date of premiereJune 30, 2006
Final showJuly 7, 2024
LocationThe Mirage, Las Vegas
Creative team
DirectorDominic Champagne
Artistic guideGilles Ste-Croix
Creation directorChantal Tremblay
Theatre and set designerJean Rabasse
Costume designerPhilippe Guillotel
Music byThe Beatles
Remixed byGeorge Martin
Giles Martin
Lighting designerYves Aucoin
Sound designerJonathan Deans
Dialog editorFrançois Pérusse
ChoreographersDave St-Pierre
Hansel Cereza
Daniel Cola
Makeup designerNathalie Gagné
Projections designerFrancis Laporte
Set, props and puppetsMichael Curry
Patricia Ruel
Rigging designerGuy St-Amour
Other information
Preceded byDelirium (2006)
Succeeded byKoozå (2007)
Official website

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

A joint venture between Cirque and the Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd, it was the first theatrical production with which Apple Corps Ltd. partnered. Love was written and directed by Dominic Champagne. George Martin, producer of nearly all of the Beatles' records, and his son, record producer Giles Martin, were credited as music directors. A soundtrack album of the show was released in November 2006.

On April 10, 2024, Cirque du Soleil announced that the show was ending with a final performance on July 7, Ringo Starr’s 84th birthday. The Mirage will be redeveloped as a Hard Rock Cafe hotel and casino reopening in 2027. The Love Theatre will not be rebuilt in the new hotel, and no plans have been announced to reboot Love elsewhere.[1]

  1. ^ Katsilometes, John (7 July 2024). "'A state of shock': The Beatles' 'Love' bows out after 18 years". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 8 August 2024.