Cirque’s Documentary on the Beatles “Love”

“All Together Now” finally made its way into the “centrally isolated” town of Ithaca, New York this past week for a showing of the film that chronicles the making of Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles show “Love.” Though the DVD has been out for a month and the Las Vegas staple has been on the stage for even more months, the project might never have seen fruition in the small town if it weren’t for the Ithaca Motion Picture Project. Thanks to that and director Adrian Wills and producer Martin Bolduc, who joined the stage after the production to answer questions.  He congratulated Sir Paul McCarthy on the spectacular job he did when in the Beatles. Though the Counter Punch doesn’t really feel like there is enough focus on how the Beatles actual songbook changed the way the world listened to music, nor exactly how that story got to the point of the stage, it still filled the audience members with a sense of joy when the story “All Together Now” was told. “The film attempts to inject a sense of urgency into the proceedings with the intermittent titles that tick down inexorably towards the deadline of the opening of the show in Vegas: “300 Days until Premier”; “200 Days” etc.” Now that show is here and the video to prove it as well.

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