Cirque du Soleil: Love
January 7, 2008 (10 p.m.)
The Mirage, Las Vegas, Nevada

I’ve been in Las Vegas for the last four days touring the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), checking out the gizmos and gadgets, hearing the spiel from fellow PR flaks like me and more importantly, taking lots of photos and video of both music-related and just-for-fun gadgets I thought would be relevant to you, my faithful readers.

However, I’ve averaged about 3.5 hours of sleep every night and haven’t had a single second to pee - let alone develop, format and post all of this fantastic content for you. but I did manage to pull some Cirque pictures off my camera phone. I was told to stop taking photos only after snapping these.

Last night we saw the “re-produced and re-imagined” Beatles show Cirque du Soleil: Love at The Mirage. No surprise — this is Vegas, after all — it was jaw-dropping awesome.

In November I positively reviewed Cirque du Soleil’s KÀ, but after seeing both, I have much more LOVE to give love. Chronicling the band’s career through their music and interpretive acrobatics, Love let the timeless music do the story telling as Lucy in the Sky, Eleanor Rigby, Lady Madonna and Mr. Kite danced, pranced and romanced the crowd. And it’s not just the giant commemorative beer talking.

Quite honestly, I’m not a big fan of Cirque stuff. Not only is it strange (although I generally like strange), it’s just not something I would plunk down $165/ticket on in lieu of say… a Led Zeppelin Reunion show… I don’t even like spending more than $10 on a car wash, let alone an interpretive dance in Sin City.

However, this show is special. It truly brought the songs we all know by heart to life and the songs only my pal Josh Purdy knows by heart (”Octopus’s Garden) to a whole…nother…level.

Highly recommended, and I’d go again tonight if my car wasn’t so dirty.