Special Screenings of “All Together Now” at CineVegas Film Festival

Posted on 17 June 2008

CineVegas Shows Some Beatles’ LOVE with special screenings of “ALL TOGETHER NOW” at the 10th Annual Festival. The Feature-Length Documentary Chronicles The Making Of The Beatles’ LOVE by Cirque du Soleil.

As part of its tenth anniversary, CineVegas will present two screenings of Adrian Wills’ All Together Now in the Festival’s “Vegas Uncovered” section, a special section of documentaries about Las Vegas. The film details the story behind the unique partnership between The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil that resulted in the creation and launch of LOVE, the stage production still wowing audiences at The Mirage in Las Vegas, and the double Grammy-winning album of the same name.

Screenings will be held at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 18 and at 2 pm on Friday, June 20 at the Brenden Theatres at the Palms Casino Resort.

Tickets to each screening are $10 each and can be purchased online at www.cinevegas. com, by calling 888-8VEGAS8 or at the CineVegas Box Office at the Brenden Theatres at the Palms Casino Resort. Click here for a discount 2-for-1 offer:exclusive-discount-offer-for-cinevegas.pdf

All Together Now faithfully recounts how the LOVE project came into being, born from the personal friendship between George Harrison and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte. George saw how the twin talents of Cirque’s artistry and The Beatles‘ music could be fused into something new and totally original. Wills records early meetings
between the Cirque & Apple Corps Ltd. creative teams, as well as contributions from Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, discussing how The Beatles‘ music can be used in a different way.

The film chronicles the decision to utilize the combined talents of Sir George Martin and his son Giles Martin to produce what became a 90-minute soundscape created from The Beatles‘ multi-track recordings and how this new audio adventure was being quietly worked on in the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, England whilst the first
creative ideas for the show were being formulated in Montreal, Canada. It also includes the first rehearsals at the Mirage Hotel theatre in Las Vegas, which was completely rebuilt with a one-of-a-kind sound system and complex round staging to house the LOVE show.

It wasn’t all “plain-sailing” and there has been no attempt to disguise some of the disagreements that took place along the way regarding how some of the songs would be portrayed visually. These creative differences, a necessary part of the overall process of bringing LOVE to its most vibrant life, illustrate the participants’ love and respect for the music and vision of The Beatles.