Around the Beatles

Name: Around the Beatles
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1964
Duration: 51 min
Cast: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Millie Small

1964

51min

Documentary

Music

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Overview

The show opens on an image of the Globe Theatre, with Ringo Starr unfurling a flag with the legend "Around The Beatles". The studio setting is arranged as a theater in the round, (hence the show's name) echoing the seating arrangement of the Globe. The opening act is a humorous rendition of the "play within a play", Pyramus and Thisbe (Act V, Scene I) from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Paul McCartney as Pyramus, John Lennon as his lover Thisbe, George Harrison as Moonshine, and Starr as Lion.