Around the Beatles

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.