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Around the Beatles

0.0 115 mins Documentary   Music   1964
Rediffusion  
Director(s): Rita Gillepsie

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.

Casts of Around the Beatles

Paul McCartney

as Self

John Lennon

as Self

George Harrison

as Self

Ringo Starr

as Self

Millie Small

as Self

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