Around the Beatles
8.2
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.
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Cast
18 people
Paul McCartney
Self
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A Hard Day's Night
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John Lennon
Self
Known for
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Jack Good
Rita Gillespie
The Beatles
Themselves
Barry Cawtheray
George Harrison
Self
Known for
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Ringo Starr
Self
Known for
Caveman
A Hard Day's Night
Millie Small
Self
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Cilla Black
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Rita Gillepsie Director
United States release November 15, 1964 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production Associated-Rediffusion Television
Production
Rediffusion
Production
Associated-Rediffusion Television
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
United Kingdom · May 6, 1964
Theatrical
United States · November 15, 1964
Theatrical
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