Released:
1964-05-06

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.

Director:
Rita Gillepsie

Runtime:
0h 51min

Genre:
Documentary, Music

• Cast:
• 
  Paul McCartney
  as
  Self
• 
  John Lennon
  as
  Self
• 
  George Harrison
  as
  Self
• 
  Ringo Starr
  as
  Self
• 
  Millie Small
  as
  Self