Beatles' Vegas show opens

The first Beatles-sanctioned stage-show, which features the group's music and Cirque du Soleil performers, opened in Las Vegas.

The show took five years to come to fruition and resides in a 2,000-seat theater at the Mirage Hotel.

"We wanted to make sure there are enough good, solid hit songs in the show but we didn't want it to be a catalog of 'best ofs'. We also wanted to put in some interesting and not well-known Beatles music and use fragments of songs," Sir George Martin told Reuters. Martin worked on every Beatle album except "Let it Be."

High wire acrobats, trampoline artists and other exotic circus stunts are preformed to a catalog of Beatle songs including, "Yesterday" and "Come Together."

"The last thing we wanted to create was a retrospective or a tribute show," Giles Martin said.

The idea for the stage show first came to George Harrison shortly before his death. Sir Paul McCartney has worked closely with the production.