Around the Beatles (1964)

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 shows 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 Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream with Paul McCartney as Pyramus John Lennon as his lover Thisbe George Harrison as Moonshine and Starr as Lion