Visitors walk past the new Revolution Lounge at The Mirage, created in conjunction with Cirque du Soleil's Beatles show, "Love." Photos by Ralph Fountain. Revolution Lounge at The Mirage offers many references Beatles fans are sure to appreciate, but is designed for a wider audience. Revolution Lounge at The Mirage features four portholes, each representing a different Beatle.

The place is awash in swirling, swooshing colors, like a big box of crayons come to life.

Entering Revolution, the svelte, enveloping new lounge at The Mirage, created in conjunction with Cirque du Soleil's Beatles show, "Love," is akin to getting a bear hug from a rainbow.

The large, contoured room, which brims with rounded crescents and brightly hued images dancing across the walls, is a study in refracted light, a chance to get a taste of the psychedelic experience without the illicit substances.

"This is the LSD ceiling," says Bill Hillman, director of operations and business development for Revolution, as he gazes up at a constellation of thousands of glass squares suspended from the rafters. "Reminiscent of the song 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,' there's 30,000 diacrylic pieces of glass that shine like diamonds."

As Hillman alludes to, Revolution contains plenty of nods to the Beatles, albeit mostly veiled ones.

Behind the bar, on a large projection wall studded with art installation pieces, there are four portholes loosely suggestive of the band's "Yellow Submarine" period, with each porthole representing a different Beatle.

But like many facets of this club, it's a reference that's open to interpretation.

"This was never intended to be a Beatles memorabilia kind of place -- the same way that the show isn't a Beatles memorabilia show," Hillman says, referencing "Love." "Cirque du Soleil is really great at artistic interpretation of an idea or a concept and then presenting it. This lounge is no different."

Designed by Jean-Francois Bouchard, director of creation for Cirque du Soleil, along with a Montreal architect, Revolution is the first lounge associated with the five Cirque shows in town. Well-appointed with pink bean bags, curvy white loveseats and glimmering metallic curtains, the club is flush with the kind of eye-popping flourishes that have come to define Cirque productions.

Perhaps Revolution's most novel embellishment is its clutch of interactive tables, where patrons can take an ashtray or a cocktail glass and sketch designs on the tabletop from a series of different motifs projected onto the glass, from squirming jellyfish to fluttering butterflies.

The images are then projected on a large column in the middle of the room.

"This was inspired by a graffiti wall that Jean-Francois saw in London when he went to visit Apple Studios on Abbey Road, right at the intersection where the famous album cover was shot," Hillman says as he glances at the projection pillar in the center of the club. "Outside the frame of that shot, there's a wall, where, for decades, people have been writing, 'I love the Beatles' and 'Paul's My Favorite.' Jean-Francois saw that and thought that it would be cool for us to have some type of way to do that here in the lounge."

The drinks fit the theme of the club as well, with cocktails such as the English Breakfast, which is made with orange marmalade, and the Strawberry Fields.

Revolution, which will have a grand opening on Thursday, is complemented by the Abbey Road Bar, a cozy nook checkered with white couches and a floor painted to look like the famed Abbey Road crosswalk. Beatles songs, covers and remixes are played in the bar and in Revolution until 10 p.m., after which the lounge alternates between a variety of sounds, from house and electro to Brit rock, depending on the night.

Taken together, Abbey Road and Revolution will probably appeal to Beatles enthusiasts, but they're also aiming for those who don't necessarily know all the words to "Here Comes the Sun" by heart.

"The Beatles references are here, there's plenty of them, but it's really subtle," Hillman explains. "If you're looking for them, you can find them. If you're not looking for them, if you have no interest in it, then you're sure to be amused by everything else that's going on here."