Prop crew at Beatles “Love” at The Mirage is integral part of the show
May 25, 2012 - 2:43 pm
Props lead Dan Pribison, left, and props technician Brett Geiger use remote controls to guide RC "trains of light" to the props pre-show position following a performance the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012, as props technician Craig Norman, right, holds another prop steady. Pribison and Geiger control the trains from a booth above the stage during the show. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Props technician Jeavon Greenwood fills a "bubble piano" with a special glycerin bubble mixture during the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. Greenwood fills the prop below stage, prior to it being lifted to stage level where bubbles billow from the piano. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Carpenter Clarisa Smith helps rebuild a "brick wall" prop following a scene during a performance of Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. The wall is demolished during the show, then the bricks are swept off the stage into nets in a pit below the stage where crew members sort and reassemble the wall. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Props lead Dan Pribison rolls a large prop wheel off the stage following a performance of Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Props lead Dan Pribison, left, rolls props off the stage following a performance of the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Props lead Dan Pribison, left, and props technician Brett Geiger use remote controls to guide RC "trains of light" to the props pre-show position following a performance the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012, as props technician Craig Norman, right, holds another prop steady. Pribison and Geiger control the trains from a booth above the stage during the show. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Richard Amiss, head of props for the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show, right, trails props technician Brett Geiger, left, and props lead Dan Pribison as the two use remote controls to guide RC "trains of light" to the props pre-show position following a performance the show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. The trains are controlled from a booth above the stage during the show. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Props technician Jeavon Greenwood fills a "bubble piano" with a special glycerin bubble mixture during the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. Greenwood fills the prop below stage, prior to it being lifted to stage level where bubbles billow from the piano. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Props technicians Craig Norman, left, and Renee McHenry reassemble the shell of a Volkswagen Beetle during the post-show reset of the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. The car falls apart during a scene in the show. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Props technician Brett Geiger moves a remote-controlled prop back to its pre-show position following a performance of Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Moray Treadwell as Mr. Piggy, waits on a lift below the stage for a scene change during a performance of the Cirque du Soleil-The Beatles Love show as an aerialist performs high above at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Monday, April 16, 2012. Treadwell stands next to a stage prop, that of a giant broken clock, which is hoisted to stage level via the lift at the end of the aerial sequence. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Moray Treadwell, who plays Mr. Piggy in Cirque du Soleil's "Love," waits on a lift below stage with a giant prop of a broken clock as an aerialist performs high above the stage during the show's opening sequence at the Mirage at 3400 Las Vegas Blvd., South, on Monday, April 16, 2012. Treadwell and the prop are hoisted to stage level via the lift at the end of the sequence. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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The props department at Beatles "Love" at The Mirage ensures that important pieces of the show are in place when needed. They also operate props while they are onstage. Props include 35-foot paper puppets, three Volkswagen Beetles, remote-controlled tricycles, soap bubbles and four of the world’s smallest fog machines.
