INTERVIEW /// “Erich Van Tourneau – Takin’ Care of Business”

Cirquefascination: "Cirque du Soleil was quick to realize, with the critical and financial success of The Beatles Love, that it could expand its stable of productions beyond ideas and characters generated exclusively in-house. Many of the lessons learned during the creation of the Beatles project would be applied to its next collaborative endeavor – a show based on the life and work of The King Of Rock And Roll, Elvis Presley. But while the creative thrust of the Fab Four show – illustrating the life and times that inspired the Beatles along with bringing the characters from their songs to life – worked well for that show, it would not work as well with Presley.