With Ringo Starr’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the music world again relived and relearned the band that revolutionized pop music. That’s always a good time to revisit Cirque du Soleil’s surrealist tribute The Beatles LOVE, which celebrates its ninth anniversary this week. Starr’s persona permeates the entire production, from its innocent everyman and childlike characters to his featured vocal on (“Octopus’s Garden”) to the drums that drive the cast to jubilant expression early in the show (“Get Back”) or speak for themselves (his solo in “The End”).

Ringo’s percussive punctuations are also an integral part of “A Day in the Life,” a song by John Lennon that Cirque du Soleil uses to convey Lennon’s destiny-shaping loss of his mother Julia, who died when he was 17.

The Beatles LOVE’s “Julia” is a scarlet-clad angel, played by strap-act acrobat Sasha Harrington, who late in the show descends from above the circular stage to visit a dreaming orphan. Harrington’s act, one of the more graceful turns in the production, embodies the love and loss fatherless Lennon felt for the woman who encouraged his musical inclinations as well as his sense of humor and rebelliousness.

Like many of the cast members, the Southern California native was a Beatles fan for a long time before joining the show. Harrington’s experience playing a real-life character crucial to the band’s backstory changed her perception of the Beatles and way of relating to their music. “I’ve always been a fan of their music, but I didn’t know a lot of the background stories of their songs and of them as people the way that I do now,” she says. “My parents introduced me to them. They were kind of teenagers when the Beatles first exploded. Actually, ‘A Day in the Life’ was my favorite song. It was a coincidence that I started doing an act to that song.”

Being Julia for Cirque du Soleil requires a certain dedication. A day in the life of Harrington likely includes strap work, performing or not. “I have a pretty normal schedule, normal life,” says Harrington. “I’m lucky that my passion also happens to be what I do for work. I spend a lot of my free time doing straps, but I work on a lot of ideas that aren’t necessarily used in the show. I think doing a physically demanding job is a 24/7 thing to maintain a kind of calm and confidence in my brain that’s necessary to be a strong performer.”

Harrington, who joined The Beatles LOVE two years ago, actually first appears in an early tableau scene, floating in sight of the audience to the gentle fingerpicked arpeggios of “Julia,” Lennon’s tribute to his mother from the White Album. “I didn’t know how influenced John was by her,” says Harrington. “I didn’t know anything about their relationship with her or how she died. All of those things influenced him in his life and his music quite a bit, and I learned about all of that once I came to LOVE.”

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