Gallery: On Las Vegas Stages, Daring Feats of Engineering Steal the Show

credit Photograph by Tomas MuscionicoAerialists are suspended by wire high above the stage in Love, the Cirque du Soleil show set to Beatles music. credit Photograph by Tomasz RossaThe 1.1 million-gallon "stage" for Le Rêve enables effects like the "wedding cake," for which a 17-foot-high multilevel platform rises from the water. credit Photograph by Tony […]


credit Photograph by Tomas Muscionico
Aerialists are suspended by wire high above the stage in Love, the Cirque du Soleil show set to Beatles music.

credit Photograph by Tomasz Rossa

The 1.1 million-gallon "stage" for Le Rêve enables effects like the "wedding cake," for which a 17-foot-high multilevel platform rises from the water.

credit Photograph by Tony Quirk
The lifts embedded in the Love stage rise and fall to move scenery pieces like foam rubber chimneys and an enormous clock face.