The right group at the right time

The music of The Beatles will be brought to life by The Fab Four as they take the stage at Green Bay’s Meyer Theatre on Friday, Nov. 15, in a show following the career of The Beatles and featuring their most popular songs.

“The show starts with The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show and takes you all through their career,” said George Trullinger, who plays Ed Sullivan in the show. “In many ways, it’s the soundtrack of our lives. The show takes you through the early years — songs from the Sgt. Pepper album — and then through the later years with some audience favorites. By the second song, the audience is clapping and singing along and it’s really a terrific, note-for-note recreation of The Beatles.”

The accuracy of the recreation, Trullinger said, extends into every part of the show.

“The costuming and the instruments are correct, plus the sound arrangements,” he said. “These guys are incredible Beatles fans themselves.”
Trullinger said The Fab Four’s performances are much more than a concert, with incredible attention to detail paid to every element of the show.
“When you look at it in the context of a show, there’s multimedia and lighting, all of the instruments and just the four guys that transform themselves like actors — there’s an element of theater,” he said. “They look and sound and play just like The Beatles. I think the whole visual package is what really makes an impact on the audience.”

The Fab Four hopes to recreate the effect The Beatles once had on audiences as they took America by storm.

“The Beatles made such an impact,” Trullinger said. “They were the right group at the right time. Not to mention, they had the incredible songwriting team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They came along at a time when America was stunned and shocked because of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. I think that America and the world needed something to shock them out of that horrible nightmare. Kennedy’s assassination was in November of ‘63 and The Beatles came on the scene in February of ‘64 and they’re still incredibly popular today.”

Thanks to that continued popularity, Trullinger said The Fab Four show is meant to be enjoyed by everyone.

“It truly is an all-ages show,” he said. “It isn’t just for people who like music of the ‘60s. We get you kids all the way up to senior citizens that love this music.

The message of most of The Beatles’ songs was love and peace. They say when times are tough, that’s when people need entertainment the most. The Fab Four bring the entertainment and bring the audience together. It doesn’t matter what you like or how old you are by the end of the evening. People walk away from the show with great memories and a feeling that we were all together, even for just a brief period of time.”

Tickets for Friday’s performance are still available at meyertheatre.org.