The Mersey flows in Mexico

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The only thing acid trips and school productions usually have in common is they go on way too long.

But students of Colegio Williams, a private Mexico City prep school that taught Octavio Paz a thing or two, deftly fused both in a show Tuesday night that transcended the tedium of amateur performance while avoiding any nasty emergency-room freak-outs.

“With a Little Help From My Friends,” was ostensibly a tribute to the Beatles, their music, lyrics and 1960s love-love-love philosophy. Students also honed their English—for example, taming Spanish accents for live solos of “Nowhere Man” and “Imagine.”

The treat for anyone who still remembers the ‘60s was seeing kids having fun with Beatles songs while dressed as clowns, jugglers, bobbies, gangsters, punks, fairies, magicians, hippies, demons and cellophane flowers. Each tune featured an elaborate performance that some of the parents might have once described as pretty trippy.

Pix to be posted Friday at www.colegiowilliams.edu.mx

Posted by Sam Enriquez in Mexico City