Decapitate you. Your life is in danger. so. Thro, one. Siegfrioy we ke sptacle. Eyere rg tck c. Were going to go bam, bam, bam. Energy, movement, pyrotechnics, lighting, dancers, costuming. How can i do a show . There is no script. I say, we are the script people came because they were dazzled by the illusions. But the real stars of this act werehenimals. Particularly the tigers. These majestic, potentially lethal animals were feet away from audience members with nothing in between them. These animals were right on top of the audience. Theres a chance for an incident. And on the night of october the 3rd of 03, there was an incident. The one thing that is clear, that night changed Siegfried Roy forever. We need paramedics. Siegfried and roy theater. This huge tiger opens his mouth and grabs roy by the neck. Roy is screaming. Aah, aah. Grabbed him by the throat, just walked offstage. He has roy completely at his mercy. I thought we had heard the whole story, until this. Siegfried reacts to a stunning new version of events. It sounds a little strange. I never felt love in my life. Only on stage. The applause, the acceptance. Youve been in each others lives for 50 years. 5 years. At does he mean to you . All this years we are together, what we achieved, i said, i thank you very much, and i think i said, i love you. So and he says, if i would have the do it again, i would do everything again the same way. I regret nothing. Siegfried roy are the ultimate showmen. They set vegas on fire. Siegfried roy had been the single most successful entertainment attraction in las vegas history by orders of magnitude. 30 years, 48 weeks a year, capacity business. Siegfried is a magician that comes along once in a generation. Always designing and creating new illusions, magical feats that had never been tried before. When i see the wonderment in the eyes of the audience, and then the performer and audience became one, its very gratifying. Roy is the big animal lover. Thats what brings him to life. Roy was always fearless. He had no fear of living, no fear of loving, and no fear of giving. The scary element is the fundamental to it. Siegfried and roy with penguins would not work, right . You need the fear thats inherent in the lives of tigers being on stage. Roy was always bigger than life. True magic begins thats reverenced for the circle of creation. Siegfried is the one who has to say, how is this going to work . Im right here, im right here. Siegfried often says that he by himself would be not enough. Its never enough and roy by himself would be too much. I get that good feel, its never enough but, to me, its like thunder and lightning. The Siegfried Roy story is the American Dream story. Its pretty inspiring to think that you can come literally from nothing. It drops, bum bum bum. One, two, three, four. To become the most successful live entertainers in the history of las vegas. I got it going on i got it going on their home was a lavish, overthetop, luxurious compound in which you saw tigers and lions roaming freely. It started as one house on an ordinary road in las vegas, and grew until they owned every house on the block and turned it into the jungle palace. I got it, i got it i got it going on acres of land for the animals to roam in and play in. And all the animals were in the Swimming Pool, just swimming happily along. There were waterfalls and gold fixtures. It was a little bit flashy and a little bit over the top, but, you know, these are master showmen, and their home should reflect their persona. They had come aony. These are two men who, as little boys, grew up in postworld war ii germany. Our fathers went into the war as one person and they came back as a different. So, they found their outlet in alcohol. We never had attention. I never remembered my father even talked to me. I just was there. When siegfried figured out how to do his first magic trick which was making a coin disappear, his father for the first time looked up and acknowledged him. He said to me, how did you do that . And that was i think the three words that changed my life. My life became magic, and magic became my life. Like entertainers and actors, a magician is often born from insecurities, lack of attention, and the need to be loved. Each one found a different outlet to escape. As his source of love, roy turned to animals. He really developed his first real love affair with an animal at the bremen zoo with a cheetah named chico. He would imitate his purring sounds, and gradually over time, they were on a wavelength and a bond. It was when we began to delve into our childhoods that we understood there was a powerful link between our reality and our magic. For our reality, even at its darkest, turns out to be the source of our magic. The two came up with this autobiographical film about their lives and their beginnings. And according to siegfried, things changed for him when he found this money on the street and was able to buy his very first magic book. The magic world he yearned to master would open itself to him. Theyre parables. What they did with their origin stories, create this larger than life thing that happened to them that was the impetus for everything that happened later. So these two boys would finally meet in 1959. They were both working onboard the bremen, which was a luxury liner that would cross the atlantic from germany to the united states. I became a first class steward, and the captain found out there is a steward who does some magic. So, one day roy comes here and he helped me. And . And afterwards, i wanted to find out how he liked it. The great siegfried. What a great performance i gave. And he was not very impressed. I asked him, well, if you can make a rabbit disappear, how about making a cheetah disappear . I said, in magic anything is possible. He calls me over into his cabin, on the boat . On the boat. He had snuck chico onboard and was hiding him in his cabin. We put him into the act. We had a standing ovation. Your act was born. And i thought, in show business you dont have to be only good, you have to be different, and roy brought the difference. They left the ship and they began touring throughout europe. Press my luck they were a hit. People began to fall in love with the cheetah, chico. They had something that nobody else had shown before. On an eightday trip Siegfried Roy make their way to monaco where they begin doing their act in a big way. In monaco, monte carlo its capital, is a big hotspot. Grace kelly has married prince rainier, and so its a hotspot for a lot of the International Stars of the time. They were asked to perform for the annual gala. This was the first time they had really performed in front of stars. Theres cary grant and theres sophia loren and theres frank sinatra. And the next day, the headline was, Siegfried Roy, the new kings of monte carlo. Siegfried roy started with a dream, our dreams became the reality, and the reality became our life. Their sights were on bigger things, and as roy once said, if you wanna be the pope, you go to rome, but if you want to be an entertainer you got to go to vegas. Feeling good Something Like i knew it could there we coming, young little immigrants coming with the back of dreams to america and believing, oh, this is the land of opportunities. The owners of the hotel looked at them and said, tell us that you sing. Tell us that you dance. Tell us that you juggle. But dont tell us that you do magic, because magic does not work in this town. People came because they were dazzled by the illusions, but the real stars of this act were the animals. 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It was strictly a place to lure adults, mostly men, to come in and watch a show and then go out and gamble. What you think of is essentially the rat pack era in the 60s. You think of frank and sammy and dean. The sun was shining hold it. Ing the ringadingding vegas, the oceans eleven vegas. There were lots of shows featuring women with huge feathers on their heads and not a lot else on their body. Siegfried and roy were two very good looking guys who were illusionists with animals. It didnt fit into the niche of las vegas. So they really had to work incredibly hard to make themselves special. Give me one sentence that describes your relationship with roy. Roy had these dreams and i had the ideas. His dreams were always so big but we made the dreams become a reality. They started out with one cheetah, and they start adding animals to their show. That was their shtick. That was their thing. They developed something different. People love the wild animals and people love magic. The moment i step on stage, the pleasure is there. Its always a high. You watch films of magicians from back in the 30s and 40s, much slower acts. Siegfried and roy came along and decided were gonna go, bam, bam, bam. I think everything to them was about, how do you create as much wonder as possible . And to create the largest spectacle that was the most compelling experience so that you as an audience member couldnt possibly look away. Their magic tricks and their illusions were centuries old, but they added such grandeur and majesty to them that they appeared new. Wowing audiences everywhere. These guys had energy personified. And they loved it. Lynette chappelle, a trained ballerina. Beautiful blonde. And they brought her into the act. Sometimes i disappeared and an animal appeared. I was sawed in half twice nightly, and sometimes three times a night. They had big, big dreams. They worked their way from resort to resort. Every show is a challenge. I always say after all these years, never had a perfect show. Siegfried roy were working constantly. They never once took a break. The stress was toxic. It was not easy. That was not an easy life. It wasnt all a bed of roses. Siegfried, at one point, the stress of putting on the show night after night without break, really started to wear on him. The obstacles are all that i see. Magic starts with a fantasy, but once i have an idea there are a million problems to solve before the illusion works. In ignoring these problems, roy presented me a challenge bigger than his cheetah. Him. Siegfried began to suffer from insomnia and started taking some pills to help him calm down and go to sleep. He got hooked on valium. He was becoming kind of zombielike. He wasnt communicative. He said he began to hallucinate. I realized after a while i was hooked on it. The Substance Abuse problem put a rift to where at one point they almost split. That was probably the most dangerous time of their career when something tuli tragic could have happened. But with siegfried and roy theres no such thing as give up or do it halfway. Those terms never happened with Siegfried Roy. Its all out or nothing. The big breakout year, of course, for Siegfried Roy was 1989. Steve wynn decides hes going to build the mirage. He was going to basically create the new las vegas. He wanted it to be the greatest resort, the greatest casino, the greatest everything that had ever been. So he also had to have the greatest show. Siegfried roy came to me with the idea of a new show that was going to be scaled above and beyond anything that anyone had seen in las vegas. That room at the mirage was built for them, a place to keep elephants and tigers. You know, it was a zoo. The equipment it took to do the illusions, the staging devices and other paraphernalia very, very elaborate, very tricky. Takes a lot of money, i will tell you that. It was probably the most expensive show ever in the history of the world at the time it was built. Over 30 million in 1990. That was big money to spend on a theater. But on top of it Siegfried Roy were makg big sala. They inked a deal for 57 million over five years. At the time it was the biggest contract anybody had ever signed in las vegas. We get the set designer, john napier, who did all the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals as starlight express, cats, and miss saigon. Hes the star of set design. When we finally got him and we talked about the show, what its supposed to be. And he say, how i can do a show when there is no script . I say, we are the script. I had to create a series of woulacennce what ignettes that they already did. So it was a sort of hybrid of Marvel Comics and wagner. I know i it, baby this is the big time when the mirage show opened, no one had seen a magic show of that scale. It was kind of a mashup of a magic show and a broadway show. It was taking what would be a finale for 12 other shows and putting them all together and blending it so beautifully with costumes, with lighting. All dressed up and im ready to go i know i made it, baby this is the big time Siegfried Roy had many, many sequences in their show which were really innovative, particularly combining different illusions. I always liked their sequence where the girl would float up in the air and hed do the hoop, and then shed float into the box. Theyd saw her in half. Put her back together. Cover her with the sheet. Shed float up under the sheet and then disappear. Three classic illusions combined into one routine. No one had ever done that before. And they made it blend together, and it was one of the highlights of their show. When roy would get cut in two pieces, they revolutionized it, and they did it in a way that was out in the open. An awful lot of people are sitting in the audience going, how the [ bleep ] are they doing that . 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