These Amazing Vegas Acts Are Worth Every Penny

Siegfried & Roy

Roy Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher became synonymous with Vegas as another planet: a place where women are sawed in half; elephants were made to vanish from inside draped cages; tigers were man’s best friend, and lions were completely tame. The magicians themselves frequently vanished and used classic and satisfying props like giant plums of smoke and flashes of light to wow the audience.

Siegfried & Roy’s couldn’t have been Siegfried and Roy anywhere else more perfectly than in Vegas. In 2003 the show at Mirage was suddenly and irrevocably closed after Roy Horn was seriously injured from a neck bite from one of his tigers. He survived with major brain damage and defended the tiger, saying the beast was simply trying to protect him.