| Siegfried & Roy To Perform Again; THE MAGIC IS BACK”—WORLD EXCLUSIVE! | |
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| royfan36 | Feb 22 2008, 01:28 AM Post #1 |
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SIEGFRIED & ROY TO PERFORM AGAIN—“THE MAGIC IS BACK”—WORLD EXCLUSIVE! Superstar magicians Siegfried & Roy promised tonight (SAT) to perform magic again in Las Vegas. Their stunning and incredible announcement won them an immediate standing ovation and congratulations from 1000 Vegas VIPs—including all the presidents of the MGM Mirage hotels and its largest shareholder, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, all attending the Keep Memory Alive charity fundraiser for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute. Siegfried told a stunned audience: “I make a promise… one year from tonight at next year’s gala… Roy and I will return and we will perform magic again. That is the new goal—our next dream. We will make that come true. The magic is back!” It may only be a one-night only appearance—for now—for the “Masters of the Impossible!” It was back in October, 2003 that Roy, celebrating his 59th birthday, suffered an on-stage stroke resulting in serious neck injuries when his favorite 600-pound Siberian white tiger, Montecore dragged the illusionist off-stage. He was raced to the UMC Trauma Center with major blood loss, suffered an additional major stroke that forced surgeons to remove one-quarter of his skull to enable the swollen brain to expand. Surgeons and brain specialists said that he died three times on the operating table with a series of other strokes, but fought with the strength of a thousand men to come back to life. After 25-days he was transferred to the UCLA Medical Center where he began to move his hands and speak a few words again. “The doctors say it was a miracle,” Siegfried told me at the time. “It was a miracle to even survive and then go to the recovery stage,” their manager Bernie Yuman told me back then. Everybody feared Roy might never walk or talk again—let alone ever perform magic again. But he persevered with his recovery and railed against the gloom and doom naysayers. His first promise was to support our local Opportunity Village Christmas Santa Run charity. The first year he said he’d walk to get it started—and he did. Then the second year he promised to walk the half-kilometer—and he did. The third year he promised to walk the full 1k course—and he did. Now defying all the odds and the doctor’s original bleak forecasts he has set a new goal—to once again perform magic. Siegfried made the surprise announcement when I walked through the star-studded crowd introducing the celebrities and asking each of them to continue their support for the life-saving, life-changing cause. He took my microphone and made his small yet powerful speech—and the room erupted with cheers at their unbelievable undertaking. http://blogs.lasvegasmagazine.com/VegasLuxeLife/siegfried-roy-to-perform-again% |
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