Siegfried & Roy at the Mirage
1st February 1990
Mirage, Las Vegas
This was a magic show conceived by the great German-American illusionists Siegfried Fischbacher & Roy Horn and the designer John Napier. It opened at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in February 1990 and played continuously there until October 2003 when it closed unexpectedly owing to an injury incurred by Roy Horn during one of the performances.
The show was rehearsed while the building of the Mirage Hotel was still being completed. Because of delays in the construction of the theatre and doubts about the safety of the stage for Siegfried and Roy’s animal co-stars, the original opening date of Christmas 1989 had to be postponed for a month and a half.
The show had some eighty dancers and twelve acrobats – as well as numerous skilled animal handles and technical staff – together with a large menagerie of big cats including white tigers, Bengal tigers, lions, snow leopards, spotted leopards, lep-jags, jaguars and black jaguars, a horse called Favorite and a very beautiful Thai elephant called Gildah.
Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith
Siegfried and Roy
| Conceived and Created by | Siegfried & Roy and John Napier |
Creative Team
| Written and Co-directed by | John Caird |
| Designed and Co-directed by | John Napier |
| Lighting Designer | Andrew Bridge |
| Choreographer | Anthony Van Laast |
| Costumes | William Ivey Long |
| Sound Designer | Jonathan Deans |
| Scenic projection Designer | Lisa Podgur Cuscuna |
| Music Composed and Produced by | Tom Bahler |
| Co-composer | Chris Boardman |
| Music arrangements | Greg Welchel |
| Additional Musical Material | Jerry Bilik, Sean Callery, Bill Purse and Sheldon Rose |
| Director/Choreographer of the Finale | Kenny Ortega |
| Assistant Choreographer of the Finale | Liz Imperio |
| Music Recorded by | Richard Cottrell & Matt Forger |
| Assistant Engineer | Rail Ragot |
| Produced by | Kenneth Feld |
| Personal Manager to Siegfried & Roy | Bernie Yuman |
The Siegfried and Roy Company
| Leading Lady | Lynette Chappell |
| Personal Supervisor for the Siegfried and Roy Company | Lynette Chappell |
| Siegfried and Roy Animal Supervisory Team | George Diesco, Scott Hargis, Melody Hitzhusen, Craig Hobbs, Chris Lawrence, Chris Logan, Thomas Maple, Charles Moxley, Patrick McGauly, John Molnar, Eric Orkney, Stephen Webb |
| Head Groom | Ray Meunier |
| Animal Grooms | Anthony Crawford, Cyrus Douglas, Adam Fischer, Brad Fox, Christopher Gonzales, Antione Hunter, Marcus Peeler, Saul Perez-Alcala, Derrick Privott, Steven Traylor |
| Doctors of Veterinary Medicine for Siegfried and Roy | Dr. Lanny Cornell, Dr. Mike Simon, Martin Dinnes |
| Neo Natal Specialist | Gail Hedberg |
The Cast
| Male Line Captain | Jason Gonzales |
| Female Line Captain | Jennifer Hooper |
| Acrobat Line Captain | Mary Bryan |
| Assistant Female Line Captain | Megan Muldoon-Westwood |
| Dancers and Acrobats | Angela Albuquerque, Miguel Alvarez, Elizabeth Auten, Eric Berkel, Kate Berry, Lisa Brzynski, Kristi Busler, Kathy Carr, Catherine Cmeyla, Kelli Collins, Jeniffer Creed, Kimberly Curtright, Andrew Dashiell, Michael Davies, Shelley DeBoer, Tiffany Deibert, Michael DelCaparni, Desiree Dobson, Jennifer Dorf, Shani Garman, Nicola Lea Hageman, Heather Harmon, Chris Hawkins, Vincent Kelly, Ivan Kilyushik, Krista Kutnick, Cynthia Lydon, Patricia Madden, Shannon Maloney, Mark Matthews, Donald McCarthy, Ann McCoy-Richards, Tiffany Meuwissen, Nancy Mizell, Melinda Moody, Kathleen Niesten, Kyle Osting, Istvan Parragh, Ildiko Pataki, Timmari Putti, Emma Rendon, Heulwen Rossetti-Busa, Amy Schildknecht, Kimberly Shelton, Kristine Sills, Bonnie Skilton, Sonja Snow, Helen Stein, Kristen Stevenson, Sharon Verrochi, Sherry Wampler, Michael Williams, Todd Williams, Raquel Zeiler |
Animal Co-stars
| Snow-White Royal Tigers | Sitarra, Akbar-Kabul, Mantra, Jahan, Tsumura, Vishnu |
| Royal White Tigers | Neva, Shasadee, Nevada, Sieg-Roy, Vegas, Christmas, Nickolei, Noele, Fuji, Tokyo, Osaka, Red, White, Blue, Samsara, Mahatma, Orissa, Manticore, Jaipur, Kashmir, Tajmah, Rewa, Barboda, Nirvana, Narmada, Titan, Atlas |
| Magical White Lions | Sarmoti, Shaka, Secret, Mystery, Hope, Pride, Joy, Destiny, Vision, Quest, Passion, Prosperity |
| Snow Leopard | Manchu |
| Spotted Leopard | Sasha, Asabi |
| Sabu Black Leopard | Boghkara, Macumba |
| Black-Maned Nubian Lion | Mombasa |
| Heterozygous Gold Tigers | Chico, Ali, Jaguar Bombay, Indus, Agra, Barbul, She-Ra, White Gold |
| Ceremonial Thai Elephant | Gildah |