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Siegfried helps Roy feed a cub as magicians emerge for rare appearance to support a good cause… 12 years after THAT tiger attack..

Siegfried helps Roy feed a cub as magicians emerge for rare appearance to support a good cause… 12 years after THAT tiger attack..

It’s 12 years since a tiger that Siegfried and Roy used in their Las Vegas magic show attacked Roy on stage, leaving him partially disabled.

But that has never deterred the magicians from their quest to help save rare big cats from extinction.

On Thursday, the couple helped make 12-year-old Emma Goldsberry’s wish come true when they introduced her to four tiger cubs at their SARMOTI Cubs Day at the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

They also made her their Child Ambassador Of Conservation in a private ceremony organised by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Emma got to pet two rare white female cubs, Liberty and Maharani, who were born to mother Indira and father Svengali on August 5 as part of a litter that also included golden female Hirah and golden male Justice.

They are the newest additions to Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden at the casino. Read more and watch video at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3287087/Siegfried-helps-Roy-feed-cub-magicians-emerge-rare-appearance-support-good-cause-12-years-tiger-attack.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Magician Criss Angel’s son has leukaemia

Magician Criss Angel’s son has leukaemia

LAS Vegas magician Criss Angel says he’s cancelling shows for the first time in seven years to visit his young son, who was recently diagnosed with leukaemia.

THE magician, whose real name is Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, stars in Criss Angel BeLIEve by Cirque Du Soleil at the Luxor casino-hotel in Las Vegas.

A statement released on Friday said Angel was cancelling his shows beginning on Friday night through November 1 to be with his nearly two-year-old son, Johnny Crisstopher Sarantakos, in Australia.Tickets would be refunded or exchanged.The statement from the production said the boy was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia earlier this week. It says Angel had never missed a show in more than 3000 performances.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/magician-criss-angels-son-has-leukaemia/story-fn3dxix6-1227580812546

LOOK TWICE: AFTER SEVEN YEARS ON THE STRIP, CRISS ANGEL ISN’T DONE MAKING MAGIC..

LOOK TWICE: AFTER SEVEN YEARS ON THE STRIP, CRISS ANGEL ISN’T DONE MAKING MAGIC..

JOHN KATSILOMETES for Las Vegas Weekly..

There was a time when professional magicians donned the tux and tails, tapped a top hat with a wand and professed to make a rabbit appear from its empty interior. Voila! But tonight is not such a time. And Criss Angel is not such a magician.

The star of the Luxor’s stuffed-with-illusions show Believe struts to the middle of the stage, wearing a black leather jacket, thick strands of silver dangling from his neck. His black hair is streaked crimson, as if his skull is bleeding.

Ten minutes or so have passed since the start of the show, as Angel’s support cast—led by his comically brilliant mini-me Maestro, portrayed by Mateo Amieva—have happily entertained the crowd. It’s a Sunday evening, and the place is about packed. Fans cheer when Angel strides prodigiously to center stage. He scans the dark and shouts, “I can’t hear you!”

Whoa. Okay, then. The crowd matches his energy with a dutiful roar. It’s as if Angel has put them on notice: This might be a stage show, but it’s also a participation sport. Read more…

http://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2015/sep/24/criss-angel-not-done-making-magic-believe-luxor/

How do magicians work their way up the Las Vegas ladder?

How do magicians work their way up the Las Vegas ladder?

By Mike Weatherford – Las Vegas Review-Journal

Magicians like to turn things inside out, and two of them are doing just that to the conventional rules of working one’s way up the Las Vegas ladder.

Mike Hammer demonstrates that you don’t have to move to move up. And Dirk Arthur proves he belongs on a big stage — even if belonging there isn’t the same as earning the right to be there.

Both of them remind us that if you think magicians are interchangeable, you haven’t been in Las Vegas very long.

Arthur and his exotic tigers and leopards ended up, almost by default, on the stage where Elvis Presley once sang. In recent years only two small venues were available to his traditional and increasingly old-fashioned illusions show — O’Sheas and then the old “La Cage” showroom at the Riviera — and both of them cut his tenure short by closing their doors.

But he found the Westgate also in need, after an ambitious plan for Elvis-themed shows went south. New management was suddenly in the mood to lease the showroom operation to the producers of Arthur’s show at the Riviera.

When he reopened in late August, a lot of people were right to ask how Arthur can fill a big theater when he couldn’t fill a small one. It’s still not a terrible question, but two things at least explain the logic. Read more..

http://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/shows/how-do-magicians-work-their-way-the-las-vegas-ladder