The Mirage

This guide to The Mirage in Las Vegas centers on October 3, 2003, Roy Horn's sixtieth birthday, and an ordinary performance by Siegfried and Roy, the magicians who had headlined here since 1990 with acts built around white tigers and lions. It follows a seven-year-old tiger named Mantacore as the show reaches a moment when he strays from his mark, and Roy tries to guide him back the way he always had. Listen for how a fourteen-year run of nearly five thousand performances is remembered by the crowd who filled this theater night after night.