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It was just another night, that's all it was.
I think we had to be there at seven and the show started at 730.
I'm in the male dressing room, which is a mix of dancers and acrobats.
But we're wearing these body suits that make us look like we're super muscular and took like ten minutes to squeeze into them every day.
I was still getting used to the fact that I was dancing alongside giant wild animals.
I was on the electric crew.
You're just assuming everything's gonna go exactly the same as it does every night.
We'd have to be backstage, you know, ten minutes before the show started.
And so we all had our own little areas to stretch and Roy would come in and say, hello.
Hello, my loves.
It kind of had a rallying kind of effect.
Everything was normal, man.
I mean, the show went on time.
But these are live shows.
If we screw up, the audience is going to see it.
On October 3, 2003, siegfried and Roy, one of the world's most successful magic acts, step out on stage before a sold out crowd of 1500 people at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Ladies and gentlemen, the superstars of magic, Siegfried and Roy.
It's an elaborate production.
On stage and off.
There's like hundreds of people, multiple dance numbers, costume changes, myself, and there's one.