Siegfried & Roy Make Comeback Appearance One-Night Only For Charity (Photos)

Siegfried and Roy will hit the stage for a one-night-only comeback performance Saturday, more than five years after a brutal tiger attack ended their careers. But this one-night only show is for charity.

The charity performance is being called “the final bow” for Roy Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher, the German-born performers with one of the most successful shows in Las Vegas history.

Siegfriend and Roy had performed together for 45 years when a 380-pound Bengal tiger named Montecore bit into Roy Horn’s neck during a live performance and dragged him offstage in front of the shocked audience.

Horn, now 64, was partially paralyzed, suffering a damaged neck artery and crushed windpipe in the October 2003 attack.

That was pretty much the end of “Siegfried and Roy” after the tiger attack incident.

Promoters didn’t say if the tigers would be in their performance Saturday night.

“I’m sworn to secrecy,” said Maureen Peckman of the Keep Memory Alive Foundation, the event’s host.

Siegfried and Roy’s performance at the Bellagio hotel-casino was to benefit the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The center, which will treat brain disorders like those Horn now suffers, is set to open later this year in a building designed by architect Frank Gehry.

Siegfried and Roy’s performance will air March 6 in a one-hour special on ABC’s “20/20.”

While Roy Horn has recuperated, both men have remained devoted to their exotic habitat on the Las Vegas Strip. The Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at The Mirage hotel-casino houses lions, tigers and leopards. Fischbacher, 69, has called it Horn’s “reason to get up in the morning.”

The performers believe that Montecore sensed Horn was having a mini-stroke and was dragging him to safety, rather than attacking him. But other animal experts do not agree.

After a two-year review, federal investigators were unable to determine what made the tiger attack.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture did find that the “Siegfried & Roy” show failed to protect the audience because it had no barrier separating the exotic animals from the crowd.

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