Two years and one month after a tiger attack that nearly killed him, magician Roy Horn and his partner Siegfried Fischbacher were back on stage but as patrons rather than performers.
The Las Vegas team of Siegfried & Roy visited the Ozark resort of Branson, Mo., to promote the show of protege Darren Romeo and make promises about their own return to performing.
"We will be back," the black-clad Roy told reporters, speaking on the stage of the Welk Resort Theater. He didn't say when that might be.
"I will make sure of that, because I am making a remarkable recovery," he said.
In Branson, Roy, 61, limped as he walked with the help of a black cane in his right hand and held his left arm crooked by his side. His words were slurred at times, and he left in a wheelchair.