New Siegfired and Roy podcast delves ‘behind the scenes’

One of the Las Vegas Strip’s astir celebrated acts is the absorption of a caller podcast, and this 1 sounds juicy.

The Apple TV+ bid “Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy,” billed arsenic “the behind-the-scenes communicative of the world’s astir celebrated magical duo,” is owed successful January connected Apple Podcasts.

The archetypal 2 30-minute episodes of the eight-part podcast volition premiere connected Jan. 12. The bid volition past station successful play installments. The “Wild Things” trailer dropped Thursday, and besides is disposable connected Apple Podcasts.

The “Wild Things” task is produced by investigative writer and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Leckart, who narrates, and besides Will Malnati of At Will Media. Leckart’s credits see the Space Shuttle doc “Challenger: The Final Flight,” and “What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali.”

The three-minute trailer opens with the exigency telephone from the Mirage the nighttime Roy Horn was dragged disconnected the signifier by Mantecore (then known arsenic Montecore). A clip from that call: “Roy Horn has been bitten by a tiger.” We perceive arsenic an unidentified signifier manus says, “There was truthful much, truthful overmuch blood. This was hellhole connected Earth.”

S&R’s longtime manager Bernie Yuman, successful an archival clip, says, “After much than 30,000 unrecorded performances, this 1 tragic mishap is evidently an anomaly.” Then the narrator asks, “But what if it the onslaught isn’t an anomaly? What if it’s really conscionable misdirection?”

The duo’s idiosyncratic lives besides are revisited, with Barbara Walters asking them astir their “very antithetic relationship.” She asks constituent blank, “Are you lovers?” Their reply is not played.

Efforts to scope Yuman and Lynette Chappell, who played the “Evil Queen” onstage and was portion of S&R’s interior ellipse for decades, person been unsuccessful. It is not known whether the S&R property cooperated with the project.

Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn some died implicit the past 18 months. Horn died astatine property 75 connected May 8, 2020, from complications owed to COVID. Fischbacher died astatine property 81 connected Jan. 13, from pancreatic cancer. Both were residing successful Las Vegas erstwhile they passed.

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