Going back to Shakespeare's time and before, actors have "strutted and fretted their hours" upon stages' motionless and solid floors. Scenery came and went with the acts, but generally, the floor was fixed. Not so anymore. Audiences have come to expect special effects during their theatrical experiences, and scenery companies are delivering. Current Broadway theater goers delight at the "floating" bedroom in the Tony Award-winning show Billy Elliot, and audiences at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas marvel at the magical cage that materializes seemingly out of thin air for The Phantom of the Opera.
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