stage effect

Most productions demonstrate some of the possible stage effects using the original equipment.

But, if we are to have a talk, let us have it without any more stage effects.

Blue gas erupted around Valentina's feet, like a stage effect.

The theater opened in summer of 1795, amazing the guests with unprecedented stage effects.

The French grand opera was full of hugely elaborate stage effects.

Such stage effects can sometimes surprise but, at best, they are almost always redundant.

Like all Frenchmen he has a passion for stage effect.

I knew what he was saying; these were standard stage effects for making apparatus that is concealing someone seem empty.

It was like the difference between a theatrical stage effect and a thunderstorm.

It is even found in lavish stage effects of Broadway productions.