Awesome / EFX

• The large EFX Master head projection that opens the show, delivering a powerful monologue to summon the Masters of Magic, Laughter, Spirits and Time and shooting lasers from its eyes.

• The flying saucer the headliner rides in the title/opening number, which travels the stage at breakneck speeds against a large curtain of fog.

• The reveal of Merlin and Morgana each transforming into large animatronic dragons, especially how close they actually are to each other when they begin breathing flames.

• The transition from Barnum's spaceship flying in via projection and then seeing it land on-stage with the rumble of its engines shaking the whole theater.

• The Flying Kaganovitch trapeze act, accompanied by its Awesome Music.

• The Jig, especially with the sounds of all the cast's footsteps.
  • Michael Crawford's EFX Master flying after his assistant.
  • Tommy Tune's tap number which proceeds this.

• The Spike Cage Escape, which includes a performer Bait-and-Switch with Houdini reappearing as the executioner.

• The sudden appearance of the headliner (post-Cassidy) in the audience following the Chinese Water Torture Cell.

• The entire H.G. Wells 3D film, which includes a knight pointing an axe at the audience and the time machine nearly being eaten by an aquatic lizard.

• The giant hand and power sphere that Michael Crawford stands on in the finale.
  • The ensemble climbing up the sides proscenium.