sentences:  There has been a merger of techniques used in Broadway, movies and opera.A good illustration of this type of merging is seen for the second time at the WNO 2006 Fall opera season with the presentation of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", wherein Polish director Mariusz Treliński, originally a movie director, presented his innovative production which used an extensive cast of supernumeraries as Japanese fishermen, Yamadories and live statues.The "Washington Blade" took notice of these statues and described them effectively