This show by Jacques Offenbach was a féerie: a production that trafficked in illusionism and fantasy by using elaborate stage tricks in addition to acrobats (often featured in operas), music, dancers, and pantomimes to capitalize on the burgeoning interest in science fiction. Journeys to the moon, improbable as they seemed then, were the subject of popular novels, including Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, which inspired Georges Méliès’s remarkable 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (excerpts of which are on view in the salle de cinéma).