I recently did stage lighting model (a flying truss) for someone..I have seen stages, but they're rather specialized (1 'pole dancing/comedy/small stage' sort of thing, and a Wrestling ring, that could be adapted). Not sure about the rest. Seems a Poser cube primitive could be pressed into service. If you have Poser 5 and up, you have your choice of materials from all the sites out there. Stay tuned for more helpful replies..;)

One 'around your elbow to get to your thumb' method would be to go to the Bryce forum, download bryce 5 (free), then go to Tony Lynch's site to pick up a lot of Bryce  wood mats (specific to Bryce). Then point down, adjust lighting to suit, apply the material to the plane, and save the result as a jpg. There must be a way to import it into Poser. (If you want to go around your big toe to get to your thumb, download Wings 3d, create a stage model, UVMap it [, then export from Wings as and .obj file, then import  into Poser). It's convoluted, but I do it..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)