Our Acts Are Different: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Pippin]]'' was originally written in one act, but most regional productions insert an intermission.

* ''[[Assassins (theatre)|Assassins]]'' by [[Stephen Sondheim]] has no intermission, as it has no real plot.

* Jean-Paul Sartre's ''[[No Exit]]''.

* ''[[The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee|The Twenty Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee]]''

* [[Cirque Du Soleil]] tours are usually two act affairs (two-and-a-half hours with intermission), but their "resident" productions (the various Las Vegas shows, ''[[La Nouba]]'', etc.) usually have runtimes of 90 to 105 minutes with no intermission. This allows for two performances a night/ten performances a week and doesn't try the patience of audiences who would also like to gamble, etc. When the tours ''[[Nouvelle Experience]]'' and ''[[Alegria]]'' were adapted for casinos, they lost their intermissions and at least one acrobatic setpiece to reach a 90-minute runtime. In fact, editing "legit" shows has long been common practice in Las Vegas; ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', ''[[Avenue Q]]'', ''[[Spamalot]]'', and ''[[The Producers]]'' were all cut to 90-or-so minutes either when they opened or later in the run, dropping their intermissions among other things.

 

== Three Acts ==