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See also: [[Act Break]], [[Two
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* ''[[The Last Five Years]]''
* ''[[The Drowsy Chaperone]]'' lacks an intermission, despite [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|claiming to be]] a restoration and revival of what was clearly a two-act musical
* ''[[
* ''[[Follies]]'' was originally presented in one act because an intermission would probably make an awkward interruption in the action. The awkward interruption is now usual.
* ''[[A Chorus Line]]''
* ''[[Pippin]]'' was originally written in one act, but most regional productions insert an intermission.
* ''[[Assassins (
* ''[[1776
* Jean-Paul Sartre's ''[[No Exit]]''.
* ''[[The
* [[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.
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* ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'', Oscar Wilde's most famous play, is in three acts (though [[Executive Meddling|it was originally in four]]), with breaks usually taken between each.
** The three-act ''[[Our Town]]'' usually follows the same format as Earnest, as does Thorton Wilder's other famous work ''[[The Skin of Our Teeth]]''. However, ''[[The Matchmaker]]'' is in four acts, and its ([[Adaptation Displacement|much better-known adaptation]], ''[[Hello, Dolly!|Hello, Dolly]]'', is in two.
* Both Moises Kaufman's ''[[The Laramie Project]]'' and ''[[Gross Indecency]]'' are in three acts.
* [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Arms and
* The musical adaptation of ''[[Giant]]'' by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson is one of very few musicals to be in three acts.
* Most of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s operas use the basic two-act structure. ''Princess Ida'' does not, and since the second act is the longest one by a good bit, there's no good way to use a single intermission.
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