Sentence examples for before the second act from inspiring English sources
There was a time when "second-acting" — sneaking into a Broadway theater at intermission before the second act — was as common as the cigarette break in the middle of a musical.
Everyone knew that it was just an intermission before the second act of summer really began.
But for the most part Mr. Rizzo conducted a colorful, expressive reading, particularly intense in the Intermezzo before the second act.
But yesterday's 200km stage from Civitanova Marche to Forli – on paper a transitional day made for the sprinters, where the general classification favourites take a breather before the second act of the race hits them like a sledgehammer – was anything but an easy day in the saddle for Richie Porte.
Or maybe the torture will continue, before the second act of the drama can begin.
During the interval I bought him a coffee to help sober him up before the second act.
It was well aware of the viral video sensation, where at first an ignored goofy figure dances to a song alone before being joined in the second act by a cast of colorful characters going crazy.
(Hey, isn't that the logo on The New York Times Building that flashes before our eyes in the second act?) Still, if much of "Chimerica," the most talked-about new play of the season, feels familiar to me, it isn't from having lived in New York and been a part of its leading broadsheet.
These include a title card just before the start of the second act which says "Frasier is a hit show on the NBC television network" in a similar typeface and style as Frasiers intertitles, and when Bart jumps on Cecil and says "guess who," Cecil replies with "Maris?" Cecil's inability to see Bart also refers to the fact that Maris, Niles' wife in Frasier, is never actually seen.
We are well into the second act before he articulates any strong feeling - and that's his horror at Westlife's bastardisation of a Queen song.
From the start of the first act, stylized court ritual, dance and music help raise the emotional temperature even before the action moves, in the second act, to the hellish colonial setting of Surinam.
