Sentence examples for in its second act from inspiring English sources
Though it perked up in its second act, much of the production felt unfocused and unresolved.
It gets a major jolt in its second act, when Paul, hellbent on enacting bloody revenge, is drawn back to Denton after Gilly and his band perform a horrific act.
As staged by Jonathan Silverstein, the Keen Company's enterprising artistic director, this production doesn't always avoid feeling sodden, particularly in its second act.
In 2011 several ballet companies across North America staged the standard ballet Giselle with the idea that the menacing vampirelike Wilis in its second act might resonate with those interested in the vampires of the blockbuster book and film series Twilight.
Perhaps revealingly, this play, like the Dahl musical, also consists of two ill-matched halves: Williams had lashed together two one-acters (one about an ageing movie-star and a gigolo in a hotel room, another featuring a scandalous political figure), with the result that an intimate play for two voices suddenly expands in its second act into an epic with dozens of characters.
In a scene in its second act, when the title character walked into an elegant restaurant in New York, the waiters, all wearing crisp white shirts and black pants like the waiters at the Broadway restaurants I'd been to, sang and danced with a speed I'd never before experienced.
It's a gorgeous slow burner that turns tragic in its third act, as Kanye's rhymes swap lust for heartache before distorted guitar lines and a muscular verse from Rick Ross close it out".
Deaths are challenging assignments in this ballet, stronger in its first act than in its second two.
But in its first act in particular, "Farragut North" is pretty tasty popcorn entertainment.
"Conversations in Tusculum" establishes these characters and their histories with compelling detail in its first act.
In its first act in particular, "The Day Emily Married," directed by Michael Wilson, pulls off this balancing act with a lovely understated assurance.
