Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

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Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 4:38am

No particular reason.
Just interested in knowing.

What shows have significant jumps in time
and/or characters from Act 1 to Act 2?

For example:

CLOUD 9
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

#2

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 4:41am

Grey Gardens

#3

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 4:57am

The Skin of Our Teeth (a few thousand years)

#4

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 5:48am

Weird Romance
Romance Romance

#5

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 6:32am

*JULIA ROBERTS ON BROADWAY*...err, "Three Days of Rain"

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Updated On: 3/13/07 at 06:32 AM

#6

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 7:46am

Blood Brothers jumps forward 7 years from act 1 to act 2.

#7

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 10:01am

Miss Saigon ...

From fall of Saigon to several years later (after Kim has had baby and Chris has married Ellen)

#8

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 10:46am

TWO BY TWO - Act 2 takes place 40 days and 40 nights later.

FALSETTOS - Act 2 is a year later.

#9

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 10:54am

Dreamgirls- Something like 7 years pass.

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#10

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 11:14am

I've always been confused by this show, but doesn't Saigon's timeline jump ahead 3 years in the middle of Act I? And Act II is merely what's been going on in the US at the same time as when we saw Kim with Tam at the end of Act I. And then of course it jumps back to the original time for the helicopter sequence, so I'm not surprised people are all confused about it. I worked on the show and I can barely remember. It's the weirdest chronological place for an act break I've ever known.

#11

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 11:17am

I think Camelot jumps something like 5-7 years.

#12

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 11:17am

Not a significant jump but Act II of INTO THE WOODS takes place nine months to a year later.

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#13

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 11:21am

Sunday in the Park with George

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#14

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 12:06pm

The Phantom of the Opera

#15

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 2:04pm

Doesn't 17 years pass between act I and act 2 of Carousel?

#16

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 2:23pm

RENT jumps a few days from December 24th to December 31st...

#17

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 2:27pm

Joekv99-no it doesn't. It jumps ahead 17 years in the middle of Act 2 after Billy has died.

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#18

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 3:02pm

FANNY ends Act 1 with the birth of Cesaario. Act 2 start on his first birthday.

The latest revival of SHOWBOAT ended Act 1 with Magnolia & Ravenal's wedding and started Act 2 with the birth of Kim. The original version started Act 2 at the Chicago Worlds Fair just a few months after the wedding - Magnolia is not even pregnant yet.

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re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 3:10pm

Show Boat
Candide
Annie Get Your Gun
I Do! I Do!
Allegro

#20

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 3:44pm

Sweeney Todd
Wicked
See What I Wanna See

#21

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 5:27pm

Little Women-Amy grows up a lot

#22

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 5:34pm

jon & jen jumps ahead about 15 years.

Aspects of Love jumps ahead a few years

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#23

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 5:48pm

Children of Eden jumps several hundred years from Act I into Act II.

#24

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/13/07 at 8:26pm

Grey Gardens
Wicked

#25

re: Shows with Jumps from Act 1 to Act 2

Posted: 3/14/07 at 1:45am

Avenue Q jumps...three weeks. Not much, but you know...