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  • 1.  YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Intermission

    Posted 01-08-2018 22:53
    Does it go between the first two acts? TIA!

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    Taylor Horne
    Upper School Theatre Director
    Jacksonville FL
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  • 2.  RE: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Intermission

    Posted 01-09-2018 06:25
    I did it between the second and third acts.  It makes for a long first act, but it's a nice cliffhanger.

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    Tobin Strader
    Visual and Performing Arts Department Chair,
    Theatre Arts Instructor
    Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School,
    Indianapolis, IN
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  • 3.  RE: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Intermission

    Posted 01-09-2018 08:58
    We took two intermissions.  Sold more concessions!

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    Robert Kohler
    Kansas City MO
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  • 4.  RE: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Intermission

    Posted 01-09-2018 09:15
    We open the end of this month and are taking intermissions between each act.

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    Mike Hancey
    Musical Theatre, Drama, Theatre Guild, & Theater Manager
    Laramie High School
    Laramie, WY
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  • 5.  RE: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Intermission

    Posted 01-09-2018 09:32
    That is what we did; our intermission was between acts 1 and 2.  Otherwise the first half is just too long.

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    Josh Belk
    Director of Theatre
    Palmer Ridge High School
    Monument, CO
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  • 6.  RE: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Intermission

    Posted 01-10-2018 15:02
    I directed the play twice in my career, and only took one intermission.  Without the script in front of me I know it was somewhere around the middle of the 2nd act.  I'm very much opposed to two intermissions - especially for high school productions.  I realize "Noises Off" has to have two intermissions for the set change.   My motto was always,  "Gettem in . . . and gettem out!"  I can hardly think of a musical - I know there's a few around - that has more than one intermission, and look how long most of them are. . . Steve Halper

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    Steve Halper
    Theatre Assistant & Co-sponsor
    Salpointe Catholic High School
    Tucson, AZ
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  • 7.  RE: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Intermission

    Posted 01-11-2018 06:02
    I have done this play twice at my current school 15 years apart.

    We used two intermissions the first time. One the second.

    If you can keep the tempo up in the first two acts, the intermission works fine right after the fireworks explosion -- is that the end of the play's act 2? If the tempo is key -- a slow tempo makes the first act drag on too long.

    I think the show including one intermission should be about 2 hours long. That takes a pretty brisk pace.

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    Mark A. Zimmerman,

    Theatre Director
    Akron School for the Arts
    Firestone Community Learning Center
    470 Castle Blvd
    Akron, Ohio 44313

    Troupe 5570

    mzimmerm@apslearn.org
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