He was the first act to hit the stage, performing for nearly three hours.
The first act of the drama was already down on paper, and it had a protagonist.
The first act of this tragic comedy opened as the 2008 crisis and market meltdown unfolded.
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In a passage in the first act, for example, Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) liberally sows his oats.
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Girl group Kandy Rain were the first act to be voted off the TV singing talent show.
Franz Welser-Moest collapsed into his podium at the end of the first act of the four-and-a-half-hour long Parsifal.
Francis, for one, is a hungry fool for much of the first act.
Their drinking and amorous antics are a highlight of a the first act.
Depressingly, the first act of the new Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was to restore free electricity to some farmers.
As the first act ends, Peter and Gertrud run off into the woods, hoping to find their kids before the witch does.
In the first act, sandwiches have been ordered for his aunt Lady Bracknell's visit, but they are all voraciously eaten beforehand by her nephew.
Mr Rangel told the TeleSur network that the accusations could be interpreted "as the first act of opposition by (President) Uribe" against his successor.
Last year, PJ Harvey became the first act to win the Mercury Prize twice, for her album Let England Shake, after previously winning in 2001.
They are heading for confrontation, but this is only the first act - they are both stating a hard line, before the give and take of negotiations.
In the first act, the report claims that Halliburton supplied a cement slurry of its own devising which it should have recognised was not fit for purpose.
Lloyd provides effective narration and gravitas as The Singer in the first act, then turns irascible and loud throughout Act 2 as Azdak, the vulgar, ranting, drunken judge.
By then, though, I'd been distracted for most of the first act, and felt more empathy than I would have preferred for Bruce Banner's problems with anger management.
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However, this fear was quickly dispelled as the verbal sword play that occurred in the first act mellowed and we were finally let into psyches of both characters.
It may be the first act of remorse, as your counsel says, but, because it comes so late, I am afraid it will earn you only the most modest of credit.
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The bout is the first act of a potentially huge night for British boxing, with Danny Williams fighting for Vitali Klitschko's WBC heavyweight crown in Las Vegas later today.
No, really: The first act begins and ends in a Manhattan apartment on Christmas Day in 1980, and the second opens in the same place on Christmas Day in 2000.
This is especially evident in the first act, which is peopled with vapid stick figures who appear to be drawn not from real life but from an Eisenhower-era television sitcom.
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Not only are you unsure who to root for until the second act, but far too much of the first act is spent introducing the 10 contestants (of whom there are two too many).
In the first act of "Clybourne Park, " set in 1959, we meet Bev and Russ (Christina Kirk and Frank Wood), who are selling their house to the Youngers (who are talked about but never seen).
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One of the most visually stunning moments comes in the first act, with the dance of the Shuixiu (water sleeve) princesses, where dancers move wearing long flowing silk sleeves that are designed to accentuate and articulate their emotions.
Never mind that she spends the first act being leered at by the villain mostly to make Tony Stark oh-so-jealous, never mind that she spends literally the entire second half of the film as a damsel-in-distress.
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We get plenty of footage, most of it menacingly narrated by Donald Sutherland and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but we get the clear sense that nothing we are seeing is past the first act of the film.
But Sir Cliff Richard was the first act to unite the audience in a singalong, with thousands of Union Jacks being swung in time to Congratulations - from the Royal Box down to the front row.
The first act's several private conversations are made possible by Santo Loquasto's nifty Lazy Susan set, with bedrooms turning to reveal the apartment's entry way, which turns again to reveal a sitting room and then a dining room.
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