| Play part |
| Play time? |
| Show piece |
| Play start |
| Play opener |
| Opera start |
| Stage start |
| Show opener |
| Drama opener |
| Hart's story |
| Stage opener |
| Hamlet" part |
| Show opening |
| Play period? |
| Show starter |
| Opera opener |
| Play's start |
| Play section |
| Play opening |
| Play starter |
| Opera opening |
| Opera's start |
| Play beginner |
| Play's opener |
| Drama segment |
| Drama opening |
| Stage opening |
| Play division |
| Script starter |
| Otello" opener |
| Broadway start |
| Theater opener |
| B'way opening? |
| Playbill words |
| Start of play? |
| Dramatic start |
| Play beginning |
| Play's opening |
| Curtain raiser |
| Part of a play |
| Chess" opening? |
| Hamlet" starter |
| Othello" opener |
| Sleuth" starter |
| Drama beginning |
| Onset of a plot |
| Opening segment |
| Plot introducer |
| Start of a show |
| Teleplay opener |
| Macbeth" opener |
| Dramatic opener |
| Lights-out time |
| Musical starter |
| Musical opening |
| Broadway opener |
| Theater opening? |
| Start of "Hamlet |
| Othello" opening |
| Wicked" opening? |
| Starter on B'way |
| Start on a stage |
| Curtain follower |
| Operatic opening |
| Play's beginning |
| Playbill heading |
| Start of a play? |
| ''Hamlet'' opener |
| Part of "Parsifal |
| Play's first part |
| Start of the play |
| Opening of a play |
| Musical beginning |
| Prologue follower |
| Dramatic opening? |
| Broadway opening? |
| Overture follower |
| ''Henry V'' opener |
| Stage-play starter |
| Theatrical starter |
| Broadway beginning |
| Opener on Broadway |
| Theatrical opening |
| Dramatic beginning |
| Beginning of a play |
| Curtain-rising time |
| First part of "1776 |
| Start in literature |
| Tragicomedy segment |
| When the lights dim |
| Where a play starts |
| Theatrical kick-off |
| Beginning of a drama |
| H-hour, theatrically |
| It starts "Siegfried |
| Opening on Broadway? |
| Play's early heading |
| It opens on Broadway |
| Start of many a play |
| Curtain-parting time |
| Curtain-raising time |
| First part of a play |
| Heading on a playbill |
| Start of a Simon opus |
| Where the play begins |
| When Caesar is warned |
| Intermission preceder |
| Opera synopsis heading |
| When Tony sings "Maria |
| Dramatic introduction? |
| When the curtain rises |
| First part of a musical |
| It's after the prologue |
| Shakespearean play part |
| Pre-intermission period |
| When Annie sings "Maybe |
| It follows the overture |
| When Romeo spies Juliet |
| When Romeo spots Juliet |
| When Romeo meets Juliet |
| The Frogs" kickoff, e.g. |
| First of five in "Hamlet |
| Opening curtain follower |
| Start of "The Nutcracker |
| Start of an O'Casey opus |
| When the stars come out? |
| When to open the curtain |
| Exposition setting, often |
| What the curtain opens on |
| It may follow an overture |
| Half of "Waiting for Godot |
| Time for the opening scene |
| When Hamlet sees the ghost |
| Beginning of The Tempest |
| It follows a curtain's rise |
| It might follow an overture |
| When Carmen meets Don José |
| When Valjean adopts Cosette |
| Wherein Hamlet sees a ghost |
| Early CliffsNotes subheading |
| First part of a play: 2 wds. |
| Follower of a rising curtain |
| Intermission preceder, maybe |
| Intermission preceder, often |
| It follows a curtain-opening |
| Start of ''Cymbeline,'' e.g. |
| It follows a curtain-raising |
| When Romeo first sees Juliet |
| It comes before intermission |
| First part of "The Nutcracker |
| It includes the opening scene |
| Place for dramatic exposition |
| When Caesar is told to beware |
| When Giselle dies in "Giselle |
| When "Comedy Tonight" is sung |
| Follow-up to a curtain opening |
| Opening part of a play: 2 wds. |
| When the story begins, perhaps |
| When Hamlet first sees a ghost |
| When Macbeth meets the witches |
| When Lear disinherits Cordelia |
| Place for character development |
| It starts when the curtain rises |
| When Carmen sings the "Habanera |
| When the soothsayer warns Caesar |
| It starts when an overture's over |
| First fifth of a Shakespeare play |
| It starts when the curtain goes up |
| Where to see a dramatic beginning? |
| It starts when the overture's over |
| First of nine in "Strange Interlude |
| Initial fifth of a Shakespeare play |
| It may follow the dimming of lights |
| When Hamlet sees his father's ghost |
| King Lear disinherits Cordelia here |
| When King Lear disinherits Cordelia |
| When Hamlet's father's ghost appears |
| When the curtain first opens: 2 wds. |
| When the ghost of Old Hamlet appears |
| When Valjean is released from prison |
| When Hamlet meets his father's ghost |
| When Antonio calls the world a stage |
| When no one dies, in "Romeo and Juliet |
| When Tevye sings "If I Were a Rich Man |
| When the Wicked Witch dies, in "Wicked |
| When the tempest occurs in "The Tempest |
| When "Kansas City" is sung in "Oklahoma! |
| When Emile sings "Some Enchanted Evening |
| When Sally sings "Mein Herr" in "Cabaret |
| When Eliza sings "Wouldn't It Be Loverly? |
| When the shipwreck occurs in "The Tempest |
| When the witches first appear in "Macbeth |
| When Mercutio delivers the Queen Mab speech |
| Common time for character exposition, onstage |
| When Hamlet says "Frailty, thy name is woman! |
| When Caesar is warned "Beware the ides of March |
| When the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears |
| It opens with thunder and lightning, in "Macbeth |
| In "Macbeth," it opens with thunder and lightning |
| When "Good Morning Baltimore" plays in "Hairspray |
| When Caesar is warned to "Beware the Ides of March |
| When Maggie calls herself "a cat on a hot tin roof |
| Whence "Nothing will come of nothing" in "King Lear |
| When "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" is heard in "Carousel |
| When the soothsayer tells Caesar "Beware the ides of March |
| When "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is spoken in "Macbeth |
| When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in "The Book of Mormon |
| When Stanley cries "Hey, Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire |