- ACTI
- Opera opener
- Play beginning
- Play opener
- Play opening
- Broadway opener
- Play part
- Twelfth Night opener
- Broadway opening
- When Romeo met Juliet
- Play start
- It follows an overture
- When the protagonist's status quo is interrupted, often
- Dramatic opening?
- Prologue follower
- When King Lear divides his realm
- Wicked opening?
- When no one dies, in "Romeo and Juliet"
- It might follow an overture
- It starts when the overture's over
- The first half of "Waiting for Godot"
- When things may be set up on stage
- When Romeo meets Juliet
- When Hamilton sings "My Shot"
- Curtain-raiser
- Opening scenes
- Intermission preceder
- Overture follower
- Curtain opener
- Stage start
- Play's first part
- Play's opening
- Start of "Hamlet"
- Shakespearean start
- Play's beginning
- When Caesar is warned
- Opera opener, often
- Start of many plays
- Play's kickoff?
- It contains the opening scene
- Playbill heading
- When the first number is heard
- Play-synopsis subhead
- When the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears
- When the soothsayer tells Caesar "Beware the ides of March"
- When "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" is heard in "Carousel"
- When Prospero declares "My library was dukedom large enough" in "The Tempest"
- Heading on some CliffsNotes passages
- When climaxes rarely occur
- Setting for much foreshadowing
- Time for openers, usually
- When the exposition occurs, usually
- Setting for the starting line?
- First album of Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage"
- Time for the "rising action", often
- Post-overture happening
- What an overture may introduce
- What to see after the curtain opens first
- When the first line is delivered
- Initial part of a play
- Start for a playwright
- First part of a play
- Twelfth Night beginning
- Dramatic beginning?
- Henry V opener
- Show opener
- Play opener, usually
- Broadway beginning
- It often follows an overture
- Play starter
- Play's early heading
- Script starter
- When the "Habanera" is sung in "Carmen"
- When Macbeth meets the witches
- Curtain-parting time
- Start of a play
- When Carmen sings the "Habanera"
- Initial fifth of a Shakespeare play
- What the curtain opens on
- Theater opening?
- When thumbs are bitten in "Romeo and Juliet"
- Othello opening
- B'way opening?
- Show starter
- First fifth of a Shakespeare play
- Play period?
- Stage opening
- Theater opener
- When Caesar is warned "Beware the ides of March"
- When Macbeth meets the three witches
- First Vth of "Henry V"
- Broadway start
- Pal Joey opening
- It may follow an overture
- When Hamlet's father's ghost appears
- Macbeth opener
- In "Macbeth," it begins "When shall we three meet again"
- When King Lear disinherits Cordelia
- Show opening
- When Lear disinherits Cordelia
- When Tevye sings "If I Were a Rich Man"
- It may follow the dimming of lights
- It opens with thunder and lightning, in "Macbeth"
- When Giselle dies in "Giselle"
- In "Macbeth," it opens with thunder and lightning
- When Romeo spots Juliet
- It follows the overture
- When Eliza sings "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"
- Dramatic opener
- When Emile sings "Some Enchanted Evening"
- When Tony sings "Maria"
- When Valjean is released from prison
- Opening on Broadway
- When Annie sings "Maybe"
- Opening segment
- Dramatic start
- When Valjean adopts Cosette
- When "Kansas City" is sung in "Oklahoma!"
- Follower of a rising curtain
- All of Sartre's "No Exit"?
- Drama opening
- When "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is spoken in "Macbeth"
- When the story starts on stage
- With 66-Down, when Lady Macbeth says, "Leave all the rest to me"
- All of Albee's "The Zoo Story," essentially
- When Juliet says, "Go ask his name"
- Hamlet beginning
- Musical opening
- Part of a musical
- When Lear disowns Cordelia
- When Lear divides his kingdom
- Drama start
- Operatic opening
- When "Seventy Six Trombones" is first heard
- When the Soothsayer warns Caesar
- When the curtain rises
- Hamlet opener
- Drama beginning
- Musical starter
- Sleuth starter
- Stage-play starter
- It starts "Siegfried"
- Otello opener
- Place for character development
- When Hamlet first sees a ghost
- Exposition setting, often
- Place for dramatic exposition
- Beginning of a play
- Opening of a play
- Teleplay opener
- Playbill header
- Exposition setting
- Musical opener
- Phone warning follower, at times
- Play's first section
- What light-dimming precedes
- It starts at curtain time
- Musical beginning
- When Mercutio delivers the Queen Mab speech
- Play time?
- When Hamlet says "Frailty, thy name is woman!"
- First part of a musical
- Opening curtain follower
- First part of "Hamlet."
- First part of a drama.
- Start of a drama.
- Part of a play.
- Part of a drama.
- Section of a drama.
- Drama section.
- Play division.
- Playbill listing.
- Playbill entry.
- Drama part.
- Playwright's concern.
- Opening of a sort.
- Play section.
- Program listing.
- H-hour, theatrically
- Hart's story
- Playbill words
- Drama opener
- When Hamlet sees the ghost
- Beginning of a drama
- Starter on B'way
- First of five in "Hamlet"
- First of nine in "Strange Interlude"
- Part of "Parsifal"
- Start of an O'Casey opus
- Tragicomedy segment
- Wherein Hamlet sees a ghost
- Hamlet part
- Drama segment
- Othello opener
- Heading on a playbill
- It's after the prologue
- The Frogs kickoff, e.g.
- Start of a Simon opus
- Theatrical starter
- Shakespearean play part
- It's a start
- When "Alexander Hamilton" is sung in "Hamilton"
- When the Battle of Yorktown occurs in "Hamilton"
- Play's opener
- Pre-intermission period
- Stage beginning
- It follows a curtain-raising
- Curtain-raising time
- When Carmen meets Don José
- When the witches first appear in "Macbeth"
- Curtain-rising time
- Opera synopsis heading
- Play's start
- Start of a show
- When Hamlet sees his father's ghost
- Follow-up to a curtain opening
- It follows a curtain's rise
- Start on a stage
- When the shipwreck occurs in "The Tempest"
- When Maggie calls herself "a cat on a hot tin roof"
- Start in literature
- When the tempest occurs in "The Tempest"
- When Caesar is told to beware
- When the nude scene occurs in 10-Across
- When Stanley cries "Hey, Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- Early CliffsNotes subheading
- When the story begins, perhaps
- It follows a curtain-opening
- It starts when an overture's over
- When Romeo first sees Juliet
- When Caesar is told to "Beware the ides of March"
- Opera piece
- Drama starter?
- Half of "Guys and Dolls"
- When Hamilton meets Burr, in "Hamilton"
- When Romeo meets Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
- First of five at the Globe Theatre
- Start to play?
- When "Time Warp" is sung in the musical "The Rocky Horror Show"
- When Blanche meets Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- Musical's beginning
- When the stage direction "Enter three Witches" appears in "Macbeth"
- When the Wicked Witch dies, in "Wicked"
- It comes before intermission
- Half of "Waiting for Godot"
- When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in "The Book of Mormon"
- Where Hamlet meets Dad
- First portion of a play
- Play beginner
- Opera's start
- When Tybalt asks, "What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?"
- When Hamlet sees Hamlet
- First half of Caryl Churchill's "Cloud 9"
- First of five in a Shakespeare play
- When the play starts
- Opener on Broadway
- King Lear disinherits Cordelia here
- Where the play begins
- When Hamlet meets his father's ghost
- Plot introducer
- Hamlet starter
- Stage opener
- Start of "Cymbeline," e.g.
- Play's opening part
- Intermission preceder, maybe
- Opening at the opera?
- When a play's conflict is often established
- Ballet's beginning
- Chess opening?
- It may precede an intermission
- Start of a musical
- When Iago reveals that he hates Othello
- Hamilton opening
- Beginning of The Tempest
- When the lights dim
- Theatrical kick-off
- When to open the curtain
- Lights-out time
- It opens on Broadway
- Where to see a dramatic beginning?
- Start of many a play
- When the ghost of Old Hamlet appears
- It starts when the curtain rises
- It includes the opening scene
- It starts when the curtain goes up
- Opening part of a play
- Play's opening segment
- Starting segment of a musical
- Shrew's opening
- Opera opening
- Start of some entertainment
- Company opening?
- Start of play?
- When Romeo spies Juliet
- Theatrical opening
- Where a play starts
- First part of "The Nutcracker"
- Intermission preceder, often
- Start of "The Nutcracker"
- Elphaba sings "Defying Gravity" at the end of it
- Time for the opening scene
- When the first characters are introduced
- Opera's opening
- It sometimes ends with a cliffhanger
