| Powerful hormone | 16 |
| Pituitary-gland product | 23 |
| Pituitary-gland hormone | 23 |
| Pituitary hormone: Abbr. | 24 |
| Pituitary gland output, briefly | 31 |
| Pituitary gland output | 22 |
| Pituitary gland hormone | 23 |
| Kin of cortisone | 16 |
| Important hormone | 17 |
| Hormone substance | 17 |
| Growth hormone: Abbr. | 21 |
| Drug acronym | 12 |
| Corticotrophin | 14 |
| A protein, for short | 20 |
| Play opener | 11 |
| Start of a play | 15 |
| Overture follower | 17 |
| Play start | 10 |
| Broadway opening | 16 |
| First part of a play | 20 |
| Broadway opening? | 17 |
| Play opening | 12 |
| Play starter | 12 |
| Playbill heading | 16 |
| When Romeo meets Juliet | 23 |
| Show opener | 11 |
| Opening on Broadway | 19 |
| Theater opening | 15 |
| Stage opening | 13 |
| Theater opening? | 16 |
| Dramatic opening | 16 |
| Dramatic beginning | 18 |
| Curtain raiser | 14 |
| Play beginning | 14 |
| Dramatic introduction? | 22 |
| Theatrical opening | 18 |
| Prologue follower | 17 |
| Play's opening | 18 |
| Opener on Broadway? | 19 |
| Intermission preceder | 21 |
| When the curtain rises | 22 |
| When Romeo spots Juliet | 23 |
| When King Lear disinherits Cordelia | 35 |
| When Hamlet meets his father's ghost | 40 |
| Show starter | 12 |
| Play's start | 16 |
| Play time? | 10 |
| Play period? | 12 |
| Opera opener | 12 |
| Opener on Broadway | 18 |
| Musical beginning | 17 |
| It comes before intermission | 28 |
| Curtain-raising time | 20 |
| Broadway opener | 15 |
| Broadway beginning | 18 |
| When to open the curtain | 24 |
| When Macbeth meets the witches | 30 |
| When Hamlet sees the ghost | 26 |
| When Hamlet sees his father's ghost | 39 |
| When Caesar is warned | 21 |
| Theatrical kick-off | 19 |
| Start of play? | 14 |
| Start of many a play | 20 |
| Start of "Hamlet" | 27 |
| Show opening | 12 |
| Playbill words | 14 |
| Play's beginning | 20 |
| Musical starter | 15 |
| Lights-out time | 15 |
| King Lear disinherits Cordelia here | 35 |
| It opens on Broadway | 20 |
| It may follow an overture | 25 |
| First fifth of a Shakespeare play | 33 |
| Dramatic start | 14 |
| Drama segment | 13 |
| Drama opening | 13 |
| Curtain-parting time | 20 |
| B'way opening? | 18 |
| "Macbeth" opener | 26 |
| Wherein Hamlet sees a ghost | 27 |
| Where to see a dramatic beginning? | 34 |
| Where the play begins | 21 |
| Where a play starts | 19 |
| Whence "Nothing will come of nothing" in "King Lear" | 72 |
| When Valjean is released from prison | 36 |
| When Tony sings "Maria" | 33 |
| When the witches first appear in "Macbeth" | 52 |
| When the Wicked Witch dies, in "Wicked" | 49 |
| When the tempest occurs in "The Tempest" | 50 |
| When the story begins, perhaps | 30 |
| When the shipwreck occurs in "The Tempest" | 52 |
| When the lights dim | 19 |
| When the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears | 51 |
| When Tevye sings "If I Were a Rich Man" | 49 |
| When Stanley cries "Hey, Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 83 |
| When Sally sings "Mein Herr" in "Cabaret" | 61 |
| When Romeo spies Juliet | 23 |
| When no one dies, in "Romeo and Juliet" | 49 |
| When Mercutio delivers the Queen Mab speech | 43 |
| When Maggie calls herself "a cat on a hot tin roof" | 61 |