| When Lear disinherits Cordelia | 30 |
| When Hamlet's father's ghost appears | 44 |
| When Hamlet says "Frailty, thy name is woman!" | 56 |
| When Giselle dies in "Giselle" | 40 |
| When Emile sings "Some Enchanted Evening" | 51 |
| When Eliza sings "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" | 56 |
| When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in "The Book of Mormon" | 72 |
| When Carmen sings the "Habanera" | 43 |
| When Carmen meets Don José | 29 |
| When Caesar is told to beware | 29 |
| When Antonio calls the world a stage | 37 |
| When Annie sings "Maybe" | 34 |
| When "Good Morning Baltimore" plays in "Hairspray" | 70 |
| When "Comedy Tonight" is sung | 39 |
| What the curtain opens on | 25 |
| Tragicomedy segment | 19 |
| Theatrical starter | 18 |
| Starter on B'way | 20 |
| Start on a stage | 16 |
| Start of the play | 17 |
| Start of an O'Casey opus | 28 |
| Start of a Simon opus | 21 |
| Start of a show | 15 |
| Start of ''Cymbeline,'' e.g. | 44 |
| Start in literature | 19 |
| Stage-play starter | 18 |
| Stage opener | 12 |
| Shakespearean play part | 23 |
| Script starter | 14 |
| Pre-intermission period | 23 |
| Plot introducer | 15 |
| Play's opener | 17 |
| Play's early heading | 24 |
| Play beginner | 13 |
| Part of "Parsifal" | 28 |
| Opera's start | 17 |
| Opera synopsis heading | 22 |
| Opera opening | 13 |
| Opening of a play | 17 |
| Opening curtain follower | 24 |
| Musical opening | 15 |
| It's after the prologue | 27 |
| It starts when the curtain goes up | 34 |
| It starts "Siegfried" | 31 |
| It opens with thunder and lightning, in "Macbeth" | 59 |
| It may follow the dimming of lights | 35 |
| It follows the overture | 23 |
| It follows a curtain's rise | 31 |
| It follows a curtain-raising | 28 |
| Initial fifth of a Shakespeare play | 35 |
| In "Macbeth," it opens with thunder and lightning | 59 |
| Heading on a playbill | 21 |
| Hart's story | 16 |
| Half of "Waiting for Godot" | 37 |
| H-hour, theatrically | 20 |
| Follow-up to a curtain opening | 30 |
| First part of a musical | 23 |
| First of nine in "Strange Interlude" | 46 |
| First of five in "Hamlet" | 35 |
| Early CliffsNotes subheading | 28 |
| Dramatic opener | 15 |
| Drama opener | 12 |
| Drama beginning | 15 |
| Curtain-rising time | 19 |
| Curtain follower | 16 |
| Common time for character exposition, onstage | 45 |
| Broadway start | 14 |
| Beginning of a drama | 20 |
| Beginning of The Tempest | 27 |
| "Wicked" opening? | 27 |
| "The Frogs" kickoff, e.g. | 35 |
| "Sleuth" starter | 26 |
| "Othello" opening | 27 |
| "Othello" opener | 26 |
| "Hamlet" starter | 26 |
| "Hamlet" opener | 25 |
| ''Henry V'' opener | 34 |
| ''Hamlet'' opener | 33 |
| Intermission follower, at times | 31 |
| Intermission follower | 21 |
| Middle of some plays | 20 |
| Middle of many plays | 20 |
| Intermission follower, often | 28 |
| It may follow intermission | 26 |
| "Cats" conclusion | 27 |
| When the Sugar Plum Fairy appears in "The Nutcracker" | 63 |
| When the plot thickens, often | 29 |
| When the balcony scene occurs in "Romeo and Juliet" | 61 |
| When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first appear | 46 |
| When Romeo and Juliet have their balcony scene | 46 |
| When Juliet says ''Parting is such sweet sorrow'' | 65 |
| When Juliet is compared to the sun | 34 |
| When Juliet asks "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" | 54 |
| When Hamlet says "The play's the thing" | 53 |
| When Hamlet pretends to go mad | 30 |
| Second part of a play | 21 |
| Second half of a musical | 24 |
| Play center, often | 18 |
| Middle of a play, often | 23 |
| Last part of "Cats" | 29 |