Referring Clues

• Overture follower
• Play start
• Play opener
• Intermission preceder
• Opera opener
• Play's opening
• When King Lear disinherits Cordelia
• It follows a curtain-raising
• Curtain-raising time
• Dramatic beginning
• Play opening
• Broadway opener
• Play starter
• Broadway opening?
• Opening on Broadway
• Start of a play
• When Carmen meets Don José
• When the witches first appear in "Macbeth"
• Prologue follower
• Stage opening
• Dramatic opening
• Start of a show
• When Hamlet sees his father's ghost
• Opera synopsis heading
• Show opener
• Curtain-rising time
• Play's start
• Drama opening
• When Hamlet sees the ghost
• It follows a curtain's rise
• Musical opening
• Follow-up to a curtain opening
• When Romeo meets Juliet
• When the shipwreck occurs in "The Tempest"
• Broadway opening
• Start on a stage
• When Maggie calls herself "a cat on a hot tin roof"
• Show opening
• Dramatic beginning?
• "Twelfth Night" beginning
• First part of a play
• "Henry V" opener
• Play opener, usually
• Curtain raiser
• Broadway beginning
• It often follows an overture
• Script starter
• When the "Habanera" is sung in "Carmen"
• Play's early heading
• When Macbeth meets the witches
• Curtain-parting time
• When Carmen sings the "Habanera"
• Initial fifth of a Shakespeare play
• What the curtain opens on
• In "Macbeth," it opens with thunder and lightning
• Start in literature
• Dramatic start
• When Mercutio delivers the Queen Mab speech
• Play time?
• When Hamlet says "Frailty, thy name is woman!"
• Playbill heading
• Play beginning
• First part of a musical
• When Romeo spots Juliet
• When Giselle dies in "Giselle"
• It opens with thunder and lightning, in "Macbeth"
• It may follow the dimming of lights
• When Hamlet's father's ghost appears
• When Lear disinherits Cordelia
• "Macbeth" opener
• When Tevye sings "If I Were a Rich Man"
• When Caesar is warned
• Musical starter
• Show starter
• "Macbeth" opener
• "Sleuth" starter
• Drama beginning
• "Hamlet" opener
• Play part
• "Henry V" opener
• Opener on Broadway
• Start of "Cymbeline," e.g.
• Start of many a play
• Where to see a dramatic beginning?
• It opens on Broadway
• Lights-out time
• It may follow an overture
• When to open the curtain
• Theatrical kick-off
• When the lights dim
• When the tempest occurs in "The Tempest"
• Theater opening
• When Eliza sings "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"
• Theater opening?
• It follows the overture
• When thumbs are bitten in "Romeo and Juliet"
• Stage-play starter
• When Caesar is told to beware
• When Tony sings "Maria"
• When "Comedy Tonight" is sung
• "Hamlet" opener
• "Sleuth" starter
• Common time for character exposition, onstage
• Musical beginning
• When Antonio calls the world a stage
• When the Wicked Witch dies, in "Wicked"
• Opera opening
• Opera opening
• When the nude scene occurs in 10-Across
• Start of some entertainment
• When Sally sings "Mein Herr" in "Cabaret"
• When Emile sings "Some Enchanted Evening"
• Dramatic opener
• Play beginner
• First portion of a play
• When Valjean is released from prison
• B'way opening?
• Broadway start
• Half of "Waiting for Godot"
• When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in "The Book of Mormon"
• "Othello" opening
• Play period?
• When Stanley cries "Hey, Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
• First fifth of a Shakespeare play
• When Annie sings "Maybe"
• Theatrical opening
• It starts "Siegfried"
• Early CliffsNotes subheading
• When the story begins, perhaps
• Opera's start
• Opening of a play
• First part of "The Nutcracker"
• When Caesar is warned "Beware the ides of March"
• When the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears
• It follows a curtain-opening
• Opening segment
• "Hamlet" starter
• Opera start
• Exposition setting, often
• Onset of a plot
• When Valjean adopts Cosette
• Play's beginning
• When Caesar is warned to "Beware the Ides of March"
• Plot introducer
• When "Kansas City" is sung in "Oklahoma!"
• When the ghost of Old Hamlet appears
• Place for dramatic exposition
• It starts when the curtain rises
• When the play begins
• First part of a play (2 words)
• Beginning of a play (2 words)
• Start of a play (2 words)
• It starts when the curtain goes up
• Dramatic introduction?
• When Hamlet meets his father's ghost
• King Lear disinherits Cordelia here
• First part of "1776"
• When "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" is heard in "Carousel"
• When the soothsayer tells Caesar "Beware the ides of March"
• It starts when an overture's over
• When the stars come out?
• When Romeo first sees Juliet
• Opening on Broadway?
• Stage start
• Operatic opening
• Follower of a rising curtain
• It includes the opening scene
• Intermission preceder, maybe
• Dramatic opening?
• Teleplay opener
• When the soothsayer warns Caesar
• When "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is spoken in "Macbeth"
• With 66-Down, when Lady Macbeth says, "Leave all the rest to me"
• Play's first part
• Beginning of a play
• All of Sartre's "No Exit"?
• Elphaba sings “Defying Gravity” at the end of it
• When the story starts on stage
• Musical opener
• Phone warning follower, at times
• Play's opening segment
• Opening at the opera?
• When Juliet says, "Go ask his name"
• Starting segment of a musical
• When a play's conflict is often established
• Broadway opening?
• When Caesar is told to "Beware the ides of March"
• Exposition setting
• Opening part of a play
• "Playbill" header
• Script heading
• When the Battle of Yorktown occurs in "Hamilton"
• When Lear disowns Cordelia
• Part of a musical
• It's a start
• "Hamlet" beginning
• Play's opening part
• When "Alexander Hamilton" is sung in "Hamilton"
• Half of "Guys and Dolls"
• When Hamilton meets Burr, in "Hamilton"
• Drama starter?
• When Romeo meets Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
• Start to play?
• When "Time Warp" is sung in the musical "The Rocky Horror Show"
• Play part that follows an overture
• When the curtains open
• When Alexander meets Eliza, in "Hamilton"
• When Blanche meets Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
• First of five at the Globe Theatre
• When Lear divides his kingdom
• Opera piece
• Musical's beginning
• When the stage direction "Enter three Witches" appears in "Macbeth"
• When Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor
• When Elphaba sings "Defying Gravity" in "Wicked"
• Ballet opener
• When Elphaba and Glinda sing "Defying Gravity" in Broadway's "Wicked"
• Opening on a stage?
• When Hamilton arrives in New York City, in "Hamilton"
• Whence the line "Beware the ides of March" in "Julius Caesar"
• Start of a tragedy
• When "One Day More" is sung in "Les Misérables"