ACTI

• 59 Cats opener

• A critic might rate it a C

• All Richard Rogers saw before walking out of Hair

• B'way opening

• Beginning of a musical

• Beginning of The Tempest

• Broadway beginning

• Broadway opener

• Broadway opening

• Broadway start

• Cabaret opener

• Common time for character exposition, onstage

• Curtain opener

• Curtain raiser

• Curtain-parting time

• Curtain-raising time

• Drama beginning

• Drama opening

• Drama start

• Dramatic beginning

• Dramatic opener

• Dramatic opening

• Dramatic start

• Exposition setting

• First part of a Broadway show: 2 wds.

• First part of a musical

• First part of a play

• First portion of a play

• Follow-up to a curtain opening

• Half of Waiting for Godot

• Hamlet opener

• Hamlet starter

• Henry V opener

• In Macbeth, it begins When shall we three meet again

• In Macbeth, it opens with thunder and lightning

• Initial fifth of a Shakespeare play

• Initial part of a play

• Intermission preceder

• It comes before intermission

• It contains the opening scene

• It follows a curtain-raising

• It follows a curtain's rise

• It follows the overture

• It may be set up behind a curtain

• It may follow an overture

• It may follow the dimming of lights

• It often follows an overture

• It opens on Broadway

• It opens with thunder and lightning, in Macbeth

• It starts at curtain time

• It starts when the curtain goes up

• King Lear disinherits Cordelia here

• Lights-out time

• Macbeth opener

• Moss Hart auto-biography

• Musical beginning

• Musical opening

• Musical starter

• Opener on Broadway

• Opening curtain follower

• Opening of a play

• Opening on Broadway

• Opening scenes

• Opera opener

• Opera opener, often

• Opera opening

• Opera synopsis heading

• Overture follower

• Pal Joey opening

• Play beginner

• Play beginning

• Play opener

• Play opener, usually

• Play part

• Play period?

• Play section

• Play starter

• Play time?

• Play-synopsis subhead

• Play's early heading

• Play's first part

• Play's kickoff?

• Play's opening

• Play's start

• Playbill heading

• Plot introducer

• Pre-intermission period

• Prologue follower

• Script starter

• Show opener

• Show opening

• Show starter

• Shrew's opening

• Sleuth starter

• Stage beginning

• Stage opener

• Stage opening

• Stage start

• Stage-play starter

• Start for a playwright

• Start in literature

• Start of a drama

• Start of a musical

• Start of a play

• Start of a show

• Start of a Simon opus

• Start of Cymbeline e.g.

• Start of Hamlet

• Start of many a play

• Start of many plays

• Start of some entertainment

• Start of the play

• Start on a stage

• Tempest begining

• The Frogs kickoff, e.g.

• Theater opening

• Theatrical kick-off

• Theatrical opening

• Twelfth Night beginning

• Twelfth Night opener

• What the curtain opens on

• When Antonio calls the world a stage

• When Caesar is told Beware the ides of March

• When Caesar is told to beware

• When Caesar is warned

• When Carmen meets Don Jos

• When Carmen sings the Habanera

• When Comedy Tonight is sung

• When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in The Book of Mormon

• When Eliza sings Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

• When Emile sings Some Enchanted Evening

• When Giselle dies in Giselle

• When Good Morning Baltimore plays in Hairspray

• When Hamlet meets his father's ghost

• When Hamlet says Frailty, thy name is woman!

• When Hamlet sees Hamlet

• When Hamlet sees the ghost

• When Hamlet's father's ghost appears

• When King Lear disinherits Cordelia

• When Lear disinherits Cordelia

• When Macbeth meets the witches

• When Maggie calls herself a cat on a hot tin roof

• When Mercutio delivers the Queen Mab speech

• When Romeo meets Juliet

• When Romeo spies Juliet

• When Sally sings Mein Herr in Cabaret

• When Seventy Six Trombones is first heard

• When Tevye sings If I Were a Rich Man

• When the curtain rises

• When the ghost appears, in Hamlet

• When the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears

• When the Habanera is sung in Carmen

• When the lights dim

• When the play starts

• When the shipwreck occurs in The Tempest

• When the Soothsayer warns Caesar

• When the tempest occurs in The Tempest

• When the Wicked Witch dies, in Wicked

• When the witches first appear in Macbeth

• When thumbs are bitten in Romeo and Juliet

• When to open the curtain

• When Tony sings Maria

• When Valjean is released from prison

• When we meet Quince and Bottom

• Whence Nothing will come of nothing in King Lear

• Where a play starts

• Where Hamlet meets Dad

• Where the play begins

• Where to see a dramatic beginning?