Related Clues:

• Run the roast
• Emcee's text
• Intro maestro
• Follow-up to a curtain opening
• Exposition place
• Dramatic beginning
• Broadway beginning
• Show opening
• Emcee's kickoff
• Nitery host
• Banquet host
• Chap. 1 preceder
• Party VIP
• Seacrest or Sajak
• Trebek, e.g.