Possible Clues:

• *Theater debt
• Exciting Broadway event
• The possibility of a job at sea? Thing is, it's all for show - the first of many if those play-actors are successful?
• First time Julius Caesar appeared on world's stage, for instance - a window of opportunity and a dark period?
• Only the man upstairs was there for premiere of The Big Bang perhaps
• Dress rehearsal follower
• Uncovering tips not in gambling handbooks towards first time out
• Only God was there perhaps for premiere
• Broadway premiere
• Theater event