It will almost certainly be a "first-nighter," possibly with some SF-related lyrics thrown in. From Wordnik.com. [Square Dance on Ganymede] Reference
Another first-nighter is John McCain, who has certainly not always been on the president's team. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004] Reference
The first-nighter was thrilling, but the show quickly slumped in the weeks that followed as the shtick failed to stick. From Wordnik.com. [Cher…Diva returns to Caesars in Vegas! August 30th… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference
"The wonderful part of his work was the fact that he was able to tell the very simple story of distillation ... with a lot of style and with his iconic metal work voice," commented first-nighter Cedric Suming. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery] Reference
Had not every male first-nighter been conscious of it?. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
"They call you the best-dressed first-nighter in New York.". From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
Jack's not only a first-nighter, he comes mighty clost to bein 'a every-nighter. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfville Nights] Reference
I was on the Long Branch boat the other day and met a well-known Empire first-nighter. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Frohman: Manager and Man] Reference
Ideas events on the New Haven Green, yet I treasured her - she really did stand out from that oft-pompous patron/first-nighter crowd. From Wordnik.com. [New Haven Advocate: News] Reference
It will all begin tonight with coverage of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's preshow opening keynote, taking over from longtime first-nighter Bill Gates. From Wordnik.com. [All Things Digital] Reference
He became a first-nighter, knew all the chorus girls it was possible for him to become acquainted with, learned to drink but never learned to enjoy it. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
The only man present was Edgar Tomlinson, who is Red Gap's most prominent first-nighter and does the Lounger-in-the-Lobby column for the Recorder, reviewing all the new films in an able and fearless manner. From Wordnik.com. [Ma Pettengill] Reference
The audience was brilliant; indeed, though I had been an ardent first-nighter for a year or two in my callow youth, I think I have never seen such a representation of fashion and genius in America, except at the opera. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Andes] Reference
A persistent first-nighter, and most of his novels lend themselves in a rare degree to stage adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Abroad he had been a valiant first-nighter; but he learned presently that at home the house for a premiere was composed largely of people whose tickets came from the exposition of theatre "paper" throughout the week in their storefronts -- it was on Monday evening that they were paid off; and he found himself little disposed to join in judgment with a raft of small shop-keepers, until he recollected that a premiere was not a premiere, after all -- the play's footing having already been secured at some other place, at some other time, before some other audience. From Wordnik.com. [With the Procession] Reference
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