first night

She saw Jarvis before the curtain making a first-night's speech.

It was on a muggy December evening that he accompanied Lady Marchsea and her eminent husband to a first-night performance.

They may be put into two main groups—the first-night deadheads and the other-nights deadheads—and there are subdivisions.

But whether, after the first-night criticisms, the piece will do, is a question that must be left to the future for solution.