How To Use Opening night In A Sentence
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Nerves were to the fore on opening night as the cast stuttered with their lines and generally put on a wooden performance in the first act.
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Welcome to the madhouse that is the build-up to the opening night of a pantomime.
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She reckoned he just wanted to doss off early because it was opening night for a Pinter play.
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Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today that the world premiere of Mary and Max, a clay animation feature film from Academy Award-winning short film creators Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs is the Opening Night Film for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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The tour has been timed to allow visitors to attend the opening night of the Verona opera season.
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Many opening nights at the theatre were turned into highly visible focal points for rallies against government policy.
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She had wangled an invitation to the opening night.
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Vera Wilde is a fable about the way society eats its heroes, "Shotgun Players founder Patrick Dooley quoted director Maya Gurantz's anthropophagic line when introducing Chris Jeffries 'heady musical on opening night.
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Last night was the star-studded opening night for ‘Spamalot’ the musical.
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With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
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The audience was / were enthusiastic on the opening night of the play.
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If you can come up with a name and he chooses it for his new pub, you will win a VIP night, including loads of free drink, at the boozer's opening night.
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The trope of opening night is related to a thematic motif: disaster versus success.
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And for the first time in long while, opening night featured a superior film by a major auteur.
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Whether she will cloak herself in it as she takes up her dress circle seat for the opening night of the return of Scottish Opera this May is still to be seen.
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The audience was / were enthusiastic on the opening night of the play.
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But there were no complaints from the capacity crowd at Darlington Civic Theatre on opening night.
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We didn't know, but they had secretly filmed it on the opening night.
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The tour has been timed to allow visitors to attend the opening night of the Verona opera season.
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The win capped a fun-filled opening night for Giants fans, who saw the retired Strahan hold up the Lombardi Trophy just minutes before the opening kickoff.
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As well as the riotous opening night party, artists were especially grateful for the exposure - and new creative partners - the Expo brought them.
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Loser buys the winner two rounds of drinks on opening night at the hotel's posh bar.
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Advance previews include the opening night film, The School of Rock, starring Jack Black, the Sundance favourite, Pieces of April, and Argentinean heart-warmer Valentin.
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I'd like to tell you some of the good things the Mafia is doing," Dean Martin drawled one opening night at the Mob-run Sands, pausing to wait for the half-shocked, half-delighted laughter to build.
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He confessed that after two days of the Games, and two gold medals on the opening night before an exultant home crowd, he was mentally drained when he faced van den Hoogenband on the third day.
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Plenty of detail on every aspect of the film from pre-production to opening night is covered.
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And tonight the curtain will go up for the opening night of the open-air production in Blackpool's Stanley Park.
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She went up on her lines out of fear on opening night.
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She had wangled an invitation to the opening night.
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The princess attended the opening night of the opera.
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He takes us through every step of the production process, from securing finance to assembling a crew, then on to auditions, rehearsals and the opening night.
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The audience was / were enthusiastic on the opening night of the play.
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There was a festive atmosphere in the theatre on opening night, and many in attendance were seriously yucking it up.
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At its controversial opening night Nijinsky's choreography was considered almost as shocking as the churning rhythms and clamorous orchestration of Stravinsky's score.
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Both technical aspects were designed effectively, although unfortunately on this opening night both sound and lighting had missed cues and glitches.
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The audience for the opening night booed so loudly and for so long that the conductor halted the production to allow the tumult to subside.
Times, Sunday Times
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The audience for the opening night booed so loudly and for so long that the conductor halted the production to allow the tumult to subside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gary Power also directed this production and the fact that there wasn't a fluffed line on opening night is a credit to Gary's skills as a director and the commitment of the cast.
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The audience on opening night with fulsome in their appreciation of yet another very fine production by Waterford Dramatic Society.
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The president gave a speech at the opening night of the convention.
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I attended the opening night which received loud ovations from the audience at the end.
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The opening night performance showed signs of strain as Doyle flubbed some lines, performance energy dipped and Scottish accents slipped in and out of authentic focus.
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The invite includes a twirl around the opening night party at the Roxy, so I'll get to hobnob with some wannabe Culture Club kids and celebutantes.
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The opening night at the casino on March 1 proved popular although nobody bagged the maximum potential payout of 1.2 million litas.
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The first/opening night of her new film was a great success.
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The pilot edition was screened on the opening night of BBC3, broadcast simultaneously by BBC2.
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The opening night at the main fair is called "The Vernissage" which technically means "varnishing" in French but in this case means private preview.
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The theatre was packed for the opening night.
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Then we said our goodbyes, but not before I'd wangled an opening night ticket out of him for Saturday Night Fever.
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The audience was / were enthusiastic on the opening night of the play.
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For some reason they thought that Philip Roth would be attending the Opening Night of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, which every year offers staged dramatic readings of work bysome of the finest Jewish authors.
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When he did appear, just before opening night he looked an impressive figure in his expensive clothes.
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Busy with his own show, he had little time for learning lines and so wrote them on his arm for the opening night.
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On opening night, he alone of the main players managed a consistent performance.
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I wonder if the half-empty auditorium on opening night has made him rethink that commitment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The princess attended the opening night of the opera.
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The logistics of opening night were carefully planned to keep the adoring crowd at bay.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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I love the excitement of opening night at the opera.
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Soft Skull publisher and all-around NYC belletrist Richard Nash recently posted a scathing opinion piece on this site about Book Expo America's decision to limit floor hours (and effectively cancel an opening night party) at BEA 2010.
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Opening night saw a desultory 20 people rattling around in a big, airy room ready for 70 diners.
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They are smiling so euphorically at a San Francisco rally that they might be at the opening night of the second coming.
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On opening night, the amiable owner appeared in a bandido costume.
Smithsonian Mag
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There are several hearty laughs to be had, and the hesitations and flubbed lines of opening night will surely disappear as the run continues.
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The opening night performance showed signs of strain as Doyle flubbed some lines, performance energy dipped and Scottish accents slipped in and out of authentic focus.
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KOINANGE, LAGOS BUREAU CHIEF: Opening night at Lagos 'National Theatre was standing room only, all eager to see the Nobel laureate's latest attempt in art imitating life.
CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2001
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The audience for the opening night booed so loudly and for so long that the conductor halted the production to allow the tumult to subside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under James Conlon's sensitive and idiomatic leadership, and after some rough moments in the overture on opening night, the orchestra sparkled as it kept the action moving, sprinkling Rossinian pixy dust over the assembled and deftly changing gears from the frivolity later on for a few tender moments.
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As an anthropological experiment/exercise in masochism, I dragged my husband and some pals to see Bride Wars on opening night earlier this year and I’m still scarred.
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Opening night brought us top-notch performances that took the mind off the production's shortcomings.
Times, Sunday Times
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She reckoned he just wanted to doss off early because it was opening night for a Pinter play.
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The tour has been timed to allow visitors to attend the opening night of the Verona opera season.
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There are several hearty laughs to be had, and the hesitations and flubbed lines of opening night will surely disappear as the run continues.
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On the opening night we had a little extra ‘fun’ when some ribbon on her tutu slowly came unstitched during the opening movement.
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Metropolitan Opera opening nights are always special, even in this age of the deglamorization of opera.
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Not assisting the actors is the unwieldy dialogue, which caused an unusual amount of line fluffs on opening night.
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One of the great pleasures of Barney's Version, the opening night feature of the Hamptons International Film Festival, was the parade of Canadian filmmakers in cameo roles: David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, among them.
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An opening night premiere party will follow the screening, and all films will show at the Oak Street Cinema.
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The audience was buoyant throughout the opening night.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw this movie on opening night last week at the Avalon, in the heart of think-tanky Northwest Washington and I left with a greater sense of the threats and challenges facing the world than most of what I might garner from watching mainstream news.
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The ballet's opening night was a huge success.
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With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
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‘Va, pensiero,’ the opera's most famous excerpt, was even encored on opening night.
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It's the opening night at the Fulton County Fair in this tiny town in northwest Ohio, and the grandstands are packed for the first round of the event that is the annual highlight of this rural chivaree — Demolition Derby.
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The theatre was packed for the opening night.
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She walked through the door on the opening night of his first solo venture back in 1978.
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At least, that's what I expected, when she claimed on opening night to be an equalitarian.
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Kudos as well to Gordon whose pipes and gams were in fine form on opening night, giving a stellar spin on this seminal musical theatre role.
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A one-off opening night, a showing, an exhibition, an extravaganza -- call it what you will.
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But for long stretches, he was left alone onstage, looking, in François St. - Aubin's costumes, much like the singer Meat Loaf (a resemblance frequently commented on after opening night), and his singing reflected his lack of direction.
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The tour has been timed to allow visitors to attend the opening night of the Verona opera season.
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Opening night, Friday, July 13, will feature two floors of Calgary's finest DJs, including Delerious and Phunk on one floor, and Testa and SOB in the basement of this alcohol-free venue.
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She insisted on fresh flowers every day placed next to a photograph of Stephen and herself at the opening night of Crystal Springs.
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But BRB showed us that they took them very seriously when on opening night no fewer than nine of the twelve fairies and their cavaliers were principal dancers.
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Guess audiences will have to wait till the opening night to find out if the adaptation hooks them as much as it did the director.
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Did he grow less experienced as opening night drew nearer?
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The audience for the opening night booed so loudly and for so long that the conductor halted the production to allow the tumult to subside.
Times, Sunday Times
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As far as opening nights go, there were no signs of jitters or stage fright.
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Five thousand people signed up for membership before the first roulette wheel was spun ensuring that as the showgirls high-kicked on the opening night, the Opera House Casino was already a sure thing.
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The opening night vernissage will benefit the Norton Museum of Art.
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It's the opening night at the Fulton County Fair in this tiny town in northwest Ohio, and the grandstands are packed for the first round of the event that is the annual highlight of this rural chivaree—Demolition Derby.
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We saw 'Riverdance' on its opening night.
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A travelling circus has been destroyed by last weekend's gusty weather just days after its opening night in Swindon.
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A preponderance of live music met the art deco glory of the Paramount Theatre on opening night of Oakland Ballet's third fall repertory program.
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The president gave a speech at the opening night of the convention.
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Rue McClanahan (Picture) Opening night of the classic Broadway musical 'Finian's Rainbow' held at the St. James Theatre.
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To judge from the roars of approval on opening night, audiences will be finding new visual marvels to savor in this production for many years to come.
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Opening night, and the smell of cooked food fills the backstage area.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, the girls were having their own little ritual opening night chat.
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It may have been opening night jitters, but that doesn't excuse the remainder of the cast from constantly tripping over their lines.
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He died on the opening night of my one-woman show Re:Joyce.
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The local evening paper lavished praise on Oasis after their opening night in Aberdeen, but griped it would have been better value for money if the band talked more to the audience.
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The production is not without its problems: opening night, at any rate, featured a couple technical flubs, and often the music drowned out the performers' voices.
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For some performers, the idea of winging their opening night in a new venue would be the stuff of nightmares - naked on the first day of school-type fiascos.
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This cheese, served as a nibble, was stale, dry and tough enough to make one wonder if it was left over from some opening night ceremonial.
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I'd like to tell you some of the good things the Mafia is doing," Dean Martin drawled one opening night at the Mob-run Sands, pausing to wait for the half-shocked, half-delighted laughter to build.
When the Rat Pack ruled supreme
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There, standing on top of a rather large, dusty old theatrical trunk, projecting all the enthusiasm of a ringmaster on the opening night of the circus, was the magician.
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It's a wonder I wasn't strangled before opening night, but at that age, precocious is cute.
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On opening night, he alone of the main players managed a consistent performance.
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The logistics of opening night were carefully planned to keep the adoring crowd at bay.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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The tour has been timed to allow visitors to attend the opening night of the Verona opera season.
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They were suspicious of four opening nights, thinking a fastie was being pulled.
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The Bloor, Toronto's venerable rep cinema, was packed for opening night film, Lolo's Child, by hometown director Romeo Candido.
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This music is now far beyond his reach - even with downward transpositions, he had to omit the climactic high note in his last-act aria on opening night.
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Opening night here, the semi-famous participants included soap star Linda Dano and tabloid columnist Cindy Adams.
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Although advertised as a Count Basie celebration, both sets on opening night featured a lot of Duke Ellington, thus providing a perfect lead-in to Jazz at Lincoln Center's climactic Essentially Ellington concert this Saturday which will be webcast live, at which three prize-winning high school big bands will put up their Dukes alongside JaLC majordomo Wynton Marsalis.
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The audience was / were enthusiastic on the opening night of the play.
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came the opening night audience's unprompted reaction.
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After opening night, the three piled into Bill's car and headed back to his place for an impromptu jam.
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The logistics of opening night were carefully planned to keep the adoring crowd at bay.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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We ' ve got the exact sample of the mellotron on ' Strawberry Fields, ' " Joey Curatolo said last week at the Neil Simon Theatre, a few days after opening night.
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Opening night for the Gaslight Follies is Saturday, May 18.
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The 500 tickets for the opening night sold out within three hours earlier this year.
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As the ghost of the legendary actor John Barrymore in the new Broadway comedy "I Hate Hamlet," he's perfectly cast: he's a brilliant actor, he's mercurial and he once had a reputation as a world-class carouser, Now, a month after opening night, Williamson is staying right in character-and embroidering his own colorful legend.
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