first-nighter

"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.

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010

"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.

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010

"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.

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010

"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.

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010

It will almost certainly be a "first-nighter," possibly with some SF-related lyrics thrown in.

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The first-nighter was thrilling, but the show quickly slumped in the weeks that followed as the shtick failed to stick.

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Another first-nighter is John McCain, who has certainly not always been on the president's team.

CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004 2004

Another first-nighter is John McCain, who has certainly not always been on the president's team.

CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004 2004

He is not a "first-nighter," who, by the light of the midnight oil, dips his mighty pen in the ink which is to seal on to-morrow's broad-sheet, as he proudly imagines, the professional fate of the artists who are submitted for his censure or his praise.

Mary Anderson J. M. Farrar

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.

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