Deep backstage at the city's Ziggo Dome, an hour before showtime, Kings of Leon are recalling the first time they played Amsterdam.
A Taylor Swift concert begins with the massing, hours before showtime, of little girls outside the concert venue — the Hajj at Mecca, if it were sponsored by My Little Pony.
IT was three hours before showtime, and the cast of "West Side Story" was making dinner at the Surflight Theater cast house in Beach Haven.
— Minutes before showtime on the set of "Deal or No Deal," Wendi San George, the program's chief stylist, is trying to head off a crisis.
It was five o'clock on a Sunday in May, two hours before showtime, but already thousands of K-pop fans had flooded the concrete playa outside the Honda Center, a large arena in Anaheim, California.
At precisely 3 54, P.S.T. over an hour before showtime, hundreds upon hundreds of the burrata-plus appetizer plates were swept away with a loud clank, completely untouched by the guests who were still jamming through the door.
I arrived around 10 minutes before showtime and got the equivalent of a 10-row center view.
Roughly an hour before showtime, Ms. Spears insisted on a series of changes.
A couple of hours before showtime, a torrential rain fell in Brooklyn — batten-down-the-hatches stuff that doused the open-air seats and the lawn beyond.
It's the pictures that got small!" As co-founder Todd Quartararo fretted outside the Edwards Big Newport 6 theater before showtime, though, he was more concerned about the size of the crowd than the size of the pictures.
