During a preview tour, Mr. Trotter telegraphed the sensitivities.

From 5 p.m. to midnight a preview tour, followed by dinner and dancing at the Washington Club Hall, will cost $100 a person.

Since it wasn't possible to spend the night before the ribbon-cutting ceremony, I took a preview tour last month.

Visitors were shuttled to the farm for preview tours.

On a preview tour of the museum last week, one had the sense of being transported from the everyday world straight to the set of a modern-day Oz.

In December 2009 he started a preview tour of Crazy on the Outside, a film that debuted in January 2010.

A preview tour of the park was held in October 2008 at Graham Oaks.

"You can just about read the whole history of the Arapaho tribe in these pictographs," Mr. Acevedo said during a preview tour of the exhibition.

In March, 2007, Hanson began a "preview tour" to promote The Walk and give fans a taste of recent work.