first night vs staging

first night

noun
  • The first public performance of a play or other show, normally assumed to be held in the evening. 

  • The first night after marriage. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, night. 

staging

noun
  • A performance of a play 

  • The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity. 

  • An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment. 

  • A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building. 

  • The act or process of putting on an event. 

  • The act of journeying in stagecoaches. 

  • The business of running stagecoaches. 

  • The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it. 

  • The scenery and/or organization of actors' movements on stage. 

  • The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression. 

How often have the words first night and staging occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )