The show started at 7:45, they hold your seats until 7:30 (which is about when the girls from the boat start wandering at the front row). The closer to 7:30 you arrive the less seating choice you will have. For us, we used the time to take some photos with the photopass photographer and relax.
Our animal Kingdom day was pretty successful. We arrived at 12:30 from MK. We strolled around Pandora until our 1:15 FoP FP. After - we listened to the drum band in Pandora and at 2pm, we left for our Tusker House reservation (2:15). At 3:45 we left Tusker for our Safari FP. After that we visited the monkeys and the jungle trek. At 5:30 we headed towards Dino land and rode PrimeEvil Whirl, Dinosaur, and Triceratops Spin, then to Everest with FP (and then my daughter and I rode again in regular line and my son did 5 trips single rider!), then grabbed drinks/snacks, watched ROL, and when it ended at 8, we went back to Pandora to see it at night. Took some pictures there and at 8:18 hoped into line for Navi with a 10 minute wait posted. Stopped to watch Tree Lighting on our way out of the park (8:50). Park closed at 8:30 with 2nd ROL at 9pm.