Mr. Lubin, who owns the rights to his character, has committed the feisty grandmother to a string of European circus festival engagements, and is planning a theater tour with some of the best of the Continent's clowns.
Bathrooms, offices and an entry ramp have been constructed, while the open-plan theater space is weeks from being finished and painted.
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The performance, part of a five-night stand at the famed basement club, was one in a string of appearances that are gaining Mr. Terrasson adherents — not least the impresario George Wein, who, after witnessing one Terrasson appearance, decided that he should be part of a solo piano "summit" that he was planning for theaters in the metropolitan area and beyond.
"It was an extremely ambitious project," said Russell Johnson, the American acoustician whose company, Artec Consultants, was hired to help plan the theater and concert hall with Theater Projects Consultants of London.
Its director, Charles Reinhart, said the festival had a commitment from Durham, N.C., for residency at a planned 2,800-seat 2,800-seat
A report in the Arts, Briefly column on Saturday about the withdrawal of Dana Reeve, the widow of Christopher Reeve, from the planned Manhattan Theater Club production of "Brooklyn Boy" misstated the given name of the play's author.
To go with the wedding, the pair had planned street theater that they called a "Right Royal Orgy," to begin in London's Soho Square, proceed to Piccadilly Circus, and end at Westminster Abbey just when William and Kate were to be married.
Networks and studios approach their crisis control in wake of an event like Newtown in a methodical way, first starting with what's on TV, either programs or trailers, and what is planned for theaters.
"We have now increased our theater count to 1,263 locations and are planning to add more theaters again this coming week," Frank Rodriguez, Fox Searchlight's head of distribution, said in an email.
