These days, you can reserve most of the city's most sought-after tables, theater seats and hotel rooms just a few months in advance.
LITTLE FIREHOUSE THEATER "Table Manners," comedy by Alan Ayckbourn; Bergen County Players.
Additional details of the first house include a whirlpool and an entertainment room with a pool table and a theater.
Before and after retirement, she was active in sports (table tennis), bridge, theater and opera-going, read widely and traveled extensively with Jack.
Seated at a table in his theater one afternoon, Mr. Hammerstein, a bearded 30-year-old with a British accent, said: "There's a science to ordering it.
Dressed informally, a green cardigan over a brown sweater and a checked shirt, he took his place at the end of a long table in the theater's boardroom.
He also added elephant footprints on the floor to guide visitors, a jigsaw puzzle table, the puppet theater and art station and an area for viewing cartoons and browsing books from the 78-year-old Babar series (which was explored in a recent exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan).
In the darkened theater, tables are set around a small raised stage.
Not too far away, at separate tables, are the theater owners of most of Broadway, the Nederlanders or the Shuberts.
It had air-conditioning, reading tables, a puppet theater, records you could listen to with earphones, a globe.
