Once the set was in the theater, "dry tech" officially began, a process in which the technical elements are tested before actors are added to the mix.
Once behind the curtain, the room reverberated with distinct sounds of dogs barking, birds chirping and the clatter of steps, while also emitting that indelible odor of the theater, dry ice.
For weeks, the strike had turned affluent neighborhoods into ghost towns, closing shopping malls, theaters, dry cleaners and health clubs.
"Somebody who will assist you or your friends with tickets to theater, laundry, dry cleaning, car parking".
There may well be, as one of her lawyers claims, "thousands and thousands of Debbies across the U.S.," but it is this particular one who makes it difficult to leave the theater with dry eyes and an untouched heart.
A motorist might stop here on the way from Denver to Jackson, Wyo., but otherwise it lies forgotten most of the year, a town of 1,181 people with no traffic lights, movie theater or dry cleaner in the least populated state in the nation.
And if you think deconstructionist, experimental theater must be dry and dreary, the Half Straddle, an emerging troupe, has another surprise for you.
When we left the theater, my mother dried her eyes and said, "My, what that mother did for her children!" Mama Rose the monster?
Summers in the Catskills, plus access to the Apollo Theater (his father's dry cleaning and tailor shop was nearby), convinced Mr. Bernstein that show business was for him.
And while its high concept occasionally seems to shackle the play, the anchor of the production by the Sabab Theater is a wonderfully dry performance by Mr. Bassam himself as the producer, called here the Speaker.
There are a new hospital, a movie theater, two florists, four dry cleaners, three "big box" stores, 20 fast-food restaurants, and, because it's a military base, 13 barber shops and a commissary selling groceries for up to 30% less than at civilian supermarkets.
