"I was raised as a small kid in the theater," explained Ms. Frackowiak, who just turned 24.
A representative for the theater explained that it was an "art type".
Scott Miller, artistic director of New Line Theater in St . Louisand author of four books on musical theater, explained: "A theater song has to advance character or plot.
Dave Bowell, a board member of the New York Deaf Theater, explained the consternation in an e-mail message.
"Well, we heard there wasn't another one for a few centuries," said Emily Wallen, a Columbia senior majoring in theater, explaining what brought her and her friends out into the chill.
The ad features Barton sitting in an empty theater explaining how he was shot in the face and neck, adding that 48,000 Americans will be killed by firearms in the next four years unless lawmakers take action.
And that morning, after talking with the visitor from America, they were off to tape a six-part miniseries for Catalan television "about life in a hotel". "We have start to do theater," explained Mir, "and now we are doing TV.
Activist theater (explaining an important issue by acting - be sure to adopt a theme if this is your reason for the street theater).
"Unlike reading a book, or watching a television show, theater is communal," Jack Viertel, creative director of Jujamcyn Theaters, explains.
"In 1939, the Soviets closed all Bukharan Jewish theaters -- we had to speak only Uzbek, Tajik or Russian in the theaters," explained Semyon Aulov, who was an actor and teacher at the National Theater in Tashkent and is the group's artistic director.
