doug lowry i knew that we would shut it down on july 1. so on june 30 of the summer, i decided to go down at 5 p.m. and just by myself walk down the orchestra level and stand for a moment and appreciate the presence of the old eastman theater. the next afternoon i hear a cacophonous sound about 2:00pm. and i look out my window, which is across the street from the eastman theater. and i see these dumpsters, and these workers are coming out dumping these seats into these dumpsters at about one every 15 seconds. so i walked over to the hall at 5:00pm on july 1 exactly 24 hours later. and it was at that moment that the chill came upon me, because the hall had been gutted. michael flannery what we explained to people, what we are doing in the planning stage, they kind of shake their head and "yes, we know its coming." but i don't think anyone understood, maybe on the committee, the magnitude of what the theatre was going to look like as we demo'd during the fist five days. jamal rossi when they started building the walls for the balcony, the ve