MARSHALL FAMILY BUILDING THEATER IN BURBANK.Byline: Reed Johnson Reed Cameron Johnson (born December 8, 1976 in Riverside, California) is an outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League East division of Major League Baseball. He weighs 180 lb (82 kg) and is 5'10" tall. Daily News Staff Writer In his '60s and '70s sitcom prime, one of the few hits Garry Marshall didn't have a hand in was ``All in the Family.'' But he may want to borrow the show's title for his latest creative project. After leaving his imprint on movies (``Pretty Woman,'' ``Beaches'') and TV (``The Odd Couple,'' ``Happy Days''), the 61-year-old actor, playwright, director and producer is returning to an old enthusiasm: the stage. Earlier this week, construction crews broke ground on a vacant southwest Burbank lot that Marshall plans to convert into a 120-seat professional theater and office building by next fall. ``It has been a longtime dream of mine to build a small live-performance theater that features comedy in all forms,'' said the former New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. reporter. ``I hope my theater will bring enlightenment, entertainment and laughter to the community.'' While no specific plays or performance schedule have been announced, project manager Kathleen Marshall Kathleen Marshall (born 1962) is an American choreographer, director, and creative consultant. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Marshall graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School and Smith College. said the new theater would perform classic as well as contemporary works and also would be used for lectures, workshops and possibly movie screenings. She ought to know: The 28-year-old actress is Garry Marshall's daughter. A 1990 drama graduate of Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. , Kathleen Marshall said she ``definitely'' hopes to perform at the theater, and said that her father intends to direct there. Additional family members eventually may be involved with the theater, she said, but declined to reveal names. Garry Marshall's sister, director-actress Penny Marshall, won't be among them, her niece said, adding that, ``we hope she'll attend.'' Marshall's other sibling is TV producer Ronny Hallin (``Step by Step''). Garry Marshall has lived in nearby Toluca Lake for the past 28 years and maintains a production facility, Henderson Productions, on Riverside Drive A number of cities around the world have a Riverside Drive. In the United States:
Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for at least 10 years. ``He's lived in this area and wanted to remain in this area,'' said his daughter, who declined to reveal the new building's cost. The 12,000-square-foot, two-story structure will rise on the southeast corner of Riverside Drive and Rose Street, a couple of miles east of the burgeoning North Hollywood arts-theater district known as NoHo. The site formerly was occupied by an auto mechanic's shop that was severely damaged in the Northridge Earthquake The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6. , Kathleen Marshall said. When complete, the as-yet-unnamed theater would be the third professional Valley-area resident theater with more than 100 seats. The others are Theatre West in Universal City and Glendale's A Noise Within. The 100-seat threshold is significant because the Actor's Equity union stipulates higher pay rates for theaters with more than 99 seats. Kathleen Marshall said the theater is in the process of negotiating a contract with the union. David Cox Prominent people named David Cox:
``The more theater that comes in the Valley, the better off we are,'' he said. Garry Marshall's last major stage venture was directing ``Wrong Turn at Lungfish lungfish, common name for any of a group of fish belonging to the families Ceratodontidae and Lepidosirenidae, found in the rivers of South America, Africa, and Australia. Like the lobefins, the lungfishes are ancestrally related to the four-footed land animals. ,'' a comedy he co-wrote with Lowell Ganz Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel. Ganz grew up in Queens, New York. , at off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre in 1993. CAPTION(S): Photo, Map Photo: Show-biz vet Garry Marshall had been planning t o build a theater in the Valley for at least 10 years. Map: Burbank (Site of new theater) |
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