preopening

About 5,000 residents of Bilbao attended a preopening extravaganza outside the museum on the night preceding the official opening, featuring an outdoor light show and concerts.

"The service and the ambiance make eating sushi so much more a wonderful experience," Moshe Wolfson said during a preopening tasting at the Haikara Grill.

Warner LeRoy, an owner of the nearly completed Russian Tea Room, is planning a heavy-duty soft opening, with several lavish charity events during its preopening period.

But with the project still on the drawing board, the center is staging a preopening show in which 27 artists have insinuated their work into the building, frequently in site-specific ways.

Barring another revolution, at least a dozen others among the works that the museum acquired in its preopening buying spree would seem to have even less of a chance of seeing the light of day.

The fund agreed to post the Equity bonds for a Broadway Alliance production, saving a producer heavy outlays in the preopening budget, and to contribute money to a separate fund to help the producers complete financing for their plays.

On Friday she went to Los Angeles to promote "Taboo" on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," part of a preopening television blitz that will also include appearances on "The Today Show," "Dateline NBC" and "Access Hollywood."