WEBVTT AND "THIS, TRULY IS IOWA". ♪ ERIC: ON NEWTON’S TOWN SQUARE, THERE’S DRAMA UNDER THE DILAPIDATED AWNING. CONSTRUCTION CREWS HAVE BEEN RIPPING APART THE CENTURY-OLD TOWN THEATER FOR MONTHS, -- >> PART OF THE DISCOVERY WHERE THESE MOLDINGS. ERIC: BLENDING ORNATE HISTORY WITH LEATHERED COMFORT. >> THERE IS IN A BAD SEAT IN THE HOUSE -- >> BUT ONE DAY BEFORE OPENING; >> SO EXCITED. ERIC: EVERYONE WAS ON EDGE. BECAUSE THE THEATER’S DRAMA QUEEN HAD JUST PULLED UP - >> TODAY IS YOUR DAY, YES IT IS. SNOR[SNORTING] ERIC: READY TO INSPECT HER SILVER SCREAMED PALACE -- SILV SCREEN PALACE. AFTER A QUICK POTTYBREAK AT THE TREE OUT FRONT -- [LAUGHTER] JOY MINIPIG HAS BEEN A FIXTURE ERIC:JOY MINIPIG HAS BEEN A FIXTURE AT NEWTON’S THEATER SINCE THE BLEEKER’S BOUGHT IT SIX YEARS AGO, AND DIDN’T WANT TO LEAVE THEIR PET AT HOME ALL DAY. >> WHAT HE THINKS, JOY? COME ON! THIS IS YOUR NEW PLACE. ERIC: BUT JOY HADN’T STEPPED HOOF INSIDE SINCE RENOVATIONS STARTED IN AUGUST. HER NEW OFFICE OVERLOOKING THE SQUARE? PASSED THE SMELL TES AND WITHIN MINUTES -- >> GOOD GIRL! ERIC: SHE WAS POSING FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS, PERFORMING THE ACT NEWTON MOVIEGOERS DROOL OVER. >> GET THE GRE ONE, THERE YOU GO. ERIC: AND SPRAWLING OUT ON HER NEW PURPLE DAYBED, SATISFIED THAT THE NEW STUFFED ANIMALS FOR SALE NEXT TO THE TWIZZLERS LOOKED ENOUGH LIKE HER. >> SHE IS VERY MUCH A DIVA. YES YOU ARE, AREN’ YOU? ERIC: BECAUSE TH SIX-YEAR-OLD BRICKWORK HAS BECOME LIKE A LOCAL CELEBRITY. >> PUT THIS THEATER ON THE MAP. EVEN BACK WHEN THE THEATER WAS ROUG >> I SAID, WE HAD 4-D EXPERIENCE, IT WAS RIDICULOUS. [LAUGHTER] ERIC: BUT TWO MONTHS OF OVERHAULING WERE PAYING OFF. UNTIL THE THEATER’S CENTURY OLD FIXTURES WALKED AWAY FROM THE CONSTRUCTION SIT >> THERE IS NO GOING TO A BIG BOX STORE TOGETHER REPLACED. ERIC: DAWN’S NEIGHBORS HAD VOLUNTEERED SO MANY HOURS TO HELP RESTORE THE THEATER. >> I FELT LIKE I LET DOWN THE COMMUNITY. ERIC: THE SHOWPIECES WERE GONE. UNTIL THOSE SAME NEIGHBORS SHARE THE POST SO MANY TIMES, IT REACHED "WEST END ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE" IN DES MOINES. >> YEAH, WE’VE GOT THEM. THEY CAME RIGHT OVER ONE HOUR LATER, AND THEY GOT THEM BACK. [LAUGHTER] ERIC: NO ONE’S SURE HOW THE LIGHTS ENDED UP IN DES MOINES. BUT RIGHT NOW, THEY DON’T CARE. THEY ARE BACK -- GOOD GIRL. SHE IS A TODDLER MENTALITY WITH A TEENAGE ATTITUDE. ERIC: THEY’RE BACK, AND THEIR STAR’S READY FOR OPENING NIGHT. IN THE THEATER WHERE EVERY MOVIE BRINGS OUT JOY [LAUGHTER] THE POTTY TRAINED. IS BACK AT THE NEWTON THEATE