Refurbished Buzzards Bay, Mass., theater set to reopen as alternative cinema.

Byline: Christie Smythe

Sep. 14--BUZZARDS BAY -- Driveway repaving? Done.

Theater seats and screens? Ordered.

Ice machine? On the way.

And the rest? Coming together.

Just about six months ago, Wareham resident Jeff Avery took over Buzzards Bay's dilapidated former movie theater with dreams of turning it into a bargain-priced specialty cinema.

Now the countdown to the scheduled opening date is on. The Bourne Scallop Festival, held across the street from the theater along the Cape Cod Canal, starts Sept. 22.

Avery hopes to have the theater ready to open on that day.

"Everything is moving along fairly …