And once the theater has been made first rate, the committee will figure out how to divvy up the remaining space in the building.
Presently, the restaurant Upstairs at the Pudding occupies much of the building's second floor. But as a result of Harvard's acquisition of the property, the restaurant will leave by the middle of this coming summer, Illingworth says.
With the restaurant gone, space will be available in a renovated Pudding building to create offices for student groups, or even a larger area that could be rented out for meetings, Illingworth says.
"We'd like to keep a place for social events or parties," he added.
And at this point in planning stages for renovations, Roiff says, the sky's the limit for the Hasty Pudding building.
"We're at this really exciting point right now," Roiff says. "It's sort of like right before Christmas--there's just so much energy."