Stage Area

·      The stage is 69 x 27 feet, with a proscenium opening 34 feet wide. 

·      The last upstage batten (usually with a full stage black) is three feet from the upstage wall, providing a crossover, and the main curtain hangs about a foot behind the proscenium. Thus, the maximum playing depth of the stage is 23 feet. The legs (black velour) that define stage width provide a playing width of about 30 feet. 

·      There is an additional 4 feet of playing area in front of the main curtain. The floor at the extreme front 24 inches of this space is a grillwork covering over the footlight trough. One can walk on it, but ladies in high-heeled shoes beware. 

·      New main curtain, legs, traveler, traveler track, a full width black curtain, and borders were installed in 2011. 

·      Access to the house area from the stage is usually through the wing space on either side of the stage to stairs and through a door to the house. If requested, a center set of stairs may be put in over the orchestra pit for direct access from the stage to the house and vice versa. 

Stage Floor

·      The stage floor is a 1983-built Douglas fir edge-grained, tongue and grove surface painted gray. The floor is not waxed. The surface flooring is underlain by plywood over wooden floor joists. 

Wing Space and Scenery Storage

·      Space for storage of scenery and set pieces is limited. Wing space at stage right with the legs in their normal full-stage position is 10 x 27 feet. The rigging lock rail and hand lines are stage right and room must be left for their operation. The door from the dressing room area enters at upstage right and people waiting to go on stage tend to accumulate here. 

·      There is a stage manager table in the down stage area of this space. Available at the table location is a Clear-Com station, dimmable light, work light switches, white and blue running lights, and the paging system. 

·      Wing space at stage left is 14 x 27 feet and unobstructed except for the piano garage in the upstage left corner (6 x 9 feet) and storage of the cinema speaker tower. The top of the piano garage is available for storage (props, cases, etc). Downstage right is the caged ladder to the upper fly rail (a hemp system) that controls the borders 

·      Directly behind the stage in the dressing room area, there is a small scenery storage room. This 7 x 15 foot room also houses all of the theater electrical service panels and the dimmer banks, so only about half of it is available. Access to this room is through a 5 foot wide by 16 foot high scenery doorway at upstage center. This doorway blocks the crossover space behind the last upstage drop and makes this exit impractical to use in the run of show unless another drop is in and the upstage drop is flown. 

Loading and Unloading

·      A 5 foot wide by 16 foot high scenery door to the outside is upstage left next to the piano garage. This door provides primary access to the stage for loading and unloading of scenery and equipment from outside. This doorway is at street level (there is a 2 inch lip into the doorway). 

·      Outside this door is a parking space large enough to accommodate a small truck or van (about 30 feet maximum length). This space will not accommodate a bus or large truck. 

·      There is a theatre owned parking lot beyond this parking space, and parking is available on the street alongside the theater. Arrangements must be made in advance to use these spaces. Either will permit a truck or bus to be parked within 25 feet or so of the backstage loading door. There is no shore power. 

·      Rigging

Height from the stage floor to grid is approximately 50 feet, with 48 feet being the maximum height to which scenery can be flown. Primary rigging is T-bar counterweight-rigging sets manufactured by Tiffin Studios, with 4 cable lines per set.  Each set has a maximum rated capacity of 1000 pounds.  The locking rail and control lines are located stage right at floor level.  The hemp running lines were replaced in 1999 with synthetic running lines.  There are 28 line sets total.  Battens are 44 feet long, schedule 80, and 1½-inch diameter pipe. Only experienced fly operators are allowed to handle this system.

In addition to the counterweight lines, there are 3 hemp sets operated from a fly gallery platform 30 feet above the stage floor, stage left.  Each of these sets is rated at 300 pounds maximum load.  These lines are used for the three borders. The travel on these hemp lines is limited and only experienced fly persons are allowed to operate this system. 

·      Stage Curtains

In 2011 the main curtain, the legs, traveler, (and the traveler track,) upstage full width black curtain, and the borders were installed new. The basic stage curtains, used for framing the stage, are black velour.  There are 4 sets of legs and borders (when you count the open traveler as first leg and the raised main curtain as first border) plus 2 full width drops, the downstage traveler, and the main curtain. The deep rust colored main curtain is guillotine-style with a center overlap opening. The normal trim height is 16 feet. The normal hanging plot is as follows.

       -3’      Foot Lights area - plywood covered

            -1’       Thrust

            0’-0”    Plaster Line

 1         0’-9”    Main Curtain - Guillotine

 2         2’-0”    #1 Electric – 24 Circuits

 3         3’-0”    Open

 4         3’-9”    #1 Leg – Olio Traveler Black

 5         4’-6”    Scope Movie Screen

H1       5’-0”    Black Border – Rope Line Stage Left

6          7’-0”    #2 Electric – 12 Circuits

 7         7’-9”    #2 Black Legs

 8         8’-3”    Open 

 9         8’-9”    Open

10        9’-3”    Full Stage Black

11        10’-0”  Historic Drop – Vaudeville

12        10’-6”  Open

H2       11’-0”  Black Border – Rope Line Stage Left

13        12’-0”  #3 Electric – 12 Circuits

14        13’-0”  #3 Black Legs

15        13’-6”  Historic Drop – Street Scene

16        14’-3”  Open

17        15’-0”  Red Drop

18        15’-6”  Open

19        16’-0”  Open 

H3       16’-6”  Black Border – Rope Line Stage Left

20        17’-6”  #4 Electric – Cyc Lights

21        18’-6”  #4 Black Legs

22        19’-0”  Breeze Point Drop (may be removed)

23        19’-9”  Open

24        20’-9”  Open

25        21’-6”  Open

26        22’ 3”  Library Room drop (may be removed)

27        23’-0”  White Cyc

28        24’-0”  Full Stage Black

            27’-0”  Upstage Wall

The borders are on a hemp and sand fly system.  They can be trimmed but cannot be brought to stage level.  The theater management does not want the cyc nor the historic drops moved due to their age and would appreciate plots designed around them.  The Scope movie screen cannot be moved.