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Features

The Performing Arts Center (PAC) is a proscenium house with:

  • A soft pine floor
  • Continental seating for approximately 1,000
  • A 24-batten, single-purchase counterweight fly system (17 of which are dedicated lines; electrics, cloth goods, etc.)
  • Stage lighting and sound systems
  • A board operator control suite located at the back of the house
  • Production communications available through the house Telex wired headset system
  • Production monitor systems connecting the green room, dressing rooms, backstage hallway, scene shop, and control rooms for show and stage manager announcements
  • A green room with refrigerator, stove, microwave and sink
  • Two chorus-style dressing rooms with showers, toilets, sinks, lighted mirrors, costume racks, and a loading dock with quick and easy stage access
  • Access between the lobby and backstage available through the house or outside the building

Theatre Details

  • Proscenium: width 40′, height 24′
  • Stage depth (curtain to upstage wall): 36’8″
  • Apron (curtain to downstage edge): 5′
  • Wing space: stage left 10’8″, stage right 15′
  • Floor: soft pine tongue-and-groove with flat black latex finish
  • Type: single-purchase counterweight
  • Fly floor height: 32′
  • Load bridge height: 73′
  • Number of linesets: 24
  • Maximum weight per batten: 1,000 lbs
  • Batten length: 58′
  • Height from floor to grid: 66’6″
Item Details  
Fire curtain 2nd border legs 12’9″ Open line 25’3″
False proscenium Open line 13’3″ Open line 26’3″
Grand drape Traveler 13’9″ Blackout drop 29’9″
Grand border/valance 6″ (DS of curtain line) 3rd electric 14’9″ Open line 30’3″
1st electric 4’3″ (US of curtain line) 3rd border legs 18’3″ Open line 30’9″
1st border legs 6’9′ Open line 19’3″ 5th border legs 31’3″
Open Line 7’3″ 4th electric 20’3″ 5th electric 32’3″
2nd electric 8’3″ 4th border legs 24’9″ White scrim 34’8″
Located opposite of counterweight locking rail on deck; spot lines possible.
  • House curtain: Guillotine (from fly floor) or draw (from deck stage left)
  • Legs: black velour, 5 sets, 11′ x 32′ non-pleated
  • Borders: black velour, 5 sets, 58′ x 10′ non-pleated
  • Traveler: black velour, 58′ x 32′
  • Cyc: 58′ x 32′
  • Scrims: black, 58′ x 32′
  • Tabs: black velour, 2 sets (stage left and stage right wings), 6′ x 32′
  • Height from ground: 28″
  • Overhead clearance: unlimited
  • Loading door size: 12′ x 14′
  • Distance from stage: approximately 15′
  • Control: ETC expression 72/144 lighting console with remote and computerized soft patch
  • Location of control board: back of house
  • Number of dimmers: 240 capacity: 2.4K mfg: LMI
  • Number of channels: 240
  • Type of connectors: 3-pin stage plug
  • Drop boxes SL and SR 2@ 6 per box
  • Wall boxes US L and R 12 per box
  • Mixture of Strand and Altman 750/1000 W 6” Fresnel: 30
  • Altman 6x9s: 16
  • Altman 6x12s: 29
  • Altman 6x16s: 16
  • Strand Lekolite 750/1000 W 6” zoom: 15
  • Strand FOH ellipsoidals: 33
  • Par 64s: 20
  • Par 32s: 5
  • Scoops: 20
  • ETC Source 4 Jr. 36 degree: 2 with drop in iris for each
  • ETC Source 4 36 degree: 1
  • LE Mini Strips 4 circuits per run: 10
FOH Position Approximate Distance Approximate Angle Circuits
3rd Catwalk 60′ 35 24
2nd Catwalk 52′ 40 24
1st Catwalk 34′ Straight down onto apron 9
Box left and right 25′ 20 – 80 3/side
Location Circuits
1st Electric 30
2nd Electric 18
3rd Electric 18
4th Electric 18
5th Electric 24
Proscenium 6/side
Downstage Wall 3/side
  • Bose LT 6403 III 60×40 dispersion full range loudspeakers (2)
  • Bose LT MA24 III Subwoofers (2)
  • Crown CE-4000 Power amplifiers (3) main speakers and subwoofers
  • Behringer Ultra Curve DEQ-2496 Digital Signal Processors (2)
  • Behringer DSP-1124P Signal Processors (5)
  • Rane 1/3 Octave Equalizers (2)
  • 5 Monitor wedges (2 EV SX300, 2 Yamaha SM-10, 1 EAW 222B)

Mixer – LS9

  • 32 channel in 8 and 16 out
  • 6 auxiliaries 4 Post 2 Pre (1 pre/post)
  • Microphones
  • 5 SM58 microphones
  • 3 SM57 microphones
  • 1 SM94 Condenser microphone
  • 1 Beta 52
  • 1 Beta 58
  • 2 Beta 87 handheld microphones
  • 3 Sennheiser SKM 100-835 G3 wireless microphones
  • 2 Sennheiser EW 100 G3 Wireless Lavaliers
  • 1 AKG C1000S Condenser/Capacitor microphone
  • 1 Sennheiser MD 421 II Dynamic Cardioid microphone
  • 3 Shure MX202B/C Microflex Cardioid Condenser overhead microphones
  • 1 Shure Cardioid Condenser Gooseneck with podium
  • 5 Crown PCC-160 Area microphones

Inputs – All XLR

  • 7 on stage right
  • 9 on stage left
  • 5 upstage
  • 24 channel snake SR to sound board

Playback

  • Denon Professional CD player

Contact

  • Schierer, Mariah

  • Performing Arts Center Manager

  • COA – Elizabeth City: D 151

  • 252-335-0821 ext. 2267