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Technical Information

• General
• Theatre Main Stage
• Fly System
• Lighting
• Sound
• Black Box Theatre/Rehearsal Hall

General

Loading Bay

The level-entry loading bay leads directly onto stage right, separated by an interior bay door. There is no loading platform.

Overhead door size:  9'9" high by 9’9" wide 

Stage Power

Kelowna Community Theatre clients have eight dedicated parking spots available by the loading bay and stage door. Parking passes can be issued upon arrival if required. There is also space for one or two semi-trailers or buses in front of the loading bay doors; however this may reduce available vehicle parking. 50 Amp shore power is available for tour buses – 75’ power cable is required 
 
Additional parking is available the Library Parkade located adjacent to the Theatre.

Dressing Rooms

Stage Level:

• Dressing Room A: 15+ person capacity with washroom and 2 showers

Upper Level:

• Dressing Room B: 15+ person capacity with washroom and 2 showers
• Dressing Room C: 2 people, 1 shower/ washroom
• Dressing Room D: 2 people, 1 shower/ washroom

Wardrobe Room

The wardrobe room contains a clothes washer and dryer, ironing board and iron. It can also be used as an extra dressing room if required.

Green Room

The Green room is a large room, comfortably renovated with several couches and chairs located adjacent to the upper level dressing rooms. The room includes a bar, sink, fridge, microwave, TV, stereo so it is ideal as a “meet and greet” lounge.  

Stage Type:  Proscenium / Thrust  

Specifications:

Stage Floor:   4' x 8' Duratex sheets painted black. Limited screwing or nailing is allowed with permission from the theatre technician. Painting of the stage floor may be allowed with permission of the theatre technician

Orchestra Pit/ Dance Area

The Apron can be removed to create an orchestra pit – depth of pit below stage is 4' 10". The apron can be dropped to floor level to create a dance floor area or space for additional seating.  
Alterations to the Apron require at least 7 days notice and cost an additional labor fee. 

Stage Equipment

Video and Projection:

Additional cost for use of video camera system 

Pianos:

• 9' Yamaha Concert Grand
• 5’ Willis Baby Grand
• Upright Mason & Risch Grand
• Piano tuning is recommended and available upon request; however please give at least one week notice. Tuning charge’s are billed to the client .

Only the piano tuner designated by KCT is permitted to tune the pianos. 

Risers:

• Eight 4' x 8' Wenger-style decks
• 8", 16", 24", and 32" legs available
• 16" and 24” skirting available

Choral risers:

• 4  Wenger three-step choir riser with backs

Podiums:

• 2 matched rosewood podiums

Music Stands:

• 25 Manhasset music stands
• Genie 40’ Man-lift

Ladders:

• 10’ A-frame on a four-wheeled cart – ladder extends to 18’
• Various size step ladders, one extension ladder

Kelowna Community Theatre is equipped with a full complement of drapery and lights as specified on the house hang plot. If flys need to be stripped or modified please give a minimum of 7 days notice. All house drapery and lighting must be restored to the house standard at the end of booking.

Client crew may be allowed to operate flys following a brief orientation by a KCT Technician. Only KCT technicians are permitted to load or unload the counter-weight arbours. All equipment added to a fly line will be inspected for safety by the KCT technician before it is flown. 

• Line sets – 28 single purchase line sets (no grid)
• Fly operation is stage left at stage level
• Most of the battens have a total arbor load of 700 lbs
• 5 Lx battens with a total arbor load of 1200 lbs
• Legs and borders may be combined with a working height of 15’ releasing 4 pipes for other uses
• FOH 1 is a 48’ Superbeam Truss suspended by motors 28’ apart leaving about 10’ cantilever
• The truss has a capacity of 1000 kgs or less depending upon load conditions. It is generally used to hang only lighting instruments.

Line Set Positions / Schedule

Additional Soft Goods on Flys 

• Scrim – 1 x 50’ x 18’ Black Sharks tooth, can be placed on any empty pipe
• Legs / Border – various sizes of legs and borders suitable for extra masking (old stock may have holes, rips, etc)
• 1 x 20’ x 40‘ rear projection drop screen

• Colortran 300 x 2.4 KW (284 for show use)
• 24 channel 1.2 KW dimmer rack is in place in Rehearsal Hall / Black Box space

House Hang

• House hang consists of 3 color front wash, 3 top washes, side wash with scrollers, 3 color cyclorama, and 3 groups of 6 pars for back lights
• pdf  diagram of the House Hang, and console patch/magic sheet are available

House Hang instruments

• 42 Selecon Fixed beam Spotlight 30 degrees – 750 watts
• 21 Par 64 Parcans – 1000 watts – wash from front – wides
• 10 Par 64 Parcans – 1000 watts – mounted with scrollers
• 10 Par 64 Parcans each per side of stage for side lighting – wides, mediums
• 36 Source 4 Parnells, 575 watts - wide-lens, top lights  -  3 groups of 3 lamps on 4 lx’s
• 18 Par 64 Parcans – 1000 watts – narrow – LX 4 back lights – 3 groups of 6
• Cyc Lights – 3 colors, 10,000 watts per color
• 1 Selecon Pacific 23 – 50 Zoomspot – SR podium special

Other Lamps Available

• 20 Strand Leko 2240 6" x 9" Ellipsoidals 1000 watts
• 25 Selecon 6 “ Fresnels – 1000 watts – barn doors available
• 14 Strand Leko 2230 6" x 12" Ellipsoidals 1000 watts
• 9 Selecon Pacific 23-50 Zoomspots – 575 watts
• 2 Selecon Pacific 90 Degree Ellipsoidal Spotlights – 575 watts
• 10 Strand SL Coolbeam Ellipsoidals – 26 degrees
• 15 Strand SL Coolbeam Ellipsoidals – 36 degrees
• 4 Strand Century 6" x 16" Ellipsoidals – 1000 watts
• 5 Berkey Colortran – Mini-Ellipses – 500 watts
• Stepped focus 30,40, 50 degrees
• 5 Altman 1 KAF Fresnels – 1000 watts
• 14 Par 64 Parcans – 1000 watts – selection of bulbs
• 2 Lycian 1209 Midget HP follow spots
• 20 Color Rocket color changers – used in house hang
• 42 Altman 360 Q 6” x 12” Ellipsoidals - 750 watts – used in Studio
• 12 Selecon Aurora Groundrow Single Units
• 8 Source 4  Ellipsoidals – 2 x 19 degrees, 3 x 26 degrees, 3 x 36 degrees – 750 watts
• 4 additional Source 4  Parnells

Main Lighting  Console

• ETC Insight 3
• 384 stage channels
• 512 dedicated moving light channels
• Operates in both two-scene manual and multi-scene memory modes
• Trackball and seven encoder wheels for simplified moving light control

Pre-programmed or User Defined Moving Light Attributes

• 48 (or 96) individual channel faders
• Controls up to 256 automated devices
• Proportional soft patching with custom dimmer profiles
• Advanced cue and submaster parameters
• MIDI compatible (MIDI show control and standard MIDI commands)
• 3 DMX universes (1536 dimmers)
• ColorNet® compatible

Back up Consoles

• Colortran Encore 24/48
• 24 submasters, 512 channels
• 550 cues/groups, 100 effects, 24 subs
• Colortran Status 12/24
• 12 submasters, 24 channels
• 118 cues in memory, effects and bumps

Moving fixtures / Scrollers

• 5 Vari-Lite VL-1000's total, 3 of which are to be permanently mounted on the FOH 5 truss and may not be removed – 2 others will be mounted on floor stands
• 5 HighEnd Trackspots
• 20 Color Rocket color changers – used in the house hang side wash
• Moving fixtures and scrollers have very specific requirements on usage
• 8 Microh Arena intelligent lights, 4 flown, 4 available for on-deck. Run on 2^nd DMX universe.

Miscellaneous

• Control booth located at rear of house has  lighting console and small audio mixer
• Lighting board can be placed in the auditorium by the sound console (please give advance notice)
• Color media: good selection of Roscolux color filters
• Lighting grid connectors are 3-pin Twist Lock Ground 120 V, 20 A
  

House PA

Yamaha LS9-32 digital audio console, located at back of room, level access, unobstructed view of stage

• 32 mic inputs, 13 Auxiliary matrix outputs, LRC outputs
• Built-in EQ, comps, gates, reverb available on all inputs and outputs
• 24 channel XLR Snake from stage left and 6 balanced returns to stage (additional returns optional)
• Built-in 8 x 4 channel sub-snakes to stage right and stage centre
• 16 channel stage snake

Control Room equipment

• Behringer  Xenyx  1852  mixer, 10 inputs, 2 aux returns,  LR  outputs, built in FX
• Denon CD player

Loudspeakers:

• 7 Meyer UPA - 1P mid-high cabinets,  2 flown per side, 2 may be added as front fill, 1 centre channel speaker - 2450 W RMS combined
• 2 Meyer USW - 1P Subwoofers , flown, 750 W RMS combined
• 2 Allstar 650 Sub-woofers optional ,with QSC ex4000 power amplifier
• Centre speaker can be controlled separately

PA Processing:

• BSS 9088ii Soundweb DSP
• Ashly Protea Graphic EQ - for main mix

• 2 Meyer Sound UM-100P fill monitors (permanently located in SR & SL baffles)
• 3 EAW SM-122e floor wedges
• 2 EAW sm 200 floor wedges
• 1  EAW 159zi Drum wedge
• 2 Crown K1 power amplifiers
• 2 QSC PLX 3602 power amplifiers

Monitor Processing:

• 6 Channels of Ashly Protea System II Digital EQ with remote controller at FOH position

Outboard Processing Rack:

• 2  Yamaha REV500 digital reverb
• 1  Yamaha SPX 900 Multi Effect Processor
• 1 Tascam CD 1U Professional CD player
• 1  Tascam CD RW900SL CD stereo Recorder  
• 1  Ashly MD 3102 stereo graphic equalizer

Microphones :

• 3 Sennheiser EW 100 G2 wireless handheld
• 2 Sennhieser EW 100 G2 wireless lavaliere
• 10 Shure sm58
• 2 Shure Beta 58
• 1 Shure Beta 57
• 1 Shure Beta 52
• 2 AKG C 451 B overhead condenser
• 2 Shure sm81 OH condenser
• 1 Shure sm87 condenser
• 3 Shure sm57
• 2 Crown PZM
• 4 Sennhieser 604  drum clip-on
• 1 Crown SASS-P stereo PZM mic

D.I. Boxes:

• 4 Passive Radial JDI
• 3 Passive Rapco DI
• 3 Active Behringer Ultra DI

Mic Stands:

• 12 Tall K&M Boom stands
• 4 Straight stand - round bases
• 6 Short K&M Boom stands
• 6 desktop stands  

Intercom :

• Main Station: Clear-Com MS400A linked to 2 Radio-Com Wireless stations controlling up to 8 wireless headsets
• Full paging to all areas of the building
• 8 Motorola Radio handsets, 4 shoulder mics, 4 Headset mics

Hearing Impaired System:

• Sennheiser Infra-Red hearing impaired system
• 6 headsets are available to audience members on request

Other Sound Equipment:

• 1 Mackie DFX 12 mixer, 6 mic xlr inputs, 2 aux sends
• 2 Mackie sr350 loudspeakers and stands
• 1  16 x 4 40’ stage snakes
• 1  40’ 6-channel sub snake
• Vintage Electrohome record player in the Green Room

Black Box Theatre/ Rehearsal Hall

A 1200 ft2 multi – purpose room is available for small shows, rehearsals, meetings or other functions.   It is equipped with two washrooms, as well as a bar area with a sink and refrigerator. There is a very small backstage/dressing room area.

This room can be booked separately as a "Black Box" studio space.

Black Box Theatre/Rehearsal Hall Equipment: