The Crescent Theatre

Main House Details

Technical Specification - Main House

STAGE

  • Proscenium with thrust and fly-tower over stage
  • Orchestra Pit with electric screw-jack lift
  • Pros opening variable – 8.8m up to 12.8m max
  • Pros height variable – up to 5.9m
  • Pros line to back wall 9.6m
  • Pros line to front of orchestra pit 2.8m
  • Height to grid 15.2m
  • 18 counterweight lines available for scenery plus 2 up/down S/L and 2 up/down S/R
  • Flying bars 11.75m long, max load 400kg. Total grid SWL 40 tonnes
  • Stage Management position flexible.

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LIGHTING

  • 3 technical galleries FOH and Control Room rear auditorium
  • Overhead Bars on Counterweight lines, standard numbers 6, 16, 29 and 40
  • Standard Rig plan available upon request 
  • Control Board Strand 520i, 250 channel & attributes
  • 108 2kW and 12 5kW dimmer circuits
  • 12 x Robert Juliat 2kW 15/38 profiles
  • 10 x ETC Source Four Zoom 750W 15/30 profiles
  • 10 x Strand SL 600w 23/50 profiles
  • 28 x Strand 743 1kW Fresnels
  • 22 x Par Can 1kW (Medium Flood)
  • 2 x Strand Cantata 1200W 26/44 profiles with gobo rotator modules
  • 8 x Strand 243 2kW Fresnels
  • 500w Cyc floods and Ground Row
  • 12x Apollo 8” 16 Cell Colour Scrollers
  • 2x Soft and Hard edged Tungsten Followspots available

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SOUND

  • Operated from the rear of auditorium
  • Soundcraft Vi1 Digital Mixing Console, 32 inputs, 27 outputs. Fully programmable including four Fx units, limiters/compressors, etc. See Soundcraft website for details
  • 1 x Tascam 122 Mk3 Cassette Recorder
  • 1 x Tascam Twin CD-X1700 CD Player
  • 2 x Tascam MD 801 Mini Disk Recorders
  • 1 x Inta Audio PC with 8 channel sound card & Sound Cue System v10.7
  • 1 x Sabine FBX2020 feedback eliminator
  • 3 x Martin Audio EM76 centre cluster speakers; 4 x Martin Audio W3P Pros speakers; 2 x Martin Audio EM26 gallery infill speakers; 2 x Martin Audio EM251 sub base speakers; 4 x Martin Audio WM0.5 wedge speakers.
  • 32 x mic lines (all re-patchable) from stage, flies and galleries plus additional audio tie lines.
  • 6 x Shure radio mics

DRESSING ROOMS

  • 2 x Dressing Rooms at Stage level accommodating 
  • max 40; additional rooms available to accommodate 
  • max additional 40.
  • Facilities for people with disabilities available.

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