MCA Stage Technical Specifications

Stage dimensions

• Width of opening: 52’ (15.8 m)
• Total depth: 34’ (10.3 m)

Wing space (each side): 13’ (3.9 m)

Stage height is 36” above the floor level of the first row of seating. The house is raked at 12 degrees.

The clear height from the stage floor to catwalks is:

Height to grid: 26.5’ (8 m)

Height to underneath of catwalk: 22’ (6.7 m)

There is no fly space or flying pipes, but scenery or pipes can be rigged to fly on a per show basis with consultation of our theater manager. The back and side walls are concrete cinder block, painted black. There are double-wide stage doors on the back wall offstage left and right.

The stage floor is a black sprung wood, which can be covered with black, gray, or white marley.

Load-in dimensions

Freight Elevator

10’ wide x 17’ long x 16’ high (3 m wide x 5 m long x 4.8 m high)

Smallest opening

6’6” wide x 10’ tall with doors on sill (1.9 m wide x 3 m tall with doors on sill)

Curtains

There are three full-stage curtains and two sets of legs; the curtains are front/downstage, intermediate, and back/upstage. All curtains are a heavy black velour material, and are on travelers.

The curtains and legs, when fully open, compress to about 5’ wide on each side.

There is a cyclorama hung against the back wall. You may also use either a black or white scrim. There are two additional #1400 I-beam type tracks for the scrims or light scenery.

See the ground plan for the typical configuration of soft goods.

Spare Borders

Spare Legs

PDF Downloads

• Theater Section Deck Ext.
• Theater Section
• Theater Grid Plan
• Theater Stage
• Theater Stage Deck Ext.
• Theater Stage

Inventory

• MCA Theater Inventory