Main stage



Rental of the Main stage includes all dressing rooms, the Green room, wardrobe room and the loading bay. The rental also includes one house technician for eight hours, our Front of House Manager and the front of house volunteer team for five hours.
The main auditorium has two control positions available - either in the control booth or in the house directly in front of the booth. Click the button below to access lighting plots, channel hook up and other lighting system information.
Use password: kctlighting
Technical specifications
The loading bay is at grade-level – there is no loading dock. Trucks must be unloaded by use of a ramp or tail-gate lift. The overhead door is 9’9” H and 9’9” W and is electrically operated. The loading bay leads directly onto stage right.
Audio system:
100A, 3-phase isolated-ground transformer with 50A stove plug, 30A twist lock and multiple 15A u-ground plugs available on stage. No cam-lock tie in here.
Touring show distro tie-in:
100A 3-phase with cam-locks USL. Can be energized by house technician
200A 3-phase with cam-locks USL. Local permit and electrician is required as regulated by BC Safety Authority. Contact KCT technical coordinator at least two weeks in advance if 200A service is required. Fees are charged to renter.
Stage Type: Proscenium / Thrust
Proscenium Height: 17' 7"
Proscenium Width: 46' 6"
Stage Depths:
- Front of apron, DSC to main drape, 16' 10"
- Front of apron to plasterline, 16' 4"
- Front of apron, DSC to cyclorama, 47' 10"
- Front of apron, DSC to MS traveler, 32' 9"
- Plasterline, to cyclorama, 32' 6"
- Plasterline to US wall, 33' 6"
- Height of apron to house floor, 3' 7" H
- Height of stage deck to orchestra pit floor, 5' 1" H
- Centerline to SL clear, 37' 9 "
- Centerline to SR clear, 38' 6"
Stage Floor: 4' x 8' Duratex hardboard 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.
The stage is normally configured with a sectional apron which houses the PA system sub-woofer boxes.
However, the apron can be lowered to house floor level to allow for dancing or additional seating. Alternatively, the apron can be completely removed to create a sub-floor level orchestra pit. The floor of the pit is 5' 1" below stage level and can have an optional front wall. The usable space is 46’ by 9’6” at the center tapering to about 3’ at either side.
In either case the sub-woofers must be relocated to the stage or removed entirely.
Alterations to the Apron require a minimum 2 weeks’ notice and cost additional labor charges - typically $400 - $500.
Roland XS-84H Video matrix video switcher, 8 HDMI / VGA inputs. Outputs to house projectors, stage projector and lobby screens. Mounted in control booth.
Roland V40HD video mixer accepts HDMI, VGA, & composite inputs. Located in control booth.
Panasonic PT-DW830ULK 8300 Lumen projector with ET-DLE 080 short -throw lens. Set up for rear projection onto PVC screen mid-stage or down-stage. Can be flown to project onto cyclorama - with advance notice only.
Christie DWU850-GS 7500 ANSI lumens with laser illumination.
2 x Christie Digital DWU599-GS DLP WUXGA HD projectors with motorized 7’ x 11’ screens at fixed locations house left and right. 16:9 aspect ratio is ideal
19’ x 40' midstage PVC projection screen can be normally located at mid-stage (LS16)or down-stage (LS5) positions.
Pianos:
9’ Steinway Concert Grand
9' Yamaha Concert Grand
5’ Willis Baby Grand (in lobby only)
Piano tuning is recommended and available upon request. Only the designated KCT piano tuner is permitted to tune KCT pianos and two-week notice is required. Tuning charges are billed to the client.
Risers:
Eight 4' x 8' Wenger-style decks are dedicated to main stage. Four more 4' x 8’ decks belong to the Black Box but may be available on mainstage if requested in advance.
8", 16", 24", and 32" legs and 16" and 24" skirts are available
Four Wenger 3-step choral risers with guardrails
Ladders & Lifts:
Various step ladders up to 10’
Genie AWP 40’ single person lift
- Genie GR-15, single person lift, 15’ platform height,self-powered
Lifts are operated by the house technician or lift-certified personnel only.
Kelowna Community Theatre has a full complement of main, mid-stage and upstage travelers, 6 sets of legs, and lighting as specified on the house hang plot. If battens need to be stripped or modified in advance, please give a minimum of 2 weeks’ notice. All house drapery and lighting will be restored to the standard house hang at the end of booking. Any extra technician time to restore will be charged to the show.
Only theatre technicians are permitted to load or unload counter-weight arbors. All equipment added to a batten must be inspected for safety by the house technician before it is flown. Client crew members are allowed to operate flys following an orientation by a house technician.
Line sets – 28 single-purchase line sets -36’ full out trim (no grid)
Fly operation is at stage left. Loading rail is accessed via 30’ steel ladder.
Loads may be added to a maximum of 600lbs per lineset. Maximum single point load on a batten is 250lbs
The 5 LX battens carry up to 1000lbs maximum. Maximum single point load on a batten is 250lbs
FOH 1 is a 48’ Superbeam motor- operated truss. It is used to hang lighting instruments and is operated by house technicians only.
FOH 2 – 5 may be accessed for focus etc. via a rolling “cage”. Only house technicians may operate the cage.
Additional equipment on Flys:
50’ x 18’ black sharks tooth Scrim, normally located upstage
20’ x 40' rear projection PVC screen – normally located midstage (LS16) or downstage (LS5)
Hardwood acoustic reflector panels are permanently located on linesets 6 and 20
Line Set Positions / Schedule:
DSL | Notes | ||
0 | PROSC/FIRE curtain | 0' | Keep clear on stage setup |
1 | Main traveler/guillotine | 1' | |
2 | LEGS | 2' | |
3 | LX1 | 3' | |
4 | Mirror ball | 4' | Optional |
5 | Spare/DS screen | 5' | |
6 | DS reflectors | 6' | |
7 | LEG 2 | 7' | |
8 | Border | 8' | |
9 | LX2 | 9' | |
10 | MS monitors | 12' | |
11 | LEG 3 | 13' | |
12 | Border | 14' | |
13 | LX3 | 15' | |
14 | Spare | 16' | |
15 | MS Traveler/guillotine | 17' | |
16 | MS screen | 18' | West-coasted |
17 | Border | 19' | |
18 | Leg 4 | 20' | |
19 | LX4 | 21' | |
20 | US Reflectors | 24' | |
21 | LEG 5 & Border | 25' | |
22 | Sharkstooth scrim | 26' | West-coasted |
23 | LX5 | 27' | |
24 | Spare | 28' | |
25 | Spare | 29' | |
26 | Spare | 30' | |
27 | US Traveler/guillotine | 31' | |
28 | CYC | 32 |
FOH & monitor consoles: Digidesign Venue SC48
SC48 has EQ, gates, comps, reverbs, delays on 48 channels
32-channels of Pro-Tools recording available with 2 weeks’ advance notice – recording technician is an extra charge.
FOH console is located at back of room, ramp access from loading bay, unobstructed view, no seat kills
FOH Outboard: Tascam CD 1U Professional CD player
Main snake:
Radial 48 x 10 balanced XLR, located at stage-left, 48x 10 split is available
Sub-snakes:
Radial 48 x 10 balanced XLR - 60’
Radial 8 ch. stage box balanced XLR - 75’
Yorkville 16 x 4 balanced XLR – 60’
House PA
Turbo Sound Flexarray:
8 x TFA-600H 3-way tops, 4 per side (flown)
4 x TSW-218 Double 18” sub-woofers - under deck
6 x TS NuQ-6 lip-fills
- Powered by Turbosound Rack DP50 4x 1250W amplifiers
Stage wedges:
10 x Turbo Sound TFM-560, bi-amped
2 x Meyer UM-100p (downstage side wash)
- 2 x Meyer UPA-1p (flown midstage side wash)
Power amplifiers:
6 x Turbosound DP-50 Quad amplifiers in rolling racks
2 x Crown K1
2 x QSC PLX 3602 power amplifiers
- 1 x QSC ex4000
Other wedges available:
2 x EAW SM200
3 x EAW SM 122e
1 x EAW 159zi drum wedge
- 1 x Meyer USW - 1P Subwoofer
Other PA equipment:
2 x Meyer UPA-1p
2 x Allstar 650 double 18” subwoofers
1 x Meyer USW-1P subwoofer
Microphones:
8 Sennhieser ew-100G3 wireless handheld with 935 capsules
6 Sennhieser ew-100 G3 wireless belt packs
6 Countryman B3 lavaliere mics – various colours
4 Sennhieser 935
10 Shure sm58
2 Shure Beta 58
4 Shure Beta 57
1 Shure Beta 52
1 AKG D112
2 AKG C 451
2 Shure sm81
2 Shure Beta 87A
3 Shure sm57
3 Shure Beta 91A
2 Sennhieser e906
3 Sennhieser e112 boundary
4 Sennhieser 604 drum clip-on
1 Shure sm87 condenser
4x Shure Beta 98 condenser w mounts
6x Shure mx202 hanging choir mics
DI Boxes:
4 Radial JDI
1 JDI stereo
2 Active Countryman Type 10
- 2 Passive Rapco
Mic Stands:
20 tall K&M Boom stands
12 short K&M Boom stands
6 straight stand - round bases
- 6 desktop stands
Control Room:
- Mackie 12 x 4 console
Other Console:
Behringer AX-12 digital mixer, six XLR & six ¼” inputs, 4 aux returns, IPad controlled.
The main auditorium has two control positions available - either in the control booth or in the house directly in front of the booth. The two consoles can be used in either location. The lighting plot, magic sheet, and channel hook-up pdf, dwg and dxf files available upon request.
Dimmers: 300 x 2.4 Kw ETC Sensor+ (284 available for stage use)
All lighting connectors are NEMA L6-20 3-pin twist lock ground 120vac, 20A.
15A u-ground adapters are available.
House consoles:
ETC GIO (EOS software) with 1 fader wing and one external touchscreen monitor
Grand MA2 on PC with Command Wing, 1 Playback Wing, and 4 touchscreen monitors
Each console uses 4 DMX universes to control the house hang, plus 2 additional universes hardwired to stage for touring and ground packages.
The GIO has 6 native universes but can be re-configured to 10 universes.
The MA2 has 6 native universes but can be re-configured to a total of 14 universes.
Please allow 2 weeks’ advance notice if you require more than 6 lighting universes.
House Hang design:
1 LED front wash, 5 areas across stage x 4 deep, ETC Colorsource Spots w/25-50° zoom barrels.
1 LED top/back wash, 3 areas across x 5 deep, 15 x ETC Colorsource Deep Blue spots with Fresnel adapters & barn doors
2 conventional top/back washes, ETC Source 4 pars w/extra wide lenses, Each wash is 3 areas wide x 4 areas deep
1 LED high side wash (tips), 12 x ETC Colorsource Deep Blue spots with 25-50° zoom lenses
1 conventional side wash (breakup tips), 10 x Source 4 Ellipsoidal Reflectors w/50° Lenses. Gobo: Medium Leaf Breakup
LED cyclorama (top row only), 8x Colorsource Deep Blue Spots w/Cyc adapters
Moving lights throughout the rig:
6 Chauvet R2 zoom-able moving head wash on LX2
6 Chauvet R2 zoom-able moving head wash on LX3
4 Microh Ultra Trinity 280 moving head spots on LX1
4 Microh Ultra Trinity 280 moving head spots on LX3
7 Microh Rio Zoom 19 Quad pars on LX3 (used as strobes & blinders)
6 Microh Rio Zoom 19 Quad pars on FOH1 (used as strobes & blinders)
4 VL1000TS moving head spots on FOH3
Pre-Hung conventional specials:
FOH 4:
7 x Source Four Ellipsoidal Reflectors w/19° lenses (two are paired for conductor specials)
2 x Selecon Pacific 23-50° Zooms (aimed at theatre walls for gobos)
FOH 3:
3 x Selecon Pacific 23-50° Zooms
FOH 1:
5 x Selecon Pacific 30° Ellipsoidal Reflectors
LX 1, LX2 & LX 4:
5 ea x Strand SL Ellipsoidal Reflectors w/36° lenses
Follow Spots:
2 x Lycian 1209 Midget HP
Instruments in storage:
8 x ETC Colorsource Deep Blue LEDsw/25-50° zoom lenses
4 x Source Four Pars (750 watt)
8 x Strand SL Ellipsoidal Reflectors w/36° lenses
8 x Source Four Ellipsoidal Reflectors
1 x Selecon Pacific 30° Ellipsoidal Reflectors
2 x Selecon Pacific Ellipsoidal Reflector Wide Zooms (up to 90°)
11 x Microh Rio Zoom 19 Quad Pars
6 x F.E. Lighting cyc cells (top row)
24 x M.C. Lighting Man. L1300 Par 64s (narrow, Medium and Wide lamps available)
American DJ Freq Matrix strobes (in storage)
7 x Microh LED Halo Zoom 19 MKII Moving head wash
1 x Microh Ultra Trinity 280 Moving head spot
Additional Lenses:
Source Four
2 @ 10°
2 @ 19°
2 @ 26°
1 @ 36°
2 @ 70°
2 @ 90°
8 @ 25-50° zoom
Strand SL
1 @ 26°
1 @ 36°
Haze: Water-based fluids used in-house
1 x Ultratec Radiance Hazer
1 x Antari HZ-300 Hazer
1 x Antari HZ-350 Hazer
1 x Chauvet Hurricane 1800 Flex Fogger
Accessories:
Extensive Roscolux gel inventory, 6”, 7”, 10” pre-cuts
Gobo library
Gobo frames
Gobo donuts
Gel frames
4 x Iris kits
8 x Floor bases
8 x 8’ dance booms
5 x Show Baby wireless DMX