STALLER CENTER TECHNICAL INFORMATION
The following addresses are for TECHNICAL CONTACT ONLY. Any other inquiries
will not be answered.
New Directions to theatre loading dock:
- Long Island
Expressway (interstate 495) East (from New York City - Midtown Tunnel) to EXIT
62 : Nicholls Road
(county road 97) Take Nicolls
Road (CR 97) NORTH toward Stony Brook.
- After 6.3 miles on
Nicolls Road north you will have passed Suffolk County Community College,
Route 25 (Jericho Tpke.), and you will come to Route 347 (Nesconset
Highway). Route 347 is the first really major intersection, with at least
5 lanes in all four directions.
- After Route 347
proceed 2.2 miles passing two traffic lights. The second light is the
1ST (south) entrance to the Stony Brook campus and the University Hospital.
Pass this entrance.
- At the third traffic
light is the second (and the main) campus entrance. On both sides of
the road there is a white sign stating "Stony Brook - main
entrance". Make this left. At the traffic light turn right and
then make the next left onto John
Toll Dr. (maybe 50 yards from the traffic
light).
- The road curves
slightly to the left. After the grey wall on the left you will see three
ramps/loading areas next to one another. pass all of these. On
the left you will see a tall windowless brown brick extension of a
building (looks rather like a fly loft). Pull into the next loading
dock on left (immediately after the large windowless brown brick
building segment close to the road). This is the Staller Center
theatre loading dock.
If you come to the stop sign you have gone 50 yards too far.
- If you get lost, but are
on the campus, ask directions for the Student Union building, the front of
which is across the street from our loading area on John Toll Dr. If you ask for
directions to the Staller
Center that will
probably get you to the front of the building; likely not where you
want to be...
- Staller Center
offices are on the second floor, above the lobbies.
- If you feel you must
use a GPS enter coordinates North
4054.985’ West 07307.286’ or try the cross streets of Stadium Road and John S. Toll Drive. We DO NOT HAVE A TYPICAL ADDRESS AND YOU
WILL END UP AT THE STONY BROOK TRAIN STATION.
- Stony Brook is
about a 2 hour drive from New
York City in average conditions. absolute
best case 1 hour, in rush hour maybe 4 hours or more.
- Maps:
MAIN THEATRE TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
This is the more verbose version with all the gruesome details. A simplified
version is also
available
And there is a page with no information about the space, just equipment inventory
- Drawings:
- Theater Pictures
- Seating capacity:
1050
- Dimensions:
- Proscenium:
- Width: 46' - 4"
- Height: 29' -
10"
- Depth:
- Plaster line to last
pipe batten: 25' - 7"
- Plaster line to rear
wall: 34' - 0"
- Plaster line to
downstage edge of apron: 12' - 2"
- Last pipe batten to
rear wall: 8' - 0"
- Please read below about
orchestra shell stored dimensions and reference the ground plan and
section to better understand the conditions if you require more than 25'
depth.
- Width:
- Wall to wall: 89' -
8"
- Center line to SR
wall (usable space): 42' approximately
- Center line to SL
wall (usable space): 39' - 6" approximately
- Wing space: Assuming
a playing area opening (drape to drape) of about 40' (our typical) then
the remaining wing space completely offstage of the legs is:
- Stageleft: 11' to
the fly rail.
- Stageright: 14' give
or take a foot for items on the wall.
- Height:
- Stage floor to grid:
62' - 5"
- Stage floor to
"clouds" above apron: 26' - 2"
- Stage floor to most
pipe battens "gridded": 57' - 0"
- Stage floor to bottom
of pin rail/patch panel loft stageright: 17' - 10" (14' 5" in
some areas)
- Proscenium height:
29' - 10"
- Front of House:
- 200' Cable run to
lighting control booth
- 250' Cable run to FOH
mix position
- 140' Line of sight
from projection/camera position
- Loading dock:
- Location: stageright
- Height: 51"
- Loading area 'garage
door' 10' 7" W x 11' 7" H
- Loading dock edge to
garage door 11' 3"
- Maximum opening of
doorway between stageright and loading area 7' 4" W x 12' 1" H
- Largest objects that
could travel from outside the building to the stage via the loading
dock:
- Largest box size:
approximately 7' 4" W x 10' 6" L x 11' 6" H
- Longest object less
than 8" W approximately 30' L may be accommodated
- Please note:
trucks longer than 30' protrude from the dock into the street, blocking
traffic. Drivers should be prepared to disconnect their cab if
necessary during load in and out to permit campus traffic to pass.
Preferably trailers can be moved to a non-protruding position within a
reasonable period of time from the completion of loading or unloading.
- Given appropriate
advance notice there can be sufficient space adjacent to the loading
area to park 4 large vehicles (3 48' trailers and a bus or whatever.)
Additional vehicles may need to park on a sidewalk across the street
from the loading area or other areas increasingly distant from the
loading area.
- Hydraulic stage lift
/ elevator / pit:
- Location: downstage of
proscenium
- dimensions: 45' -
6" x 10' - 0" approximate; trapezoid; see groundplan.
- Designated stops:
- Stage - level with
stage
- Seating - 3' 1"
below stage
- Orchestra - 8'
2" below stage; usually played at 7' 6" below stage with one
8" step at each entrance
- Pit / trap room - 17'
4" below stage
- The lift is able to
stop at any level between these however access is inconvenient and must
be requested, discussed, and planned for in advance.
- Control: remote unit
on lift itself or console on stageright.
- Maximum load
approximately 5000 pounds.
- Power:
- 3 separate company
switches are available.
- Each panel (or company
switch) provides a 3 phase, 400 Amp, 120/208 Volt, 5 wire service.
- Located on stageright.
- Bare wire leads
required, our electrician will tie in.
- 1 220V "dryer
plug" receptacle for vehicle shore power use. Note: this service is
connected to one of the company switches.
- About 6 separate 20A
"edison" or
"U-ground" wall receptacle circuits are available onstage. If
you need a lot of wall power and do not have your own PD then please
discuss this in advance.
- Lighting:
- Control:
- (1) Emphasis running
ETC Insight 3 control console.
- (1) wired ETC
RFU
- ETCNet2
installed
- Nodes and Ports Locations
- Backstage Right DMX Node
- Backstage Right Port
- Backstage Left Port
- FOH Catwalk 2 Ports House Left
- House Right
Port (mid house tech table position)
- Projection Booth Port
- Light Booth
Port and Node
§
(4) DMX Nodes
§
(2) Video Nodes
- 2 Permanent house
electrics (linesets B and C) have 35 circuits each
- 124 Additional
circuits available for overhead use on stage; 64 on stageleft and 60 on
stageright.
- 20 Circuits in 5
floor pockets upstage of playing area.
- For a complete
breakdown of all circuit locations by number click here
- Instrument inventory
(including normally hung units) :
- ETC Source 4:
- (60) 36 Degree (6X9)
- (40) 26 Degree
(6x12)
- (40) 19 Degree ; all
are normally hung on first bridge and in first slot.
- (30) 10 Degree ; all
are normally hung on second bridge and in second slot.
- (30) Altman 8"
fresnels - 1 KW
- (65) PAR 64 cans - 1
KW WFL MFL NSP or VNSP lamps available
- (8) 4 Circuit farcycs
- 500 W, all are normally hung on permanent electric #2 (line set C)
- (2) Lycian Super Arc
400 followspots - 400 W
- Additional lighting
equipment
- (8) Booms (maximum
sidearm height of 14')
- (51) Sidearms
- Color frames for all
units.
- (34) Template holders
for source 4 units.
- (28) Other somewhat
suboptimal template holders for source 4 units (loose fit, require clip
to shutter.)
- (10) Glass template holders
for source 4 units.
- (10) Universal Iris
slot Template holders
- (9) Irises for source
4 units.
- (32)
"Square" 8" barn doors for PAR or Fresnel units.
- (14)
"Trapezoid" 8" barn doors for PAR or Fresnel units.
- Pin connector
extension cable, two-fers, etc. (see inventory)
- Normally hung fixtures:
- First bridge: (24) 19
degree Source 4
- Second bridge: (24)
10 degree Source 4
- First slots (box
booms): (13) 19 degree Source 4,
(2) 26 degree Source 4 house left and house right
- Second slots (box
booms): (4) 10 degree Source 4, house left and house right
- First and second
electrics (linesets B and C): (2) 16" scoops each for worklights
- Second electric: (8)
4 circuit farcycs (upstage side of truss)
·
Audio:
- Mixing consoles:
- Allen&Heath
GL-4000 : 24 Channel (4 stereo) in, 8 main out, 10 aux sends, 11x4
matrix, et cetera.
- Playback:
- (1) Denon C680 CD
player
- (2) Nakamichi DR-3
cassette decks
- Processing:
- (1) Rane GE-60 2
channel 1/3 octave equalizer
- (1) Lexicon MPX1
effects processor
- (1) Sabine FBX-900
"feedback exterminator"
- (1) Lexicon PCM 42
digital delay processor
- Loudspeakers:
- (1) "Main
Cluster" (Altec) permanent full range mono speaker system for house,
located above stage apron.
- (4) Klipsch KSM-1
(wedge stage monitors, portable)
- (2) Turbosound TXD-580
(full range, additional house coverage, portable)
- Note: house coverage
speaker systems have 1/3 octave rane eq inline to align response to the
hall.
- Amplifiers:
- (2) McIntosh MC7300
Amplifiers (4 channels @ 300 W)
- "Main
Cluster" (1 channel)
- Stage monitor 'A'
position, stage right and left (1 channel)
- Turbosound positions,
apron stage right and left (2 channels)
- (1) McIntosh MC7270
Amplifier (2 channels @ 270 W)
- Stage monitor 'B'
position, stage right and left (1 channel)
- backup for main cluster
(1 channel)
- (1) Crown D150A
amplifier for control booth monitor speakers.
- (1) Spare Crown D150A
amplifier
- (1) Spare Crown D75
amplifier
- 13 Microphone
receptacles (3 pin XLR)
- 12 Channel whirlwind
snake from stage right swing panel room
- Wired clear-com intercom
system:
- MS-200 main station
- (6) Various beltpacks
- (10) Various single
muff headsets
- (2) Double muff headsets
(normally reserved for spotlight operators)
- A communications
connection can be made available virtually anywhere in the theatre
- Wireless communication:
- (1) Telex Radiocom
BTR-300 base station, full duplex, supports up to 4 beltpacks
- (2) Telex TR-300
wireless beltpacks
- This system can be and
normally is connected to the wired in house system
- See below for RF
information.
- Assorted microphones,
microphone stands, cables, etc. for limited sound reinforcement
situations. (see inventory)
·
Radio frequency information:
- Always in use before and
during performances:
- 181.9 , 182.6 ,
213.575 , 215.875 MHz (lobby)
- 464.500 MHz with 12.5
KHz "channel space" aka "brown dot" (building/campus
wide)
- note that other FCC
licensed frequencies in the range around the above may be in use by other
Stony Brook campus departments.
- Others possibly in use
by mainstage audio equipment:
- Frequencies in the
ranges of 692 to 716 MHz and 782 to 806 MHz
- 171.045 , 171.905 MHz
- Others possibly in use
by mainstage communications equipment:
- 182.000 Mhz
- 205.925 , 205.450 ,
204.925 , 204.125 MHz
·
Fly system:
- For a lineset schedule
click here
- The fly rail is located
stage left
- Total number of
linesets: 41 (includes 2 electrics on winch motors, excludes fire curtain)
- Weight:
- Manual lineset arbor
capacity (in addition to pipe weight): approximately 850 lbs
- Linesets "B"
and "C" are driven by electric winch motors and have a static
arbor load. Each winch driven "lineset" has a maximum load
capacity of 1200 pounds.
- Total weight available
(in addition to all pipe-weights and normally hung goods): approximately
5200 pounds.
- Battens:
- Distribution:
approximately on 6" centers unless noted.
- Construction:
1.5" (ID) black pipe. All battens comprise at least two sections of
pipe joined with an internal black pipe sleeve
- Linesets "B"
and "C" are welded 1.5" and 1.25" pipe in a somewhat
triangular-trapezoid truss configuration (see section)
- Out trims: (height
above stage floor when gridded)
- Linesets 1 through 38
grid at 57' give or take a few inches.
- Lineset 39 grids at
58' - 7"
- Linesets
"B" and "C" grid at 49' 6" (see section)
- Length:
- Linesets B and C
(winched electrics) are 49' 8" long
- Manual lineset system
pipes vary from 51' to 56' ; only 3 are shorter than 53' and may be
exchanged with the batten from another lineset if necessary.
·
Soft goods:
- Permanent:
- (1) Main curtain:
grape manual guillotine (located on line 1)
- (1) Black velour
traveler: (located on line 36) usually used as most upstage pair of legs
in open position, and may be closed for full black backing.
- Normally hung:
- (4) Pair of black
velour legs: tormentors are 28' x 9' ; #1 and #2 are 28' x 16' ; #3 are
28' x 12'
- (4) Black velour
borders: 10' x 60' (including teaser)
- (1) Seamless sky blue
cyclorama: (located on line 39) 55' x 32'
- Also available:
- Sharkstooth scrims
(30' x 60'):
- One each: Black, Sky
blue, Dark blue
- One full stage black
velour flat curtain in two panels: each is 28'H x 30'W (normally
providing a center split)
- (2) Legs 16' x 36'
- (2) Legs 12' x 28'
- (2) Borders 10' x 60'
- Various other blacks
and goods in varying condition that are rarely needed
·
Dressing rooms:
- All dressing rooms are
located two floors below stage level.
- All dressing rooms have:
- Private showers and
bathrooms
- Mirrors with make-up
lights
- Audio only monitor and
paging reception; paging microphone available for stageright or stageleft
- There are:
- 2 Chorus rooms, each
holding up to 16 people
- 2 Midsize rooms, each
holding up to 8 people
- 3 Small rooms, each
holding up to 4 people
- There is a wardrobe room
located in the dressing room area equipped with:
- (1)Washer and (2)dryers
- Ironing boards and
irons
- Two steamers
- Sewing machine and
sewing supplies
- 4 Portable 8’0 Rolling hanging racks
- There is a green room
located one level below stage level, between stageright and dressing
rooms.
- Dressing rooms are most
easily accessed from stageright, however may be reached from stageleft via
the same path as the offstage crossover.
- The only available
offstage crossover entails going down 2 floors and back up 2 floors on the
other side.
- Note: Not all
dressing rooms are available for all productions. Please discuss dressing
room requirements well in advance of your production.
·
Orchestra shell:
- General description:
Acoustically designed, steel, counter weighted, motor driven orchestra
shell. Rear wall and ceiling fold and store (raised) against rear wall of
stage. Side walls fold and store against upstage side of stage left and
stage right walls of proscenium.
- Erected dimensions:
- Width: 36' - 6"
(upstage) - 49' - 6" (downstage)
- Depth: 21' - 3"
(to plaster line)
- Height: 24' - 5"
(upstage) to 27' - 6"(downstage)
- Stored dimensions:
- Upstage: 36' -
6" centered on rear wall.
- Clearance: 12' -
9" approx.
- Depth: 8' approx.
- Access when erected: 1
door stageleft and 1 stageright (see groundplan)
·
Other:
- Platforms and railings
(see inventory)
- TV:
- There is closed
circuit TV showing the main stage on channel 12.
- The angle, quality,
and size of the image are good.
- Nonetheless if you
would like to use this system you must be able to tune channel 12 (a
video "line input" will not suffice)
- Normally this is used
solely to provide a monitor for patrons awaiting latecomer seating.
- connections are
available in various locations, most notably stageright.
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