Clarence St Theatre

Stage Dimensions

  • 10.8m  Wide proscenium opening  14.5m  Stage to grid
  • 5.5m  High proscenium opening  7.5m  Stage to fly rail
  • 19.6m  Wide stage wall to wall
  • 11.6m  Stage front to back
  • 4.2m  Apron stage.
  • There is a lighting floor above the main outside loading door.  This restricts the headroom for sets in this area.  Also take note that the three permanent ladders on stage and the area in front of the switchboard should be kept clear.
  • There is a fire curtain installed on our stage and it is necessary to keep the area in which this curtain drops clear.  This is the line approximately 150mm wide just inside the pro arch.

Main Loading Door

  • Height: 2.4m
  • Width: 2.95m
  • Height above ground level: 0.55m

Clarence St Theatre in Function Mode

Seating Capacity  

Theatre seating mode  

  • 144 Balcony   
  • 406 Stalls   
  • Total:  550    

Clarence St Theatre in Restaurant Seating Mode (Annual Christmas at Clarence St Season)

Restaurant seating

  • The venue is licensed and can be fully catered for Buffet or sit down dining.
  • 144 Balcony seats (fixed)
  • 260 at Tables
  • Total: 404

House Seats

  • Six “House” seats will be reserved from the saleable seating.

Piano

  • There is a Yamaha upright piano available.

Dressing Rooms

There are four dressing rooms below the stage.  There is also a green room area and a unisex toilet/shower area. The dressing rooms are equipped with mirrors and makeup lights. The dressing rooms are lockable. There is access from the dressing rooms to both ends of the stage and to the orchestra pit.

Dance Studio

There is a dance studio accessible from the rear of the stage with a wooden floor available for warmup and rehearsal purposes.  It is 14.5m x 8.6m with wooden rails down its long sides and mirrors across its short end. There is an additional hire charge for use of this space and it is generally not available weeknights during school terms from 3pm to 7.00pm.
 
The following equipment is generally available, to ensure the appropriate equipment is available please forward the appropriate lighting, sound and rigging schedules well in advance of the booking.

Lighting Equipment

  • 54  Selecon 1200w High Performance Fresnels 7” 1.2kw
  • 18  Strand SL600 15o – 32o Zoomspots .6kw
  • 2 Robert Juliat 575w HMI Followspots 6” 575w HMI
  • 4  Berkey Colortran 4 light Far-cycs 1kw/light
  • 20  Par 64 Cans CP 62 lamps 10” 1 kw
  • 3 Selecon 1.2kw Narrow Zoomspots 6” 1.2kw

Dimmer & Ancillary Equipment

Located on the  onstage dimmer floor:

  • 36  Dimmers (3x TL DMX rack packs)
  • 60 Theatrelight MkI dimmers TL serial (DMX – TL serial receivers used)

Located at the front of house lighting bridges:

  • 48   Dimmers Jands  FP12 wall mount Located at the front of house lighting bridges
  • 1 Strand 520 Lighting console with Genius Pro software
  • 1 Ceeform 63A 3phase

Patching

  • Onstage patching all terminates in patchable tails at dimmer floor.
  • Front of House bridges patching terminates in patchable tails in Front of House

Intercoms

There is available a 5 station talkback/autocom.

Front of House - Lighting Positions

FOH 2:

Front of House 2 positions are 5.0m in front of pit edge/apron stage.

  • 9.75m stage level to bar
  • 8.85m stage level to ceiling below bar
  • Bar is in six useable section

 ------100------100------400------100------100-----
900       1700      1600      1600       1700      900
                                  Fire Wall

Angles back into the main stage are badly restrictive with reach being only about 1/3 of way back on stage.  This bar is most useful as a position from which to light the apron stage area.

 FOH 1:

Front of House 1 positions are 2.0m in front of pit edge/apron stage.

  • 8.5m stage level to bar
  • 7.5m stage level to ceiling below bar
  • Bar in six sections are per FOH 2.

Angles from FOH 1 allow much deeper penetration of the stage area than FOH 2.  This bar is needed to light the front areas of the main stage as spot bar one flies approximately 800m back from the pro arch line.

Perch 1

  • 2.0m in front of pit edge
  • 2.6m above stage to bottom of perch
  • 3.8m useable height in perch

Angles from this perch make this position generally only useful for side lighting as the angle from this perch tends to cut off one half of the stage diagonally across the stage.

Perch 2

  • 5.0m in front of pit edge
  • 2.6m above stage to bottom of perch
  • 5.2m useable height in perch

Balcony Bar

This is a bar mounted along the front edge of the balcony giving a flat angle into the stage and also a good position for throwing colour washes onto the auditorium ceiling.  There is no looming on this bar and it has a weight restriction.

Onstage Lighting Positions

General Notes

We have 5 spot bars on stage.  Spot bars 1 to 5 are double hung pipes on winches and therefore are not capable of being moved.

Spot Bar 1

  • 800m from the pro arch.  The looming on this double hung bar carries thirty circuits.

Spot Bars 2 - 5

  • All are double hung bars on winches, which cannot be moved.  There are twenty four circuits available on each of these bars
  • All onstage patching sockets run back to the main patch panel on our dimmer floor, which is approximately 2.5m off the stage floor on the OP wall of the theatre above the main loading door.

Sound System

32 Channel Allen and Heath ML3000 Desk

  • 32 channels
  • 2 dual stereo line inputs
  • Main left, right and center outputs with inserts
  • 4 Groups, 8 aux.es
  • 8x4 matrix
  • 8 VCA groups with mutes
  • 4 Audio groups with LCR sub grouping
  • 8 mute groups
  • 4 Band 2 sweep mono EQ, 4 band fixed freq stereo EQ
  • Sweepable highpass filter
  • Talkback mic input
  • Full console monitoring and metering with LED bars and VU
  • 1kHz tone and pink noise generator

8 x QSC amplifiers drive the system from a Peavey Media Matrix Digital Processor

  • 4 RANE GE27 graphic equalisers
  • 1 BSS Stereo EQ
  • 1 AMCRON 300w per channel  ) 4x foldback sends
  • 1 QSC Amplifier   )

Speaker System - Turbosound

The three way stereo left and right speakers are flown in front of the proscenium arch approximately 4.0m above stage level. A two-way centre cluster of speakers is mounted within the ceiling of the auditorium above the orchestra pit/forestage, 18” sub woofers are mounted in the proscenium arch base. Two front fill speakers for the front edge of the stage and foldback wedges are also provided.

Microphones, Variety available – requirements to be specified.

Playback Equipment

  • 1 Tascam 302 cassette deck with music search
  • 1 Denon CD player (single disc)
  • various microphone stands, microphone and speaker leads to support the above equipment.

Mic Waylines

(All waylines are terminated in XLR patchfields at each end)

  • From stage OP: 12 mic waylines
  • From stage PS : 11 mic waylines
  • From OP to pit: 12 mic waylines
  • Return waylines Desk to rack   1 – 12  dedicated to the House PA
      (Side of stage)  13 – 24 available for use

There are two PA flying points above the apron of the stage in front of the Proscenium arch

 Flying

There are 24 sets of lines available for flying on.  This is counting the lines we normally fly our masking on.  They are all hand lines.  We have available a number of whipping sets and canvas counterweight bags.  There are 5 lighting bars and 3 tab bars single hung on winch lines operated from the PS stage floor level. The SWL of the winches is 500Kg. Our wooden headbattens are 13.5m long. There are two 10.5 m battens on spot blocks to provide box masking. There is one tab track.

Notes: There are a number of things to take into account when laying out a flying plan for this theatre.  There are a number of places in the grid that are difficult or impossible to fly in.

  • Clearance around a fire pipe to next rope position is approximately 150mm.
  • Clearance around a V in the grid to next rope position is approximately 200mm.
  • It is possible to fly a single set of lines in the centre of each V but we only have available two sets of blocks at the moment which will fit in this position.
  • Obviously it is impossible to fly through the two V’s which have RSJ’s below them.
  • Each single line block takes 200mm of space in the grid.  Each triple line block takes 250mm of space in the grid.  This therefore means that although cloths can be flown at 200mm centres, that this cannot be maintained over a large number of cloths.

Grid Layout

  • 150mm    Fire curtain     
  • 250mm    House curtain
  • 800mm    V in grid Winch position of Spot bar 1
  • 1100mm  Sprinkler pipe
  • 2000mm  Tab 1 winch position 
  • 2300mm  V in grid
  • 3100mm  Winch position of Spot bar 2
  • 3700mm  V in grid, RSJ below grid
  • 4000mm  Sprinkler pipe
  • 4300mm  Tab 2 winch position
  • 5100mm   V in grid
  • 5400mm   Winch position of Spot bar 3
  • 6500mm   V in grid
  • 6950mm   Sprinkler pipe
  • 7600mm   Winch position of Spot bar 4
  • 7900mm   V in grid, RSJ below grid
  • 9000mm   Tab 3 winch position
  • 9250mm    V in grid
  • 9770mm    Sprinkler pipe
  • 10000mm   Winch position Spot bar 5
  • 10800mm   V in grid
  • 11200mm   Last possible flying position

Standard Cloths Available

Legs Borders
5 sets 2.4m x 7.1m Black Legs  5   13.5m x 3m Black Borders

3 Black curtains 13.5m x 7.2m, only one on tab track, 2 hung on bars.

Gel Types and Colours

  • We use Chris James gel in all our luminaires.
  • We keep a good stock of the Chris James range of gels.

Current Stock Colours: 

100

Spring Yellow

131

Marine Blue

166

Pale Red

101

Yellow

132

Medium Blue

170

Deep Lavender

102

Light Amber

134

Golden Amber

172

Lagoon blue

103

Straw

135

Deep Golden Amber

174

Dark steel blue

104

Deep Amber

136

Pale Lavender

176

Loving Amber

105

Orange

137

Special Lavender

179

Chrome Orange

106

Primary Red

138

Pale Green

180

Deep Lavender

107

Light Rose

139

Primary Green

181

Congo Blue

108

English Rose

140

Summer blue

182

Light Red

109

Light Salmon

141

Bright Blue

183

Moonlight blue

110

Middle Rose

142

Pale Violet

192

Flesh Pink

111

Dark Pink

143

Pale Navy Blue

193

Rosy Amber

113

Magenta

144

No Colour Blue

194

Surprise Pink

115

Peacock Blue

147

Apricot

195

Zenith Blue

116

Med. Blue Green

148

Bright Rose

196

True Blue

117

Steel Blue

151

Gold Tint

197

Alice Blue

118

Light Blue

152

Pale Gold

198

Palace Blue

119

Dark Blue

153

Pale Salmon

201

Full CT Blue

120

Deep Blue

154

Pale Rose

202

1/2 C.T. blue

121

James Green

156

Chocolate

339

Rose Purple

122

Fern Green

157

Pink

343

Medium Lavender

124

Dark Green

158

Deep Orange

357

Special Medium Blue

126

Mauve

161

Slate Blue

361

Surprise Blue

127

Smoky Pink

162

Bastard Amber

363

Special Medium Blue

128

Bright Pink

164

Flame Red

 

 

129

Heavy frost

165

Daylight Blue

 

 

Additional EXTRA Equipment

The following equipment may be available if required dependant on demand within Theatre Services Theatres and at additional cost. Please advise your requirements as early as possible.

Hamilton City Theatres also operate an Equipment Brokerage service. If the equipment you require is not listed we are happy to source it for you.

Additional Equipment

  • Dry Ice Machine 1 large capacity, 1 small capacity
  • Strobe
  • Mirror balls, large and small
  • Black light UV tubes 4ft
  • Slide Projector
  • 2 x Hitachi CP995X Video Projectors 6000 ansi lumens
  • 2 x Da Lite Rear Projection Screen 3m x 4m
  • Lecterns

Lighting Equipment

  • Lighting Equipment
  • 8 Par 64 cans black CP61, CP62   1.0Kw
  • 2 Selecon ZS wide    0.65Kw
  • 6 Selecon ZS medium    1.2Kw
  • 3 Selecon ZS narrow    1.2Kw

Floor Stands

We have available twelve floor stands capable of holding a 2.5 - 3.5m alloy boom pole.  These have a footing area of approximately 600mm x 450mm.

Radio Microphone Systems

A variety of radio systems are available including Toa, Shure and Sennheiser with Handheld, lapel or body mics

Microphones (Note; Up to 4 mics are supplied free with the ½ Sound system, up to eight with the full system). A variety of Mics are available including condenser, lectern, PZM and vocal

Risers

A variety of sizes and heights are available, please advise your requirements.