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Green and Sumter Streets
Main Office, Room 402
Columbia, SC 29208

phone: 803.777.4288   
fax: 803.777.6669
email: theatre@sc.edu or dance@sc.edu

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Drayton Hall Theatre




Located on College Street between Sumter and Greene Streets, this 404 seat proscenium theatre was renovated in 1989. The theatre has a 60' grid, 25 line counterweight system, ETC Computer Lighting System, and a Yamaha and JBL Sound System.



I. House Information

Type of Theatre- Proscenium
Lobby Size
House size
Box Office located in Lobby on the house left side and has a wall mounted intercom tied to the backstage communication system.
Seating Capacity 404 seats on stepped floor.

Select here for Seating Chart of Drayton Hall.


II. Dressing Rooms

There are two dressing rooms located under the stage floor. Access is by stairwells located stage right and stage left. Both dressing rooms have mirrors, make-up lights showers, sinks, lavatory, and costume racks.

Men's dressing room capacity: 10
Women's dressing room capacity: 12


An audience in Drayton Hall during a recent rental: a debate among the Democratic candidates for President.

III. Stage Specifications

A. Stage Dimensions

  1. Proscenium arch: 36'-6" wide by 17'-9" tall
  2. Wing space: 13'-0" stage right and 17'-0" stage left
  3. Stage Depth: apron to plaster line 14'-0"
    plaster line to back wall 35'-0"
  4. Grid Height: 53'
  5. Length of Pipe: 52'

B. Floor

  1. Surface is masonite painted with flat black latex.
  2. There are two traps in the stage floor located 16'-9" from apron on the CL measuring 16'-6" wide x 12'-8" deep


C. General Stage Information

 

  1. Crossover is located under stage
  2. The loading dock measures 10'-10" x 23'-11" and is located stage right the loading dock door measures 8'-9"x12'-0"
  3. Ladders stock are 12'-0" A-frame and a cherry picker
  4. There is a removable orchestra pit
  5. The fly system consists of 24 counterweight lines and 2 hemp sets. Operation is from a pin rail Stage right 26'-9" from the deck. There is also a pin rail stage left.

D. Crew

The house is crewed by both staff and students



IV. Draperies

A. Main Rag

The main rag is rust colored operated manually from stage right

B. Legs

There are 4 sets of legs. Each leg measures 8' x 24' made of black velour.

C. Borders

There are 3 full-stage borders measuring 8' x 50' each. There are also 4 spot borders measuring 10' x 20'. All borders are black velour

D. Backings

  1. There is one full-stage Traveler made of black velour. The traveler is operated manually from stage right.
  2. There are 2 black scrims measuring 25' x 42' and 18' x 30'.
  3. There is a drape for backing the orchestra in the pit measuring
    8' x 40'

V.Lighting

A. Control board

ETC Impression board with 400 cues per show capacity, 150 control channels, and 24 sub masters. There is proportional soft patch of up to 512 dimmers. The display is a Samtron multi-sync color monitor. Output is DMX 512. Playback on two auto fader pairs. The location of the board is in the control booth at the back of the house. The booth can be accessed from back stage or front of house.

B. Dimmers

110 working dimmers mounted in a L86 installation rack. The dimmer vault is located in the house right box boom.

C. Circuits

There are 150 circuits- 88 on stage, 67 FOH, 4 in the orchestra pit, and 1 on the grid. see circuit diagram

D. Lighting Positions

There is one fixed electric operated by winch other electrics can be spotted on any batten utilizing drop boxes. There are 4 drop boxes with 8 circuits per box. There are 3 FOH positions and 2 box boom positions on house right and house left. see lighting positions

E. Lighting Instrument Inventory

16-Strand 6x9 (1K-FEL)
5-Strand 6x16 (1K-FEL)
5-Strand 4.5x6 (1K-FEL)
40-Altman 6x9 (750w-EHG)
14-Altman 6x12 (750w-EHG)
14-Altman 6x16 (750w-EHG)
10-Berkey Zoom (1K-FEL)
12-Strand 6 Fresnel (750w-BTN)
4-Strand 8 Fresnel (1K-BVT)
20-Altman 8 Fresnel (1K-BVT)
12-Par 64 Medium Flood (1k-MFL)
6-Scoop 14" (1K)
9-Industrial work light (500w)
8-6 ft 4 Color Strip Light (300w R40FL / each lamp X 4 circuits -4 lamps per circuit)
4- Far Cyc 4 Cell (1K-FFT)

VI. Sound

A. Sound console
Yamaha mixer model M916 with 16 channels in 2 program outs and 2 fold back out.

B. Amplification

  1. 3 JBL model 6320 with left and right out each channel has a capacity of 75 watts at 8 ohms or 150 watts at 4 ohms.
  2. 2 JBL monitor amplifiers with 70 volt output. One for lobby speakers and one for stage.

C. Output

  1. 2 Otari model MX-50 50 reel to reel decks
  2. Tascam model 122 MK II cassette deck

D. Speakers

  1. House- 2 JBL Model 4691 B
  2. Monitor- 2 Shure Model VA 301-S
  3. Booth Monitor- 2 JBL Studio Monitors model 4406

E. Misc.

  1. 2 Yamaha model SPX 900 effect processors
  2. Patch panel


F. Jack locations

  1. Speaker
    House left upper mezzanine #6,7,8,9
    House right upper mezzanine #1,2,3,4
    Stage left plaster line #5,6,7,8
    Stage right plaster line #1,2,3,4

  2. Microphone

    #1 catwalk
    stage left plaster line #1,2
    center stage box #3,4
    Stage right plaster line #5,6

VII Communications

A. Intercom

  1. Power supply
    Telex model PS-24 two line located in control booth
  2. Head sets
    2 single muff and 4 double muff
  3. Belt packs
    6 working
  4. Telex 1c-2sp audiocom speaker station locations
    men's dressing room
    women's dressing room
    box office
  5. intercom wall jack locations
    control booth (2)
    house right upper mezzanine
    house left upper and lower mezzanine
    stage right plaster line and pin rail
    stage left plaster line and pin rail
    orchestra pit and trap room

B. Monitors

  1. Mic location 1st catwalk

  2. Speaker with variable volume control location
    control booth
    box office
    conference room
    men's dressing room
    women's dressing room

Drayton Hall
Batten Schedule


Batten # - Distance to Plaster Line - Assignment

  1. 1'-4" Main Rag
  2. 2'-0" Border #1
  3. 2'-6" Leg Set #1
  4. 4'-0" 1st Electric
  5. 5'-6"
  6. 7'-0"
  7. 7'-6" Leg Set #2
  8. 8'-6"
  9. 9'-6" Border #2
  10. 10'-6" Leg Set #3
  11. 12'-6" 2nd Electric
  12. 13'-0"
  13. 14'-6" (Alternate Traveler Position)
  14. 15'-6"
  15. 16'-0" Border #3
  16. 17'-6" Leg Set #4
  17. 18'-0"
  18. 19'-0" 3rd Electric
  19. 23'-0" Border #4
  20. 23'-6" 4th E
  21. 25'-0" Scrim 1
  22. 28'-6" 5th Electric
  23. 30'-0" Scrim 2 Storage
  24. 32'-6" Cyc
    Hemp 1 Currently at 20'-0"
    Hemp 2 Currently at 21'-6"
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