DESIGN GUIDE: MUSIC AND DRAMA CENTERS
DG 1110.3.120
C H A P T E R 3: COMPOSITE BUILDING PROGRAMS
JANUARY 1981
F I G U R E 3-15.10
DUAL USE FACILITY 2
The large Room should have a full stagehouse
complement including a flown orchestra shell
and pit, and a stage suitable for dance, Broadway
musicals and light opera. Special attention should
be given to loading in from trucks. However, the
actual production plant might be more closely
related to the smaller theater, so that traveling
shows and orchestral presentations are disen-
tangled from on-going scene construction. A typ-
ical Broadway theater packs in a large crowd but
has the barest of performers' facilities and al-
most no preparatory spaces.
Given the larger formal Room, the smaller should
be the most malleable, flexible "machine" pos-
sible, perhaps spartan in appointments, but well-
equipped technically. In this case, common pub-
lic facilities seem to be in order-to conserve
building plant, for one thing, and to identify both
Rooms as important rather than "big and little."
Nor will production activity create this impres-
sion, as it is likely the smaller theater will have
its own schedule of events, and may in fact be
more active.
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