Lighting: 428 2.4 Kw, 24 6 Kw ETC Sensor dimmers. Loading: A door upstage center leads to a corridor terminating at the loading dock 105' away. Surface is 3/4" Plyron painted flat black.ĭressing rooms: Total capacity 56 with a green room and one room for four people at stage level, all others are under the stage. Typical arbor handles 1,200 pounds with 50,000 pounds of weight available.įlyfloor: stage right, 21' 9" above stage. In addition there are 4 motorized sets for the first electric and orchestra shell components. 11 double purchase sets upstage operate from the flyfloor. Rigging: 34 single purchase sets operate stage level stage right. Proscenium: 48' 5" wide x 23' 6 1/2" highįire curtain to stage extensions (or pit): 12' or 17'īalcony rail to curtainline: 80' 4" 22 circuitsĬeiling slots to curtainline: 71' and 85' 35 circuits eachīox booms to curtainline at center: 75' 12 circuits per sideĪnti-pro and proscenium window areas: 26 circuits There are pipes above the proscenium because the chambers designed by the architects were too small. It had a 1999 restoration by Turner Organs. Organ: It's a 5 manual, 104 rank Ernest Skinner organ Opus 818, built in 1930. Reopened in 1998 and is considered one of the nation's top concert halls. Landry and Bogan were the theatre consultants, Ashen + Allen were the executive architects, Barton Phelps & Associates were the design architects.
The building was restored and upgraded after the 1994 earthquake. Allison and Allison also designed the Variety Arts Theatre downtown.Ī main floor plan from the website. The Italian Romanesque style building was modeled, in part, on the 10th/11th century San Ambrogio Church in Milan. James Edward Allison (1870-1955) and David Clark Allison (his brother,ġ881-1962) of the Los Angeles firm of Allison and Allison. Website: | | Center for the Art of Performance on Facebook It's the main performance venue for UCLA, what they're calling the The venue has hosted numerous greats including George Gershwin, DukeĮllington, Arnold Schoenberg, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Leonardīernstein and the New York Philharmonic, Twyla Tharp and Mikhailīaryshnikov. Noted philosophy teacher at UC Berkeley and Harvard. Received his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in 1875 and became a They have about 150 more photos of the building in their collection.īuilding is named after Josiah Royce, a California-born philosopher who This construction photo by Thelner Hoover is from the Los Angeles Public Library. The first performing arts season was in 1937. Opened: 1929 as the original building on the UCLA campus.
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