Capacity

384 seats in the normal configuration. An additional 24 seats are available when the voms are covered. Advance arrangements must be made for the additional seating.

Accessibility

The Forum has removable seats to accommodate wheelchair-bound patrons. Access to the house is via a long gentle ramp.

A two-channel Infrared Listening System provides enhanced audio for all performances and audio description for one performance of each production. A current schedule is available by clicking here .

Additionally, a golf cart is available to assist patrons with accessibility issues to and from the parking lot. Please notify the Box Office prior to your performance if you are in need of this service; additionally, you may pull into the five minute parking in front of the theatre, and a friendly La Jolla Playhouse greeter will assist you.

House Policies

The house opens one half hour before each performance. The curtain for evening performances Tuesday — Wednesday is 7:30 pm; the curtain for evening performances Thursday — Saturday is 8:00 pm; and the curtain for evening performances on Sunday is 7:00 pm. The curtain for matinees is at 2:00 pm (Saturday and Sunday only). The theatre is dark on Monday.

Green Room

Measures 16' x 16'. Located adjacent to dressing rooms at stage level. The Green Room is equipped with a pay phone, a chilled water dispenser, vending machines and a refrigerator. The Page/Monitor and CCTV Systems provide for audio and video monitoring of the stage.

Stage Door

Located near the Green Room at stage level.

Dressing Rooms

There are two chorus dressing rooms at stage level; one with a capacity for 18 people (men's), the other with a capacity for 12 people (women's). Each dressing room has sinks, make-up mirrors, showers and toilets. The Page/Monitor System provides for audio monitoring of the stage.

Quick Change Rooms

Each vom has room for a quick-change area just off the thrust, as well as room for quick changes in the offstage hallways stage right (SR) and stage left (SL).

Wardrobe Room

The wardrobe room is located near dressing rooms with basic sewing supplies, a sewing machine, steamer, iron and ironing board, two washers and dryers and a sink. Sewing facilities are located in the Weiss Theatre. There is no dry cleaning on site.

Control Room (booth)

Located in the rear of the auditorium, up one flight from the back of the house. The Page/Monitor System provides for a booth monitor and the paging of the FOH and backstage areas. Two channels of video are available, providing a stage view plus one additional view as needed. Four channels of wired intercom are available for production, plus a set of four wireless belt packs for stage crew.

Technical Measurements

The information included in this outline is usable for general purposes and non-critical measurements. Separate technical drawings made from actual measurements of the space are available upon request.

CRITICAL MEASUREMENTS SHOULD BE CONFIRMED BY FIELD MEASUREMENT.

Dock

Dock is 3' high. It is located directly off the main access road (Weiss Lane). Two or three trucks can be accommodated at one time. Equipment and scenery may be loaded straight onto the stage. The loading door from the dock measures
18' 0" h x 12' 0" w and leads through the stage left (SL) wall of the stage.

stage dimensions

• Three quarter thrust with 2 vom entrances. Plaster line (setting line) is at the very US edge of the concrete rise for the first row.
• Stage Floor to bottom of catwalks: 21' 6"
• Stage Floor to bottom of lower pipe: 22' 0"
• Stage Floor to catwalk handrail: 25' 6"
• Stage Floor to US Pipes (see below): 24' 6" (to bottom of pipe)
• Width of stage area: 76' 6" USL to USR wall (between I Beams)
• 41' 9" at plaster line
• 27' 9" DSL Vom to DSR Vom (DS point)
• Depth of stage: 54' 0" DSC thrust to US wall
• 28' 7" DSC thrust to plaster line
• 25' 4" Plaster line to US wall
• Stage floor surface: 5/8" MDF on tongue and groove plus 1" ply on fir sleepers with neoprene padding

Traps

• 56 - 4' x 4' pressure skin construction. MDF plus 3/4" ply, steel framed and sound insulated, with 1/4" ply bottom skins
• Stage to trap room floor: 4' 0"
• Trap room depth 44' 0" at CL (begins 6' 9" from DSC)
• Trap room width: 16' 0" on thrust, split at CL
• 64' 1" at 7' 1" US of PL (trap access)
• Voms: 12' 0" wide ramps with flexible angle configurations

Overstage Pipes

The overstage pipes or US pipes are a series of existing 1 1/2 sch 40 pipes chained to square beams spaced 12' 0" from CL, running US/DS from just US of the #1 catwalk. The distance from the bottom of these pipes to the stage floor is 24' 6". All pipes are available for either scenic or electrics use in consultation with the Technical Director and Lighting Supervisor. (Call (858) 550.1070 for assistance.) Additional pipes may be added as required.

Overstage pipe distance from plaster line

• 1 4' 8"
• 2 5' 5"
• 3 6' 2"

i-beam 7' 1 1/2"

• 4 7' 5"
• 5 9' 5"

focus track 1 11' 1"

• 6 12' 4"
• 7 13' 9"
• 8 14' 7"

focus track 2 15' 7"

• 9 17' 3"

focus track 3 19' 8"

• 10 20' 3"
• 11 22' 6"
• 12 24' 6"
• 13 26' 2"

Soft Goods Inventory

The information included in this outline is based on the latest available inventory.
Specific goods should be confirmed with Technical Director.

• 6 23' 7"h x 10' 0" Black Velour Legs, no fullness (3 pairs)
• 2 6' 0"h x 60' 0" Black Velour Borders, chain at bottom.
• 1 3' 0"h x 60' 0" Black Velour Border
• 1 2' 6"h x 60' 0" Back Velour Border
• 2 24' 0"h x 30' 0" Black Velour Panel, 150% fullness
• 1 23' 6"h x 60' 0" White Bounce Cyc (damage on SL end)
• 1 23' 6"h x 60' 0" White Scrim
• 1 22' 0"h x 60' 0" Black Scrim (NB: This scrim does not extend to the US Pipes as do the other soft goods. A border is usually hung on the same pipe as the black scrim).

General Electrics Information

The Weiss Forum Theatre is a thrust stage with seven lighting catwalks downstage and ten semi-permanent Electrics' pipes over the upstage area. At this time there are no flying electrics. The house dimming package consists of 182 Colortran ENR dimmers, 140 at 2.4 kW in the catwalks, 42 in drop boxes, and 2 at 6kW. The system also includes 52 circuits that are wired in parallel to other locations throughout the theatre. There is no patch bay, therefore no existing method for quick re-patching.

The control console is an ETC Obsession 1, 1500 channel. Twenty non-dim circuits are provided with control at the light board operator position in the booth

The lighting inventory is attached listed below. Usually designers run out of dimmers before running out of instruments. However, additional equipment can be rented locally with advance notice. All rental costs are charged to the show budget.

A packet of facilities drawings is available. Please feel free to contact the Production Department at (858) 550.1070 x136 for information.

Instrument/Accessory Inventory

*Check barrel count as part of prelims with Electrics Department at (858) 534-6697.

Floating Inventory

We have an additional inventory of equipment such as followspots, color scrollers, ministrips, foggers, hazers, strobes, etc. that are shared between our theatre spaces. If you have additional needs beyond the listed inventory please consult the Lighting Supervisor.

Sound System

The Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre is a 400-seat thrust stage, with the control booth located slightly above and right-of-center at the rear of the house. The console is permanently located at the house-right end of the control booth, with a six-foot sliding glass window to allow for rudimentary level setting. The amplifiers are located between the 5th and 6th catwalks. Sound system power is dedicated, but not tranformer isolated in the Forum Theatre. Speakers may be hung from the seven catwalks over the house/thrust, and from various positions over the up-stage acting area. Inventory is as follows:

Sound Console

• Yamaha GA 24/12
• 20 mono and 2 stereo input modules
• 2 stereo outputs (S1 balanced, S2 unbalanced)
• 10 mix outputs (M1-M4 Variable or Fix mode)
• 2 Matrix outputs
• 4 stereo AUX returns
• Tape in/out jacks

Automation

• LCS Matrix-3 System
• LX-300 frame with 8 inputs and 16 outputs
• 16 Tracks of WildTracks Playback
• BeOS Computer with 750MHz PIII Processor and 256MB of System RAM
• RIF-108 CueMixer Console Interface
• (2) Samsung 170MP LCD 17" Flat-Screen Monitors
• Gefen CAT5-2000I KVM Extender (PS/2, ADB, USB, RS-232, video)
• Epson Stylus Color 880 USB/Parallel Printer
• Tripplite Smart 2200 Rack-Mount UPS

Playback

• (3) Sony MDS-JE520 minidisk decks
• (1) Tascam 122mkII 3-head cassette decks
• (1) Technics SL-PG480A CD player with auto cue

Processing

• (2) Yamaha Rev-500 Effects Processors

Signal Lines

• (1) 19pr snake to amps located between the 5th and 6th catwalks
• (26) microphone lines located throughout theatre, available at console patch bay
• (4) on catwalk #1
• (6) two each on catwalk #3, 5, and 7
• (4) two each on up-stage wall SL and SR
• (4) two each on seating riser DSL and DSR
• (2) on seating riser DSC
• (4) two each in vom DSL and DSR
• (2) in USR trap room
• (20) 4-conductor Neutrik speaker circuits located over stage and house
• (2) USC
• (2) mid-stage center
• (14) two located at center-line on each catwalk
• (2) rear of house

Amplifiers and Speakers (House Configuration)

Up-Stage

• (4) Ramsa WS-A500 (12" LF, 60x40 horn, 200w)
• (2) Ramsa WP-9440 amps (350w/ch @ 8 ohms)

Main (proscenium l/r)

• (2) Ramsa WS-A500 (12" LF, 60x40 horn, 200w)
• Ramsa WP-9440 amps (350w/ch @ 8 ohms)
• Vocal System (Cluster)
• (4) Electro-Voice Sx-300 (12" LF, 65x65 horn, 300w)
• Crest VS1100 amps (300w/ch @ 8 ohms)

Side-fills/Up-stage Surrounds

• Electro-Voice SX-80 (8" LF, 90x65 horn, 175w)
• Crest VS650 amps (200w/ch @ 8 ohms)

Mid/Down-stage Surrounds

• (4) Ramsa WS-A80 (8" LF, HF horn, 80w)
• (2) Crest VS650 amps (200w/ch @ 8 ohms)

Subwoofer System

• Bag End S18E-C (18" driver, 400w)
• Crest VS1500 amps (400w/ch @ 8ohms)
• (1) Bag End ELF-M mono controller (2 in, 1 out)

Intercom System

The Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre is hard-wired with four channels of RTS compatible intercom throughout. A UHF intercom system is available, and is assignable to one intercom channel. Inventory is as follows:

• (1) RTS PS-30 six channel power supply (four channels for use in the Forum Theatre)
• (1) RTS MCE 325 four channel programmable user station
• (10) RTS BP350 two channel belt packs
• (12) Beyerdynamic DT108 single muff headsets
• (2) RTS WMS 300 two channel speaker stations
• (2) ClearCom HS-6 handsets
• (1) HME System 800 wireless intercom with four belt packs (frequencies vary, please inquire)

Page/Monitor System

The Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre Page/Monitor System provides for Stage Manager announcements and stage monitoring from many locations. Announcements may be made to the dressing rooms, green room and crossover areas via a page mic, or to the house via a God mic. Monitoring of the stage action is provided by a microphone located in the catwalks. Speaker volumes are user-adjustable at all locations, however, this is a priority paging system designed so that Stage Manager pages are heard at FULL VOLUME regardless of individual volume control settings.

Video Monitoring System

The Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre CCTV system provides inputs/outputs located throughout the theatre. A black-and-white CCD camera with excellent low-light visibility provides a stage view to the green room and off-stage right at all times. Additional cameras/monitors may be added as needed.

Infrared Listening System

As mandated by ADA regulations, the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre provides enhanced audio to its hearing-impaired patrons for all performances. Headsets are available at the box office prior to curtain time on the day of the show. Amplification of the on-stage action is provided by a microphone located in the catwalks and an infrared transmitter located in the control booth. This signal is broadcast to individual headsets via three infrared emitters located above the thrust. A second channel is utilized during the La Jolla Playhouse season for audio-description.

Infrared Listening System Inventory is as Follows:

• (1) Sennheiser SI 1013 single channel infrared transmitter
• (1) Sennheiser SI 1011 single channel infrared transmitter
• (1) PAS Alpha 1 DC power supply
• (1) Sennheiser SZI 1029-120 high power radiator (CS)
• (2) Sennheiser SZI 1229 radiators (SR/L)
• (14) Sennheiser H-200 two channel receivers

Stage Management Notes

The Stage Manager has access to the intercom, paging and video monitoring systems when located in the control booth or at the house-center tech tables. The Stage Manager is also provided with their own monitor speaker in the control booth. Communication with House Management is available via an Aiphone telephone system. The Stage Manager's handset is located in the control booth, and the House Manger's handset is located outside, to the right of the theatre entrance. There are also Aiphone lines to the box office, stage right and wardrobe on the same system.

Floating Inventory

The sound department also maintains a floating inventory of playback, processing, amplifiers, loudspeakers, monitors, Shure UHF wireless mics, HME VHF wireless mics and a portable iMac with Audio Desk and Glyph M Project. Please inquire.

Important Telephone Numbers for the Mandell Weiss Forum:

• Booth (858) 534-3645
• Stage Right/Tech Table (858) 534-4063
• Green Room (858) 534-3831