Seating
Hamman Hall seats 475 people (see attached seating chart).

Building Entrance
The main entrance, box office and lobby are located on the south side of the building.
Public restrooms are located in the lower lobby.
The entrances to the theatre are in the upper lobby, upstairs from the main entrance.

Handicapped Access
Available thru the entrance door on the east side of the building.
There are a total of 10 wheelchair locations in the front row of the audience, 4 on the house left side, 4 on the house right side and 1 on each side of the center section.
The restrooms are located in the lower lobby at the front of the building, the handicapped access to the restrooms is thru the east side entrance, around the building under the covered walkway, and into lower lobby.
There is no handicapped access to the stage or backstage areas.

Stage Dimensions
Proscenium opening: 15’-6” tall x 32’-0” wide

Plaster line to front of apron: 11’-6”

Plaster line to midstage travelers: 12’-6”

Plaster line to scrim: 18’-10”

Plaster line to cyc: 19’-1”

Plaster line to upstage travelers: 20’-6”

Wing Space
SL Wing Space: Space is very limited. There is a space of 8’-0” from the offstage edge of the legs to the wall. The ceiling is only 11’-5” high in the SL wings.

SR Wing Space: Space is very limited. There is a space of 8’-0” from the offstage side of the legs to the wall. The SR wing space is also storage for lighting instruments, the dimmer racks and an aerial work platform. Due to stored items, the ceiling height ranges from 6’-6” to 11’-5” in various areas.

Stage Floor
The stage floor has a ¼” masonite surface. It is painted black with a satin finish. Screws are allowed into the stage floor. Nails, stage screws and lag screws are NOT permitted.

Duct tape is not permitted for taping to the floors in the Hall. Only Gaff, Cloth Spike and Glow tapes are allowed. They can be purchased locally at Stagelight (2310 Richton, 713-942-0555).

House Draperies

Legs: 4 pairs, black velour, 9’-0” x 20’-0”, on traveler track

Borders: 4, black velour, 5’-0” x 49’-0”

Travelers: one midstage and one upstage, both are black velour, 22’ x 40’, center opening

Cyc: seamless white, 18’-6” x 40’-0”, on a walk along traveler, lit from behind

Scrim: black, 18’-0” x 40’-0”, on a walk along traveler

**The house draperies cannot be moved from their designated battens. Legs may be adjusted on or off stage.**
**We currently do not have a house curtain.**

Line Sets
Hamman Hall does not have a fly system. There are three dedicated electric battens on a motorized winch system. Scenery cannot be hung from these battens.

All other battens are dead hung from ceiling trusses and are dedicated to electrics or stage draperies. Scenery could possibly be hung from these battens depending on the weight and size of the scenery. This would only be permitted after being discussed with the Technical Director.

Our battens and electrics are accessible by use of an aerial work platform/personnel lift. It is a JLG, model no. 20EL-AC, electric powered only, has a maximum height of 20’-0” and maximum capacity of 350 lbs. Only Hamman Hall employees may use the lift.

Support Areas
Crossover: There is a crossover bridge along the back wall of the stage behind the scrim, cyc & upstage travelers. The bridge is a 2’-6” wide by 32’-0” long platform that is 3’-0” above the stage level. The ground row instruments for the cyc are below the bridge.

Stage Access: The loading dock doors are in the rear wall of the stage on the SR side. When the doors are fully opened, there is a 5’-8” wide x 6’-6” tall opening. There is a minimal (4’-0” x 9’-6”) concrete loading platform just outside of the doors on the exterior wall of the building. The platform is 4’-3” above the street level and accessible by a set of 4’-0” wide stairs. There is a small, enclosed parking area on the backside of the building. There is room for 1-2 vans or a small U-Haul style truck for unloading. Once unloaded all vehicles must be moved to visitor parking.

Storage: Storage is limited to the minimal wing spaces. There are no alternate storage areas in Hamman Hall.

Dressing Rooms
There is a dressing room on each side of the stage. A spiral staircase in each wing space accesses the dressing rooms.

Each dressing room can comfortably handle 10 people. Each has lighted makeup tables, mirrors, a restroom, two sinks and costume racks. There are no intercom capabilities to the dressing rooms.

There is a 30’-0” x 30’-0” rehearsal room in the basement of Hamman Hall. It can be used, for an extra rental fee, as additional dressing/meeting room space. The rehearsal room is used as a classroom; therefore it is not available at all times.




LIGHTING EQUIPMENT

Light Plot, Ground Plan & Paperwork

Vector works Files (email upon request):
1/4" = 1'-0"
3/8" = 1'-0"
1/4" = 1'-0" Ground Plan

PDF Files:
1/4" = 1'-0"
3/8" = 1'-0"
1/4" = 1'-0" Ground Plan

Control Board
ETC Eos.

Information about the Eos from ETC can be accessed thru their website: http://www.etcconnect.com. You can download the Eos offline editor software for free from their website for programming cues ahead of time.

Dimmers
144 Strand CD-80 2.4KW dimmers, located in two dimmer racks in the SR wing space (yes, they do make it a bit noisy backstage but they’ve been there for 15 years and are permanent).

Houselights
Control locations from back stage right and in the control booth.

Dance Booms
Dance booms (6 – 13’ tall) are available by request for side lighting. There is a set up and take down charge involved.

Contact Technical Director for the lighting instrument and equipment inventory

SOUND EQUIPMENT

Live mixing of musical performers (singers & musicians) in the space cannot be done solely with Hamman Hall’s sound equipment. The mixer is permanently installed in the control booth. While there are monitors in the control booth, there is also an air intake vent for the building’s ventilation system in the booth. The vent creates a fair amount of additional noise in the booth. All microphone levels must be set during a rehearsal or sound check before the performance.

Hamman Hall does not have the capacity, or the equipment to provide monitors for live musicians. There are two stage monitors located approximately 10 ft. above the stage, one behind each side of the proscenium opening. They really are only successful as monitors for dancers during a dance performance. The system will have feedback problems when multiple live microphones are used upstage of the proscenium opening. There are two Shure Easyflex Overhead Microphones for our monitoring system; they are permanently mounting in the ceiling, above the stage near the proscenium opening.

The most successful productions involving live musicians in Hamman Hall have been achieved by bringing in professional audio production companies from outside of Rice University. If you are interested, the Technical Director can recommend a few companies that have worked in Hamman Hall in the past.

Mixer
Mackie 24 x 8 Mixing Console

Playback
Sony MDS-JB940 Minidisc Recorder/Player
Tascam MD-350 Minidisc Recorder/Editor
Tascam CD-A500 CD Player/Cassette Deck

House Speakers
2 – Bag End Time Align 5000 Speakers (1 SL & 1 SR, hung from ceiling)
1 – 18” Bag End S18E – C Elf Subwoofer (located beneath apron of stage)
2 – JBL Control 5 Speakers (onstage monitors, 1 from each wing)

Mic/Line Inputs
All onstage mic/line inputs are thru a Roadmaster 16 channel, 200 ft. microphone snake. It is located SL near the proscenium opening. There are no mic/line inputs from the SR side.

Microphones
6 – Shure SM57 Dynamic Cardioid Microphones (best for drum & instrument reinforcement)
2 – Shure SM58 Dynamic Cardioid Microphones (best for vocals)
2 – Samson UH 1 Handheld Wireless Microphones
1 – Samson UT1L Lavalier Wireless Microphones
1 – Audio – Technica Pro49QL Podium Microphone

Microphone Stands
7 Floor Stands
2 Desk Stands

Intercom System
Clearcom CS – 210, 2 Channel System
7 – Production Intercom Headsets (SMH 310) & 6 Beltpaks (BP – 1)
Clearcom outputs are available in the SL & SR wings and thru the booth into the audience.