(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) l-r Hale Centre Theatre Production Designer Kacey Udy and CEO Mark Dietlein gives details about the theatre's stage automation and components that raise, lower, rotate and slide along with custom flying systems located high above the Centre Stage floor, August 8, 2017. The house of the Centre Stage Theatre is an oval, intersected by an X, which creates four entrances for actors. The stage is a 24-foot circle, significantly larger than the theater‘s current 18-foot circular stage, which features a circular ring in the middle. The new stage is entirely automated, with a main lift in the middle and two crescent-shaped side lifts.
The entire stage can be lowered down into the pit. Then two cantilevered slip stages, which weigh 20 tons, can close over it to create a new stage, which will allow for lightning-quick scene changes.Īlso new is the theater’s overhead fly space, where two “bogie” carriages, which function similarly to upside-down freight cars, can move sets. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) l-r Hale Centre Theatre stage automation and components that raise, lower, rotate and slide along with custom flying systems located high above the Centre Stage floor, August 8, 2017. “We do like a little bit of spectacle, that’s our thing, but we always ask ourselves: ‘Does it help the story?’” Together, the new backstage technology will provide theater designers “a completely new range of flexibility,” Udy says. Having two theaters will increase HCT’s capacity from 613 to 1,360.
It means performances will continue throughout the year (except Sundays), rather than closing for two weeks between runs. The company hopes to double its annual audience from 250,000 to 500,000.
This month, season ticket sales have increased 40 percent over sales last August, Sally Dietlein says.
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