Yea, the reasoning behind was for indoor graduations in case it rained. School has about 3100 kids in it. My class was 750 something. It was orginally supose to be 2800 seats, but they axed 300 for extra wide seats all over the theater instead of just in certain areas. Some horrible shots of the school
http://www.wtps.org/wths/buildpix.htm
And some horrible shots of the main theater
http://www.sjlivearts.com/aboutus.html
We have a pit as well, has 3 levels to it. All the way out so it was
level with the
stage, making it a
thrust.
Level with the audience for 'premier' seating. The last
level is on the floor so it will be like a pit. When it was built, was suppose to be motorized. The builders said, "The water table is too high." despite Rowan Univeristy having one a couple miles away. Instead, they wanted motorized
house curtains that
block off areas of the theater to make it smaller.
Well, the 'builders' didn't put in sensors for the things for if they got hung up. So the first time the down stairs ones were used, they got hung up on the doors and the motors burned out. As for the one's in the balcony, some one thought the doors opened on their own. Needless to say they don't and those motors burned out on the first try as well. Of course, the motors are buried in the walls with no way to fix them. :rant off:
Anyway, that pit sounds kinda like the one at Camden County College, minus the tiles. For Diary of Anne Frank, we built over it and use that as the downstairs. Actors hated it because we had 11 people down there for 1/2 before show started, with 4 stuck down there even longer,
Mep, Mr Dussel and Mr Kraller I believe (Sorry if i destroyed the spellings, I'm horrible at spelling). The one tech was for
headset and the very end, when the Nazi's come. He would hold the door with one of the actors slamming on it with a 2x4 so it look and sound like they were trying to
break in.