Just returned from Fringe. My father and I (he’s the de facto production assistant right now) measured the theater and lobby down to the 1/16th inch - with the wall mapped out for the Penrose angle and the wall center set for a 20 foot throw from the video projector.

The front of the gallery is at the top of this drawing. The wall bisecting the gallery is angled, with the right hand side (in the drawing) 12′ 4 3/4″ from the window seats at the front of the gallery. The wall hits the left hand wall almost dead center, pure luck, as the center wall pivots on a point midway between the side walls and 20′ from the back wall. Though I think we may push the wall forward three feet to get a 23′ throw.

Regardless, the center wall is at a 108 degree angle on one side and 72 degrees on the other side, creating angles synced to our Penrose tile themed ceiling.

The lobby of the theater will be 17′ 2 1/16″ deep on one side,  12′ 1″ deep on the other, and 17′ 3 5/8″ wide.  Those measurements take into account a wall that is 3 3/4′ wide.  The angled wall will be 17′ 11 7/8″ long.

Sadly, I forgot to get the measurements for the bleachers. GAR! But I’ll make a model in Berkeley Sunday, 1′ to 1″ scale and get those measurements figured out.

This is another potential problem, the column containing the plumbing on the left hand wall (in the drawing) has some sort of ornamental (or not) extrusion that angles out and will interfere with our metal frame for the ceiling support. As well, next to it, is a rectangular box protruding from the wall, well past where we wanted our wall to connect. So, we’ll have to build ceiling and wall around those structures.

We also mapped out the electric. Bad news there as well, 5 circuits, 10 amps each. Far less than we wanted. I’ll talk to David, Carson, Skye, and Alex next week about how we will handle that.