Theatre Specs

Theatre Specs

The Brown Grand Theatre is a tourist attraction and community performing arts center for North Central Kansas. Whether you’re a musician, comedian, actor/actress, performer, or artist of any kind – we want you to be awed by our hospitality and accommodations – so when you leave you’ll tell others how amazing it was to be on stage at The Brown Grand Theatre!

The Theatre is also host to a variety of rentals, community theatre groups, dance recitals, piano recitals, North Central Teens For Christ, Cloud County Community College, the Concordia Unified School District, local churches, the Chamber of Commerce, businesses, and by individuals hosting privately catered suppers, weddings, or parties.

Click here to learn more about Rental Rates at the Brown Grand.

If you’re a film maker and would love to film at the Brown Grand, check out the following link on Locations Hub to learn more.

Brown Grand Specs

  • Seating: 432 Seats, plus second balcony bench-style seating with cushions (installed September 2020)
  • Handicap Accessible Main Floor and Stage
  • Dressing Rooms: two main floor, three upstairs
  • Grand Pianos: 1921 Mason & Hamlin BB Grand Piano and a Tadashi Grand Piano
  • Orchestra Pit: 8-12 pieces

Stage Size

  • 32 ft. wide x 24 ft. deep
  • Wing Space Stage Right – 8 ft. wide, Stage Left 12 ft. wide
  • Curtains:
    • Napoleon Grand Drape – Counter Balanced
    • Rose Traveler (front stage behind Napoleon)
    • Black mid-stage traveler
    • Black back stage traveler
    • Cyclorama (newly installed in June 2026)
  • Loading Docs:
    • First located on the West side of the building with a double door entrance 7″ wide and 6’8 tall.
    • Second located on the back/South side of the building down 5 steps leading to a 7’5″ x 7’5″ double door
  • Proscenium:
    • 50′ tall fly space
    • Line Sets
    • 25 lines
    • Sandbag counter weighted

Audio

  • Soundcraft Impact
  • 32 channel mixer with 6 channel monitor sends, 4 effect processors and 31 band EQ on every output
  • Powered by QSC amplifiers
  • Mains – SSE 26 by Peavey in a left-right configuration
  • Subs – PV 118’s
  • Monitors – 4 in house Peavey 12M’s
  • Small collection of Sure SM 57’s and 58’s
  • Two sure Wireless LAV systems
  • Shure PGX4 with PG58 hand held
  • Peavey PCX U1002 with included handheld and body-pack
  • DI boxes- 2 DB 100 Rapco Horizon Passive Boxes
  • Microphone Stands
  • 10 assorted stands both with and without boom arms

Projection & Lighting

  • Projector: Panasonic PTRZ120WU with lens for 83′ throw
    • First Balcony Mount with projection on house cyclorama
    • HDMI connection available onstage
  • Lighting: Mega-Lite LED System (newly installed in June 2026)
    • Mega-Lite Console MC2410 with Enlighten, Lumen8, and Disco Operating Control Software, 21″ touch screen, 18 assignable faders, 16 assignable hot keys, backlit buttons, 11 encoder wheels, trackball, audio in/out, HD video out via HDMI, and 4 DMX Universe
    • Cove Lighting:
      • 4 Mega-Lite Framebot 600 (580W) – LED, Gobos, Colormation, and more
      • 8 Mega-Lite Drama EW200 – Single Color 6024K daylight fixtures – 200W LED
    • Electric 1:
      • 8 Mega-Lite Colorlite Q120 – LED
      • 2 Mega-Lite Drama Work Lights
      • 5 Mega-Lite MW1 – LED Movers
      • 2 Mega-Lite Spotbot LED CYM 300
    • Electric 2:
      • 5 Mega-Lite Colorlite Q120 – LED
      • 6 Mega-Lite Spotbot LED CYM 300
      • 2 Mega-Lite Drama Work Lights
      • 5 Mega-Lite Lupa 7
    • Electric 3:
      • 5 Mega-Lite Colorlite Q120 – LED
      • 2 Mega-Lite Obra CYC N380
      • 2 Mega-Lite Drama Work Lights
    • Additional:
      • 2 Mega-Lite Drama Follow Spotlights – LED 700
      • Mega-Lite Haze2Engine – water based haze

3 Electrics and Cove Lighting:

  • 1st Electric – 6′ from front of Stage
  • 2nd Electric – 12′ from front of Stage
  • 3rd Electric – 21′ from front of Stage
  • Cove Lighting in the attic – lighting the front of the stage from the house