The George Daily Auditorium is a 696-seat house that opened in August of 1997. It has a proscenium-style stage and a proscenium opening of 49′ x 18′ with a 31′ depth from the proscenium arch to the back wall. There is a 14′ deep curved apron with an 8′ deep orchestra pit underneath. The floor is softwood covered with masonite in the acting area with a hardwood apron. Wing spaces are concrete.
There are two 15’x16′ dressing rooms with full bathrooms and showers included. There is one stage right and one stage left 8′ from the proscenium opening. The backstage consists of an attached black box theatre that is 50′ x 28 1/2′ and an adjoining shop area.
There is a complete fly system of 25 lines including 3 electrics, an act curtain, traveler, concert curtain, sky cyc, and a white scrim. The battens are capable of flying out to 41′ above the stage. There are various motor points dead hung from the roof beams about the fly loft.
The fire alarm system utilizes optical smoke detectors that can not be disabled. Light to moderate haze/fog is acceptable but heavy haze/fog will trigger the alarms. We have no way of turning this off. There are a loading dock and drive that can accommodate semis.
The overhead door from the loading dock into the backstage areas is 12’6″h x 12’w. Adjacent to the lobby is a separate reception area with serving kitchen facilities.
The lighting is controlled by an ETC Element Control Console with 1024 outputs and 250 channels. It is housed in the control booth at the rear of the house.
There is one front of house lighting cove above the ceiling and two front of house side pockets. On-stage lighting is from three electrics, six drop boxes with 75′ cables, and side floor pockets. The cove lighting has 32 circuits, the onstage electrics have 16 circuits each arranged in pairs stage right and left, and each dropbox has 6 separate circuits. The front of house side pockets have 4 circuits each and the stage has 24 circuits in floor pockets.
An instrument inventory can be found below and a variety of gels are kept in the house. There are two Strong Canto 1200 follow spots in a lighting balcony above the control booth. Additional instruments are available from the local college and community theatre.
The control booth houses a Soundcraft Spirit 8 40-channel mixer, a TASCAM MD-301 Mk II mini disc deck, a TASCAM CD-RW 700 CD-Rewritable recorder, a Denon DCM 360 5 disc CD player, a 2 deck TEAC cassette tape playback unit, Digi 001, PreSonus Digimax Preamp, and a Lexicon MPX 500. All sound control is portable to the house directly in front of the booth. The auditorium has 16 jacks spread throughout the facility, a stage snake and box of additional 16 jacks, and stage monitor capabilities for 5 separate mixes with 6 Yorkville and 1 Yamaha stage monitor. There is also a dedicated Mac available to run Qlab or other basic audio software. There is a Telex intercom system with 4 wireless and 7 wired headsets. The auditorium has an individually controlled sound monitor system throughout the building.
Mic Inventory
2 – Wireless Handheld Sennheiser Mics
12 – Wireless Sennheiser transmitters
12 – Wireless Sennheiser receivers
12 – Countrymen E6 Omnidirectional Earset Mics
6 – Shure SM58 Dynamic Microphones
6 – Shure SM81 Condenser Microphones
4 – Shure SM57 Condenser Microphones
Crown PZM
2 MXL 603S Pencil Condensers (omni)
MXL992 Large diaphragm condenser
MXL V76+ Tube Condenser
MXL990 Condenser
2 Apex 185 Pencil condensers (cardoid/omni)
Apex 460 Large diaphragm tube condenser (mulit-pattern)
EV RE 20
EV RE 15
AKG 2112
2AKG D190
2 AudioTechnica AT813
Sony ECM33P
Various mic stands (straight and boom)
Other Misc. mics and equipment may be available. If you have a specific request, ask us and we’ll see if we can accommodate you.
Line # Distance from plaster Current hang
1 1’ 6” ACT CURTAIN
2 2’ 6” VALENCE
3 2’ 6” 1ST ELECTRIC
4 5’ OPEN
5 6’ OPEN
6 7’ LEG
7 8’ OPEN
8 9’ LEG
9 10’ OPEN
10 11’ OPEN
11 12’ BORDER
12 13’ TRAVELER
13 14’ 6” 2ND ELECTRIC
14 15’ 6” OPEN
15 16’ 6” LEG
16 17’ 6” OPEN
17 18’ 6” OPEN
18 19’ 6” BORDER
19 20’ 6” TRAVELER
20 22’ 3RD ELECTRIC
21 23’ OPEN
22 24’ BORDER
23 25’ TRAVELER
24 26’ SKY CYC
25 26’ 6” BACK BLACK FULL CURTAIN
There is 3’11” from Line 25 to the back wall. This is the only indoor crossover space. Motor points are hung from beam clamps on the loft I beams.
The George Daily Auditorium employs an Executive Director, Operations Manager, Education Director, Development Director, and a Technical Director. The in-house technical crew is made up of local students and adults who are trained on all equipment and supervised by the professional staff. The crew is experienced and works with a variety of professional and community performances in the auditorium.
Disconnect Boxes – There are 2 – 400 amp/240volt 3-phase – 4 wire service backstage right with 50 amp SPDT breaker available, 200amp, 3 phase, isolated backstage right, 100 amp/208 3- phase non-isolated ground (no wild leg) in the black box.
Special Effects – LaMaitre G300 Hazer/Fogger, Rosco 1600 fog machine.
Communications – Telex BTR-200-II with 4 TR-200 Transceivers and PH-1 headsets Telex System with 7 PH-1 headsets.
- The George Daily Auditorium sits on public school land, so all legal restrictions as to alcohol, drugs, firearms, etc. apply to the facility.
- Fire regulations prohibit any open flame and the disabling of optic sensors in our fire/smoke alarm system. Heavy haze and/or fog will set off the alarm system.
- Motor points must be hung from our beam clamps attached to the loft I beams. We require 1 month lead time for the placement of these clamps. Beams limit stage left – stage right placement to 2 1/2′ intervals.
- House provided lighting limited to house inventory.
Local Contacts/Phone Numbers
Fire: Fire Chief Jeffery Swanson 641-673-0665
Oskaloosa Police Department: 641-673-2557
Oskaloosa Chamber of Commerce: 641-672-2591
Mahaska Health: 641-672-3100