This facility includes 4 performance venues; the 800-seat Meng Concert Hall,
250 seat thrust Young Theatre, 150 seat black box Hallberg Theatre and the 50
seat McGarvey Family Dance Studio. The new facility includes a series of warm-up,
practice and dressing rooms, a recording studio, a musical theatre rehearsal hall,
2 state-of-art dance studios, a new costume shop, light lab and scene shop,
along with faculty offices and classrooms. The new facility has been connected to
the existing structure which also hosts 3 performance venues.
Landry & Bogan, Inc. provided full theatrical consulting services, from programming through
construction, including stage lighting systems for 5 venues, lighting and effects
equipment specification, design of the rigging for the concert hall acoustical canopy and
variable acoustics systems, general consultation on layout and design of production and
performer support spaces and lighting positions.
In the heart of the Southern California entertainment community, this project exemplifies
the best in an integrated, interdisciplinary performance facility encompassing appropriate,
state-of-the-art accommodations for music, dance and theater under one roof. Prior to
the development of this new facility, the university had difficulties, within their
existing building, in serving the sometimes opposing needs of the various performing
arts programs. However, they were very much committed to an interdisciplinary approach
to performing arts education.
Their music department competed for appropriate space with dance and theater, while
their growing and accomplished musical theater program was bursting at the seams and
lacking appropriate rehearsal space, and their extensive dance program was sometimes forced
to rehearse outside due to lack of dance rehearsal space of sufficient height for lifts!
The new building provided their music department with a dedicated performance venue, while
keeping the program in close proximity to the same production support facilities which
serve theatre and dance. The theatre department now has 2 new, versatile performance
spaces, the musical theater program gained a dedicated rehearsal space and the dance
department gained 3 appropriately sized studios. Design and audio programs gained
exceptional light lab, CADD design lab and recording lab facilities as well. So, all
disciplines have been well served and this expanding program can continue to develop
professionals for the growing entertainment market.
Awards: In conjunction with Pfeiffer Partners Architects, Landry & Bogan was awarded an Architecture Merit Award by USITT in September of 2009
Owner's Representative: Ms. Susan Hallman, Chair, Department of
Theatre & Dance, PA-128, Califonia State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
92834-6806 (714)278-3849
Architect: Mr. William Murray, Pfeiffer Partners, Inc. , 811 W.
7th Street, Suite 430, Los Angeles, CA 90017 (213) 624-2775
Construction data: 108,389 occupied square feet. Total project construction cost $48.5M.
