Wells Fargo Pavilion
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The Wells Fargo Pavilion is a theatre venue, located in Sacramento
California
and owned by California Musical Theatre
& Sacramento Theatre Company
.
and has a 32 feet (9.8 m) diameter. The theatre seats up to 2,200 guests with a total of 53000 square feet (4,923.9 m²). The pavilion is home for the Sacramento Music circus
, a Summer stock theatre
.
The site is built on top of the original concrete foundations from the Music Circus tent. Music Circus was a theatre form begun in Lambertville, N.J., by St. John Terrell in 1949. Established as summer stock, the new theatre venues primarily housed light operas and operettas, produced in the round, under a circus-style big top. In 2002, Terrell's open air music circus model ceased to exist as Sacramento Music Circus lowered its canvas tent for the last time, returning the following year in this state of the art complex which offers new Technology improvements such as an expanded lighting grid and a variable-level turntable stage. The original architect is R.F. McCann & Co.
Construction for the new pavilion began in the early 2000s and opened to the public in the Summer of 2003. The structure consists of hard sided walls with a soft covering, copying its silhouette from the old circus tent. The tent is a permanent structure covered with Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric without tent poles that had previously obstructed the views of the stage.
Sacramento
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California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
and owned by California Musical Theatre
California Musical Theatre
California Musical Theatre is the largest nonprofit arts organization in the state of California and the city of Sacramento's oldest professional performing arts organization...
& Sacramento Theatre Company
Sacramento Theatre Company
The Sacramento Theatre Company is a Regional Professional Theatre in the Northern California city of Sacramento.- History :The theater was originally formed as the Sacramento Civic Repertory Theatre in 1942, an ad hoc troupe formed to entertain locally stationed troops during World War II.Realizing...
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Overview
The signature feature of the H Street Theatre Project which renovated almost the entire block. The stage is a Theatre in the roundTheatre in the round
Theatre-in-the-round or arena theatre is any theatre space in which the audience surrounds the stage area...
and has a 32 feet (9.8 m) diameter. The theatre seats up to 2,200 guests with a total of 53000 square feet (4,923.9 m²). The pavilion is home for the Sacramento Music circus
Music circus
Music circus is an American theatrical form begun in Lambertville, New Jersey, by St. John Terrell in 1949. Established as summer stock, the new theatre venues primarily housed light operas and operettas, produced in the round, under a circus-style big top....
, a Summer stock theatre
Summer stock theatre
Summer stock theatre is any theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer within the United States. The name combines both the seasonal time of year with the tradition of staging shows by a resident company, reusing stock scenery and costumes...
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History
Construction for the new pavilion began in the early 2000s and opened to the public in the Summer of 2003. The structure consists of hard sided walls with a soft covering, copying its silhouette from the old circus tent. The tent is a permanent structure covered with Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric without tent poles that had previously obstructed the views of the stage.