Starlight Theatre
Kansas City, Missouri


Seat Count: 7,900
Opening: June 2000
Architect: HNTB Architects
A/V Installation: Harvest Productions
AD Scope: Audio Systems,
Stagehouse Acoustics

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The Starlight Theatre was founded in 1950. It is Kansas City's largest and oldest performing arts organization and is the second largest theatre of its kind in the United States. In 1999, Starlight Theatre began plans to construct a new 12,000 square foot main stagehouse within the existing footprint in order to provide modern rigging capabilities for theatrical productions. This construction was designed to retain certain architectural elements of the current staging area, while increasing the height in order to provide fly and grid space.

AD provided acoustics recommendations and design audio systems that would provide coverage to the seating area while minimizing spill of sound outside of the outdoor theatre.

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At 10:44 on opening-night the audience at "Miss Saigon" burst into applause for one of the technical marvels of modern theatrical pageantry: the fabled helicopter. Without doubt, watching the chopper descend from Starlight Theatre's cavernous new fly space, with a deafening prop wash thundering through the sound system, was a sight to behold. The moment of pure spectacle says all that needs to be said about Starlight's $10 million stage upgrade. The new facility's maiden voyage was flawless. By Robert Trussell - The Kansas City Star - 06/30/00