Yucca Theatre

Built in 1929 and designated a Texas State Historical Landmark, the Yucca Theatre in Midland, Texas, is home to the Midland Community Theatre and its world-renowned Summer Mummers, a locally-produced and written show that harks back to the golden age of Vaudeville. The Yucca’s brand-new Electro-Voice XLCi 127DVX sound system is ensuring this unique production sounds better than ever for its 60th anniversary in 2008. The EV system was designed by FitzCo Sound, Inc. and installed by Midland Community Theatre personnel (supervised by Technical Director/Sound & Lighting Designer Eddie Taylor).
Summer Mummers runs for three months each summer and attracts audiences from around the world. Boisterous crowds are the norm, with popcorn-throwing encouraged; for that reason, a relatively powerful sound system was necessary to ensure intelligibility - especially for the snappy dialog that drives the show - over the noise of the audience. It was also essential that the audio equipment be as unobtrusive as possible with regard to the theatre’s historic Assyrian-style interior. System designer Milt Hathaway of FitzCo Sound described the Electro-Voice solution:
“The system was designed for greatest gain-before-feedback, while staying within the budget of a community theatre. It has a central array of seven XLCi 127DVX boxes, with a delay ring of seven ZX1i compact loudspeakers to cover the under-balcony area. Power is provided by six P3000RL remote control amplifiers running IRIS-Net control and supervision software. And I can’t say enough about how easily the ZX1i cabinets installed and how great they sound.”    

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