The Assembly Theatre at The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis, which first opened in February of 1928, has hosted lectures and shows from an incredibly broad range of speakers and performers, including everyone from Helen Keller, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Garrison Keillor to Henry Rollins, Amanda Palmer, and The Jayhawks. The nonprofit organization’s six-story mansion overlooks Loring Park has a 630-seat venue. While it has had many historic performances, it also had an aging sound system which was brought new life by DiGiCo.
For the past two years, Rip Nordhougen, technical director for The Woman’s Club, has been working with the goal of “bringing back to life a wonderful theater that was originally used for vaudeville,” he said. “The Assembly has basically been unused for several years, so finding a new console to replace our old one installed in 2008 was definitely the first step. We needed a reliable, easy-to-use desk that would suit us well for the next 10 years or more. With a wide variety of mix engineers planning to come through this space, it was important to have a console with an intuitive workflow to best help them get up-and-running very quickly.”
