The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is a downtown St. Paul, Minnesota venue whose Music Theater hosts Broadway productions, opera, concerts, dance, comedy, educational programming, and community events. The Music Theater project follows the venue’s 2024 installation of Meyer Sound LINA loudspeakers in the 1,100-seat Concert Hall.
The new Music Theater system is built around 48 Meyer Sound LEOPARD line array elements deployed as left, center, and right arrays. Six flown 2100-LFC low-frequency control elements provide bass support, while six 700-HP subwoofers can be used as three-per-side cardioid deck arrays for productions needing additional low-frequency effect. ULTRA-X40 in fills, ULTRA-X22 box fills, UPM-1P front fills, and UPM-1P underbalcony fills extend coverage, with Galileo GALAXY 816 Network Platforms handling processing and control.
The practical issue documented in the source is seat-to-seat consistency in a 1,900-seat theater and a house system that visiting productions can adopt. With an LCR array layout, several fill types, and deployable deck subwoofers, the Ordway has expanded what its installed Meyer Sound system can cover across a broad performance schedule.