Memphis Cannon Center – Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
Memphis Cook Convention Center
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
255 North Main Street
Memphis, TN 38103-0016
Phone: 800-726-0915
FAX: 901-576-1212
http://www.thecannoncenter.com
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts now open
The multi-purpose, 2,100 seat Memphis Cannon Center facility hosts general sessions for conventions in the Memphis Cook Convention Center plus other events including ballet, opera, pop and jazz concerts, touring productions and children's theater. The Cannon Center is also the home of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
• 2,100 seats
• Cannon Center is connected to 1,000 covered parking spaces and within walking distance of 1,400 additional spaces
• Connected to over 300,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space, including a 28,000 square foot ballroom
• Downtown Center is located in the heart of a major metropolitan area with a population of over 1,000,000
• Seating and balcony are configured in a classic horseshoe plan
• Unobstructed views of the entire stage area from the orchestra, mezzanine, balcony and side boxes
• 2 loading bays - on Front Street
• 14 dressing rooms (four 1-2 persons; two musician changing rooms; four 4-6 person, four 10 person) - Six on the stage level and eight on the mezzanine level.
• 2 orchestra pits; each lift has four positions: stage level, audience seating level, orchestra pit level and chair wagon storage level. Upstage lift is approximately 15' deep a the center; downstage lift is approximately 10' deep.
• Lift speed: 5 feet/minute; lifting capacity: 50 lb/square foot, plus dead load of lift. Sustaining capacity: equal to stage floor.
ENTRY LEVEL
MEZZANINE
PARTERRE
