Kalamazoo -
Here's a random one for a lazy Sunday morning:
Roughly 215 seats were removed from the main orchestra seating level to create two, permanent center aisles at WMU's Miller Auditorium. Before these aisles were carved out, the auditorium boasted 3,419 seats. With the reduced capacity, it will still have over 3,000 seats (most of the traveling Broadway shows reportedly top out at 2,000 ticket sales). This means Miller will still be the largest theatre in the vicinity by a good margin, even with the seating reduction. I was never a big fan of the continental seating - it was the preferred configuration on Broadway, when Miller was built, but it is less common nowadays. So now we'll get the best of both worlds: more walking aisles for easier seat access, while retaining the deeper leg room in front of each seat (as a product of the former continental seating aisle clearance requirements) -
Source:
Aya Miller | MLive