Casa del Prado Theatre in downtown San Diego's Balboa Park seats 640 inside a 50,000-square-foot reconstruction of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition's Varied Industries Building, completed and dedicated in 1971. The auditorium anchors the complex's north building, where resident performing-arts tenants including San Diego Civic Youth Ballet and the San Diego Youth Symphony rehearse and stage recitals in adjoining studios. Architects Richard George Wheeler and Samuel Wood Hamill replicated Bertram Goodhue's original Spanish Colonial Revival facades—hand-set tile work, arched doorways, and carved ornamental detailing—using $3.5 million in voter-approved bond funds from 1968's Proposition M. An exposed arcaded court separates the theater from a south exhibition hall that hosts botanical shows and rentable event space beneath a two-story patio arcade. Six main-stage youth musicals per season fill the proscenium with full-cast productions requiring orchestra-pit setups and fly-system rigging, building performance resumes that prepare young actors for the Equity-level audition process at The Old Globe's three-theater complex a short walk west along El Prado. The most complex productions coordinate automated lighting sequences, live orchestral accompaniment, and multi-set scenic transitions within a historic envelope whose 1977 National Historic Landmark District listing requires every structural modification to clear preservation review.