Williams Auditorium

The Williams Auditorium is a theater and classroom complex first built in 1962 on the campus of Ferris State in Big Rapids, MI. It has some minor relevance to Dozerfleet history.

Dozerfleet history
The Dozerfleet founder took two different classes in this building: Acting and Tech Theater.

Fall 2006
The most important project in acting class was an impersonation of John Barrymore as depicted in I Hate Hamlet - which somehow turned into a Jack Sparrow impersonation. He also studied Night of the Iguana. Other works reviewed included The Diary of Adam and Eve and Doctor Death. Some class members also performed in a play of Workin'  onstage that year.

Fall 2009
In tech theater, he got to make a stage set and work on set pieces for a Ferris Theater production of Measure for Measure, performed on November 12th, 13th, and 14th of 2009. Another project worked on was in making a stage set plan for a production of Inherit the Wind, which can be read about on the Document Library.

A flyer calling for actors for Mountain of Cabal, which was later renamed Blood Over Water, was also posted in a hallway leading to one of the classrooms behind the stage theater. However, none of the theater students responded, given that many of them were Clown World natives that felt that the Ferris TV students and their projects were "beneath" them.

Further viewing

 * Williams Auditorium on Google Maps