The John R. Emens College-Community Auditorium, or Emens Auditorium as it is known on campus, is an auditorium on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, United States.
The facility is used to host Broadway shows, plays, and university events, as well as regional events for eastern Indiana.
Emens Auditorium has a seating capacity of 3,581. The Auditorium was opened on March 14, 1964, when Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians performed.
Attached to the rear of the facility is a smaller theater used for performing arts shows.
Use the seating chart to help you determine the section where you would like tickets for Emens Auditorium events. If pit seats are available, those would be located in front of the main floor seats.
The cost to build (back in 1964) was in building Emens auditorium was $2.975 million.
The architect of the building was Walter Scholer.
The contractor was Hagerman Construction Co., Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The stage features include a 144 feet wide by 45 feet deep: stage floor to gridiron is 78 feet.
The proscenium arch is 82 feet wide. A sixteen-ton fireproof curtain divides the stage from the house.
Its opening date or “Sneak Previews” for the public was on March 14 and 15, 1964, dedication, October 25, 1964.
The official name of the venue is John R. Emens College-Community Auditorium.
To build Emens Auditorium there was a huge fund raising of $1.5 million.
So the charity started in 1960 they succeeded this fundraising in January 25, 1964 and exceeded the $1.5 Million amount by $10,532.
The auditorium was named by the current president of the school John R. Emens.
There are plaques of remembrance on pillars and walls in the courtyard entrance of Emens Auditorium of major donors to the building fundraising.
After five years the auditorium was named for John Emens, the university honored his wife by naming the art-filled lounge on the auditorium’s second floor the Aline Brainerd Lounge.
The campus adds more than $2 million to the local economy each summer and presents concerts to the public.
"As fine a hall as the Salzburg Festspiel Haus and better than the San Francisco Opera House . . ." Spoken by Heinrich Keilholz, an acoustical engineer from Hamburg, Germany, these words are in praise of John R. Emens College-Community Auditorium.
Ball State University's sixth president, John R. Emens (1945-1968), had a dream. He envisioned a "campus of the future" complete with an auditorium "large enough to house most college functions as well as major symphonies, Broadway productions, ballets, and other forms of entertainment for Muncie and east central Indiana audiences."
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