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Address | 240
Exhibition Street Melbourne Australia |
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Coordinates | 37°48′37″S 144°58′13″E / 37.81028°S 144.97028°E |
Owner | Marriner Group |
Capacity | 1003 |
Opened | 28 April 1928 [1] [2] |
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The Comedy Theatre is a 1003-seat theatre in Melbourne's East End Theatre District. It was built in 1928, and was designed in the Spanish style, with a Florentine-style exterior and wrought-iron balconies. It is located at 240 Exhibition Street, and diagonally opposite Her Majesty's Theatre.
It typically hosts commercial seasons of plays and smaller-scale musicals, as well as comedy and other entertainment events.
The site at the corner of Lonsdale and Stephen streets was from June 1842 to October 1854 an entertainment venue, " Rowe's American Circus", where George Benjamin William Lewis gained his foothold in Australia. In December 1854 it was licensed as the "Royal Victoria Theatre", [3] then demolished, to be replaced by a prefabricated iron building imported from Manchester, England for George Coppin. Tentatively named "New Theatre", [4] it was christened on 11 June 1855 as "Coppin's Olympic Theatre", [5] and held its first theatrical performance on 30 July. [6] One of Melbourne's earliest play-houses, it was the venue of some of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke's greatest triumphs, but the "Iron Pot", as it came to be known, [7] was hot in summer and cold in winter [8] and was soon displaced by architecturally superior theatres, and was abandoned in 1894.
Opened on 28 April 1928, [1] the Comedy Theatre was built and operated for fifty years by J. C. Williamson's. Paul Dainty purchased the theatre in 1978 for $800,000. [9] Since 1996 the theatre has been owned and operated by Marriner Group.
Previous notable productions and performers at the Comedy Theatre include: [10]
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Address | 240
Exhibition Street Melbourne Australia |
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Coordinates | 37°48′37″S 144°58′13″E / 37.81028°S 144.97028°E |
Owner | Marriner Group |
Capacity | 1003 |
Opened | 28 April 1928 [1] [2] |
Website | |
www |
The Comedy Theatre is a 1003-seat theatre in Melbourne's East End Theatre District. It was built in 1928, and was designed in the Spanish style, with a Florentine-style exterior and wrought-iron balconies. It is located at 240 Exhibition Street, and diagonally opposite Her Majesty's Theatre.
It typically hosts commercial seasons of plays and smaller-scale musicals, as well as comedy and other entertainment events.
The site at the corner of Lonsdale and Stephen streets was from June 1842 to October 1854 an entertainment venue, " Rowe's American Circus", where George Benjamin William Lewis gained his foothold in Australia. In December 1854 it was licensed as the "Royal Victoria Theatre", [3] then demolished, to be replaced by a prefabricated iron building imported from Manchester, England for George Coppin. Tentatively named "New Theatre", [4] it was christened on 11 June 1855 as "Coppin's Olympic Theatre", [5] and held its first theatrical performance on 30 July. [6] One of Melbourne's earliest play-houses, it was the venue of some of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke's greatest triumphs, but the "Iron Pot", as it came to be known, [7] was hot in summer and cold in winter [8] and was soon displaced by architecturally superior theatres, and was abandoned in 1894.
Opened on 28 April 1928, [1] the Comedy Theatre was built and operated for fifty years by J. C. Williamson's. Paul Dainty purchased the theatre in 1978 for $800,000. [9] Since 1996 the theatre has been owned and operated by Marriner Group.
Previous notable productions and performers at the Comedy Theatre include: [10]