Comedy Theatre, Melbourne

Comedy Theatre
Website
J C Williamson Comedy Theatre^[1]

Address	240 Exhibition Street, Melbourne Melbourne Australia
Coordinates	37°48′37″S 144°58′13″E / 37.81028°S 144.97028°E / -37.81028; 144.97028Coordinates: 37°48′37″S 144°58′13″E / 37.81028°S 144.97028°E / -37.81028; 144.97028
Owner	Marriner Group
Capacity	997
Opened	28 April 1928^[1]^[2]
www.marrinergroup.com.au

The Comedy Theatre is a 997-seat theatre in Melbourne's East End Theatre District. It was built in 1928, and was built 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 is a part of the Marriner Group.

Erected on the site of one of Melbournes earliest play-houses the old "Iron Pot," (officially the "Coppin's Olympic Theatre") a theatre originally built 1855 and abandoned in 1894.^[3] It was a prefabricated iron theatre purchased in Manchester, England by George Selth Coppin.^[1]^[4]^[5]

Gallery

Fresco
Fresco detail
Fresco detail
Windows
Theatre in December 2012

References

1 2 3 "Comedy Theatre Opening.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 28 April 1928. p. 26. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
↑ "NEW MELBOURNE THEATRE.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 27 April 1928. p. 11. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
↑ "GOPPIN'S OLYMPIC THEATRE.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 27 July 1855. p. 4. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
↑ George Coppin 1819-1906, Live Performance Australia
↑ "MELBOURNE'S OLDEST THEATRES.". The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954). Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 21 January 1930. p. 2. Retrieved 4 December 2012.

External links

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Official website
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Victorian Heritage Database

Theatres in the Melbourne City Centre

Note: this includes theatres in the Melbourne City Centre and its fringe areas, not the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area

Athenaeum Theatre ACCA (Chunky Move Studio) Arts Centre (Fairfax Studio, Hamer Hall, Playhouse, State Theatre) Comedy Theatre Forum Theatre Her Majesty's Theatre La Mama Theatre Malthouse Theatre Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne Town Hall National Theatre Palace Theatre Palais Theatre Princess Theatre Regent Theatre RMIT Capitol Theatre Sidney Myer Music Bowl Southbank Theatre

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