Comedy Theatre, Melbourne

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Comedy Theatre
J C Williamson Comedy Theatre[1]
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Address 240 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
Melbourne
Australia
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Owner Marriner Group
Capacity 997
Opened 28 April 1928[1][2]
Website
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

  • ComedyTheatreMelbournefresco1.JPG

    Fresco

  • ComedyTheatreMelbournefresco2.JPG

    Fresco detail

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    Fresco detail

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    Windows

  • Comedy Theatre in December 2012.jpg

    Theatre in December 2012

References

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  4. ↑ George Coppin 1819-1906, Live Performance Australia
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External links

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