Owner Marriner Group Opened 28 April 1928 | Capacity 997 Phone +61 3 9299 4950 | |
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Address 240 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia Similar Her Majesty's Theatre, Regent Theatre - Melbourne, Princess Theatre - Melbourne, Melbourne Athenaeum, Forum Theatre | ||
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. It was a prefabricated iron theatre purchased in Manchester, England by George Selth Coppin.
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