Prince of Wales Theatre, Sydney

It was designed to accommodate around 3,000 patrons: 1500 in the pit (stalls), 500 in the dress circle; gallery 500 and upper boxes 750.

[a] The first lessee was J. Gordon Griffiths, and the first production was Knowles' The Hunchback, starring Mr and Mrs Waller.

It started at Holmes's bakery adjoining; three people died as a result of a wall of the burning theatre collapsing.

David Crabb lost money as lessee; Edgar Ray followed in 1867, and despite spending a fortune on improvements and a high-class production of Leman Rede's Our Village,[4] theatre-goers stayed away[5] and he too was driven to insolvency.

[9] It was rebuilt for Samuel Lazar as the Theatre Royal, which opened on 11 December 1875 with H. J. Byron's Daisy Farm, Adelaide Bowring and W. J. Holloway in the leading roles.