Theatre Royal, Brisbane

The first venue on the same site was Mason's Concert [or Music] Hall (1865), which had been designed by William (Billy) Coote and constructed by John Bourne.

From 1949 to 1959, comedian George Wallace Jnr presented weekly variety shows at the Theatre Royal.

[6] Early shows featured an all male, ex-army revue company called the Kangaroos.

The female performers began to be called the “Royal Showgirls” and were dressed in bikinis, mini-skirts and shorts.

It was operated as a nightclub, Swizzles[7] in the 1980s before being demolished in 1987 to make way for the Myer Centre complex development in 1987.

The horse shoe shape of the dress circle obscured side views of the stage.