Regent Theatre 191 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 - Re-opening with new square proscenium.

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Regent Theatre 191 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 - Re-opening 1947 with new square proscenium.

The Regent Theatre in Collins street, Melbourne was originally designed in the late 1920s by Cedric Ballantyne.

*Catastrophic fire

A major rebuild was required in 1945-7 after a catastrophic fire gutted the building. Both Gordon Murphy and Reg Appleford supervised this, a difficult task in a time of shortage of materials and skilled labour, because of the War. It re-opened in December 1947 and operated as a single screen cinema (together with the Plaza downstairs it catered for 3300 patrons) for the next 23 years - Contributed by Greg Lynch -