An art deco building is at the centre of a fight between theatre advocates and a property developer. It highlights the question of what to do with neglected heritage buildings.
: "A ticket-seller was given a part which had suddenly become vacant." She was a hit and kept the role.In the late 1940s, the building was sold, converted to a cinema and renamed the Metro .
The anti-Vietnam War, pro-peace and love musical celebrated hippie counterculture and the sexual revolution, and famously features a scene where the cast strips off. One show went down in the theatre's history. In 1976, Colin brought Hollywood great Ginger Rogers to Australia. Ginger sang, Ginger danced,sold tickets, ushered, made drinks at the bar and helped out with "crowd control", or dealing with inebriated Sydneysiders "who saw that there was a show on and tried to get in for free".
With George Miller largely at the helm, the company created some of Australia's best-known films and TV series. Mad Max sequels, Babe, Happy Feet and Bodyline were just some of the projects born out of its Kings Cross HQ.
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