Brisbane Entertainment Centre

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Brisbane Entertainment Centre is located in Boondall, a Brisbane City suburb in Queensland, Australia.

The centre's large audience capacity is used for the staging of concerts and musical theatre shows, including "Grease", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular" and others. Brisbane Entertainment Centre has also staged ice-skating shows, including "Disney on Ice".

The Brisbane Entertainment Centre was formerly the home of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) basketball team, the Brisbane Bullets, and was formerly the filming venue for the Australian series of Gladiators between 1995 and 1997, before the venue to the 2008 series was switched to the Dome in Sydney

The centre has 11,000 tiered seats and a maximum concert capacity of 13,500. The largest basketball crowd was 13,221 in game two of the 1990 NBL Grand Final series between the home team and Perth Wildcats.

The arena has an assortment of seating plans which facilitate the comfort of its users, subject to performance. Specific seating plans usually are allocated depending on the performance and the size of its audience. The general seating arrangements at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre are end stage mode, "in the round", and intimate mode which only uses half of the arena.

The centre also has a sporting complex and many other smaller function rooms which are available to hire for wedding receptions, business functions and the like.

[edit] Getting to the centre

Located in Boondall, users can catch a QR Citytrain to Boondall railway station, on the Shorncliffe railway line, or travel by taxi. There are 4,000 car parking stops and buses do not run to the centre. The Brisbane Entertainment Centre is located just off the Gateway Motorway.