As far as I know, this was the first authorised student production in the world, and only came to be, because the professional production staged in Brisbane in 1978 was so bad it closed early, leaving the rights un-used for the rest of the run. The head of Performing Arts at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, in Toowoomba was David Addenbrooke who had been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in England in the early 70s and was able to contact Richard O'Brien and ask if there was a possibility of taking over the failed run and completing it in Toowoomba as an acting excercise for the students studying drama. O'Brien agreed to the proposal, the show went ahead and was a raging success.
