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Tivoli Theatre and Hotel Sydney 12 August 1963

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Tivoli Theatre and Hotel Sydney 12 August 1963

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New Tivoli Theatre

The last theatre built in Sydney before World War I, called the Adelphi until 1916 and Grand Opera House until 1932, the 'Tiv' as it became known was a venue for melodrama, vaudeville, pantomime and more, until the 1960s.

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Theatre at the Haymarket end of Castlereagh Street which was one of Sydney's longest lived vaudeville venues, until it closed in 1966. One newspaper reported its construction was to cost 40,000 pounds and its stage was to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere at 85 feet by 100 feet. It was named in honour of Harry Rickard's Tivoli Theatre.