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Crowd at opening of 'Sunny', Empire Theatre 1927

Crowd at opening of 'Sunny', Empire Theatre 1927

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Hood, Sam

State Library of New South Wales

Her Majesty's Theatre

There have been three Her Majesty's Theatres in Sydney, spanning nearly a century of the city's theatrical history.

Theatre

Musicals

Public building

Empire theatre

Theatre on an awkward diagonal site in Haymarket which showed live theatre for only two years before converting to a cinema. In 1948 demand saw it reopen for variety and musical shows which continued until it was destroyed by fire in 1970. The map shows the former site......

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