BACKGROUND INFORMATION
These pages consist of background information regarding Theatre in Australia, with an emphasis on the Tivoli theatres in Melbourne and Sydney. In most cases the pages are direct lifts from my own work, so please acknowledge my work or the site and my sources, if you decide to use this information for publication or other research purposes.
Feel free to read it for your own enjoyment too.
My web design skills are not the greatest, so with this much text, it may be difficult to read the information or there could be some other bugs at play.
I would like to thank Mr John Flower who recently gave me some information on the Sydney Tivoli and Harry Rickards. Thanks!
I no longer update this part of the site. Please check out my new site. It contains all the information here with additional articles..
HAT- The History of Australian Theatre
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-Leann
Tivoli theatre Sydney Tivoli Theatre Melbourne
Harry Clay and Clay's Theatre chain
A Short history of Australian Theatre to 1910
Davenport Brothers in Melbourne, 1876