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Her Majesty's Theatre is a 1,700-seat theatre in Melbourne's East End Theatre District, Australia. Built in 1886, it is located at 219 Exhibition Street , Melbourne . It is classified by the National Trust of Australia and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register .
His Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London. The building, designed by Charles J. Phipps , was constructed in 1897 for the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree , who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the theatre.
Beerbohm Tree had the dome fitted up with a banqueting hall and living room as his home during his brilliant management of the theatre from 1897 till his death in 1917. Her Majesty's is the fourth royal patent theatre on this site since Vanburgh's building of 1704-5; for the Royal Opera Arcade see under that name. Survey of London; Vol. XXIX.
The chief productions at the theatre were initially opera. In 1901 alone, 29 different opera productions were offered at Her Majesty's. [5] Four theatre companies produced plays at the theatre. [10] The theatre was the largest in Brisbane. J.C. Williamson's company held the lease on the theatre for over 80 years. Films were also shown there.
Her Majesty's Theatre is a theatre in Adelaide, South Australia, located on Grote Street, originally built in 1913 as the New Tivoli Theatre. Other names through its history have been the Princess Theatre (before it was first opened), the Prince of Wales Theatre , Tivoli Theatre and the Opera Theatre .
Haymarket, 2006. Haymarket is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, London.It runs from Piccadilly Circus in the north to Pall Mall at the southern end. . Located on the street are the Theatre Royal, His Majesty's Theatre, New Zealand House, a cinema complex and restaura
The theatre could seat 1,350 people, with 350 in the dress circle, 250 in the stalls and 750 in the pit. It was designed by Andrea Strombuco who had also designed Her Majesty's Theatre. It had a private refreshment room for the dress circle patrons and a smoking room. [1]
Her Majesty's Theatre Fire, Sydney, March 1902. The original Her Majesty's had its origin in the partnership of James Allison and George Rignold, [1] lessees of Adelaide's Theatre Royal and the Melbourne Opera House. [1] They secured a long lease on a site in Pitt Street, Sydney, [2] and formed a company for the purpose of founding a theatre. [3]