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Embassy Theatre 97 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW
Note that the Embassy Theatre was built on the Tivoli site..

The Tivoli - The coming of television in 1956 finally finished vaudeville as an all-year production, and while the Tivoli staggered on until 1966, it finally closed with the revue One Dam' Thing after Another, starring Gwen Plumb.

A year later the theatre was badly damaged by fire, and it was demolished in 1969. The developers' promises that the replacement office block would contain a theatre were not fulfilled. It does contain a Tivoli Arcade.

Newspaper advert courtesy of Paul Brennan

Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theatre (performing with gospel and blues singer Brother John Sellers) played at Sydney’s Tivoli Theatre starting in December 1964 and continuing into early 1965.

During that exact holiday season, The Wizard of Oz ran simultaneously at the Tivoli as a daytime matinee pantomime, opening on 26 December 1964.

Daytime Matinees. The Wizard of Oz opened on Boxing Day (26 December 1964) for family matinee audiences. It starred Noeleen Batley as Dorothy and Reg Livermore as the Wicked Witch of the West.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -