Venue: Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
Town: South Australia, AU

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. It re-opened in June 2020 after a major refurbishment. Designed by Adelaide-born architects David Williams and Charles Thomas Good, the foundation stone for the Princess Theatre was laid on 14 October 1912. However, after it was built in 1913, it opened as the New Tivoli Theatre, part of national Tivoli vaudeville circuit, and is the only original Tivoli still standing. The opening ceremony was presided over by Mayor John Lavington Bonython on 5 September 1913. Its first music director was Will Quintrell, before he moved to the Tivoli, Melbourne. The theatre was renamed the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1920, and back to the Tivoli Theatre in 1930. In 1954 it was acquired by J. C. Williamson's, but it was very dilapidated by the end of the Adelaide Festival season in March/April 1962, so the owners undertook a complete refurbishment of the interiors, costing £300,000. The dress circle was removed in order to create a feeling of greater intimacy, and seating capacity reduced to approximately 1200. The orchestra pit was enlarged, and panels built over it to improve acoustics, and air conditioning was installed. Heritage features were stripped, replaced by plastic and anodised aluminium décor. The external walls were painted grey. It reopened on 9 November 1962 by premier Sir Thomas Playford as Her Majesty's Theatre, with a performance by J. C. Williamson Theatres themselves of The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan. It then staged ballets, opera and plays. After suffering financially from the drop in attendances after the introduction of television in Australia television in 1956, it was saved by the Dunstan government in 1976 when it was purchased by the state government for th