Everything about The Tivoli Circuit totally explained
The
Tivoli Circuit was a successful and popular Australian entertainment circuit which flourished from 1893 and the 1950s. The circuit suffered a catastrophic decline in popularity after the introduction of
television in Australia in 1956, and the last Tivoli show was staged in 1966.
History
The circuit was established by English
music hall comedian
Harry Rickards in 1893, following the success of his "New Tivoli Minstrel and Grand Specialty Company" who performed at the old Opera House in Sydney in 1892. By 1909 Rickards had 532 people on the payroll.
The Circuit was taken over after Rickards' death in 1911 by a succession of managements The first was
Hugh D. Mclntosh (in 1912), who purchased the circuit for £100,000. After success with large-scale stage productions such as Chu Chin Chow he sold the Tivoli circuit to
Harry G. Musgrove in 1921. It was subsequently acquired by
J.C. Williamson's Tivoli Vaudeville Pty Ltd in 1924, then by
Mike Connors and
Queenie Paul (in the
Great Depression years), Musgrove Theatres again in 1934 under Frank Neil and Wallace Parnell and, from 1944, David N. Martin, Managing Director of Tivoli Circuit of Australia.
The Tivoli was the major outlet for
variety theatre and
vaudeville in Australia for over 70 years. The circuit grew to include Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth by the turn of the century, promoting both local and international musical, variety and comedy acts. It featured a broad spectrum of
vaudeville acts including dancers, acrobats, comedians and ventriloquists and the Tivoli was famous for its scantily-clad
chorus girls, who were colloquially known as "
Tivoli tappers".
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