LOOKING UP
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Robyn Jenkin
The Theatre Royal (the third theatre of this name in Christchurch) is a familiar sight, but I wonder how many people have thought to look up at the first floor of the building opposite. (See picture.) Perhaps they ponder about the theatrical masks above the windows, but few realise that they are looking at our second Theatre Royal. The first theatre on the site was the New Music Hall, shortly to be changed to the Royal Princess Theatre, named in commemoration of the mar-
riage of Princess Alexander to Prince Albert in 1863. By 1866, the name had again changed, this time to the Theatre Royal. By 1876, Theatre Royal No. 1 had been pulled down and replaced by Theatre Royal No. 2, the largest of its kind in New Zealand with seating for 1100 people, and even boasting a connecting door between the dress circle and the Palace Hotel next door, an amenity not to be found in its successor across the road.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32542, 27 February 1971, Page 11
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