30 May 2019 (and Harry Potter is still going in 2021):

So much #gilding – the refreshed #PrincessTheatre looks marvellous. Just realised that the great little copper #dragon light fittings on the canopy arnt some restored detail, but added as a hint to the #HarryPotter stuff going on inside – doh ! Built 1886, #WilliamPittArchitect, refurb by @LovellChen.

The ground floor lobby of the #PrincessTheatre isn’t original 1886, it was created in 1922, when the auditorium was also rebuilt, all designed by #HenryEliWhite, the premier theatre specialist of the 1915-1930 period in Australasia. Before this, there were shops and separate entrances for the different classes, the plebs didn’t get a foyer. It’s in the Adam style, ie Pompeii revival, complete with plaster panels of classical figures. The floor is a bit wonky. And the #marble on the stairs (which are 1886) is painted on, very theatrical !

14 December 2015:

One of the beautiful stained glass windows in the Princess Theatre ‘wintergarden’. Grand name for what was really just filling in external balcony spaces in 1901, but gave the upper foyer more room to be a bit less of a ‘crush lobby’. The works were by William Pitt, who had designed the theatre 15 years earlier, but possibly the window design is by a specialist company. They’re a rather bold example of #artnouveau. Mozart and Beethoven are up there too.

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