Capri Theatre

The Capri Theatre is a heritage-listed cinema in Goodwood, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, built in the Art Deco style in 1941.

The building housing the Goodwood Wondergraph, which opened on 3 November 1911,[1] still stands two doors down from the present Capri,[2][3] used as offices and a warehouse.

It was again renamed as the Cinema Capri on 16 November 1967,[2][13] when Greater Union took out most of the Art Deco interior decorative features and reduced the seating capacity to 851.

[18] Many of the interior features have been retained and restored since then,[12] with an appeal launched by the National Trust of Australia to repaint the exterior for the theatre's 75th anniversary in 2016.

[20][18][2] The original organ was built in the United States in 1923, and extra pipes had been added to it from around the country and overseas, during its lifetime in theatres in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.

However, for climatic and other reasons, he never got it to work properly, and in 1974 it was moved (this time in a truck) to Adelaide by TOSA, not long before Cyclone Tracy devastated the house it had been kept in.

[21][22] The organ to some years to be reassembled, and it was only on Easter Saturday in 1983, that the opening celebration took place, which included international theatre organists who flew in especially for the event.

[27][18] The Wurlitzer is played before sessions on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evenings,[27] and is also used for regular organ concerts featuring local and international organists.

Star Theatre, Goodwood, interior, 1941