28 March 1738

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Theatre: King's Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1737-1738
Volume: 3
Comments: Benefit Handel. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. London Evening Post, 30 March: Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales were present; there was the greatest and most polite Audience ever seen there, and it's thought Mr Handel cou'd not get less that Night than 15001. Egmont, Diary, II, 474: In the evening I went to Hendel's Oratorio, where I counted near 1,300 persons besides the gallery and upper gallery. I suppose he got this night 1,000 1. [For further details, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 455.

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    *pv?king's An Oratorio. *mv?king's [WWith a% Concert on the Organ-. *cv?king's Benefit $Handel=. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. <i>London Evening Post</i>, 30 March: Their Royal Highnesses the $Prince and Princess of Wales= were present; there was the greatest and most polite Audience ever seen there, and it's thought Mr Handel cou'd not get less that Night than 15001. <i>Egmont, Diary</i>, II, 474: In the evening I went to Hendel's <i>Oratorio</i>, where I counted near 1,300 persons besides the gallery and upper gallery. I suppose he got this night 1,000 1. [For further details, see <i>Deutsch, Handel</i>, p. 455.]

  • Cleaned Data

    *p1738 03 28 king's An Oratorio.*m1738 03 28 king's With a Concert on the Organ-.*c1738 03 28 king's Benefit $Handel=. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. <i>London Evening Post</i>, 30 March: Their Royal Highnesses the $Prince and Princess of Wales= were present; there was the greatest and most polite Audience ever seen there, and it's thought Mr Handel cou'd not get less that Night than 15001. <i>Egmont, Diary</i>, II, 474: In the evening I went to Hendel's <i>Oratorio</i>, where I counted near 1,300 persons besides the gallery and upper gallery. I suppose he got this night 1,000 1. [For further details, see <i>Deutsch, Handel</i>, p. 455.]

  • Parsed Data

    Event: 19098 | 17380328 | king's | Benefit $Handel=. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. <i>London Evening Post</i>, 30 March: Their Royal Highnesses the $Prince and Princess of Wales= were present; there was the greatest and most polite Audience ever seen there, and it's thought Mr Handel cou'd not get less that Night than 15001. <i>Egmont, Diary</i>, II, 474: In the evening I went to Hendel's <i>Oratorio</i>, where I counted near 1,300 persons besides the gallery and upper gallery. I suppose he got this night 1,000 1. [For further details, see <i>Deutsch, Handel</i>, p. 455.
    Performance: 35828 | 19098 | p | An Oratorio
    Performance: 35829 | 19098 | m | With a Concert on the Organ-

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Title: An Oratorio
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Comment: With a Concert on the Organ-

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