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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "African Prince"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "African Prince")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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2442 results for: Keyword - African Prince
We found 878 matches on Event Comments, 705 matches on Performance Comments, 513 matches on Performance Title, 418 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

501
01 August 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Prince Volscius-Davies; Gentleman Usher-Weston; Tom Thimble-Quin; Thunder-Johnson; Smith-Lewis; Prettyman-Death; The Sun-Blakey; Amaryllis-Mrs Osborne; Chloris-Miss Platt; two Kings of Brentford-Hayes, Jackson; Parthenope, Moon-Mrs Daly; Bayes-Wilkinson (with a variety of imitations); Johnson-Kennedy; with an additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's new rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: Prince Volscius Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A Serious Dance-Miss Street (scholar to Ghendi); V: The Venetian Gardeners-Master Rogier, Miss Street

502
07 January 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

503
24 September 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosd

504
01 January 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

505
05 January 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

506
12 January 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

507
29 January 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: (Prince of Wales present.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Naxus

508
09 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Prince of Orange expected this evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

509
16 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince and Princess of Orange present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

510
19 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Prince and Princess of Orange expected to attend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

511
02 November 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 2 Nov.: No place is full but the Opera; and Farinelli is so universally liked, that the crowds there are immense. By way of public spectacles this winter, there are no less than two Italian Operas, one French play house, and three English ones. Heidegger has computed the expense of these shows, and proves in black & white that the undertakers must receive seventy-six thousand odd hundred pounds to bear their charges, before they begin to become gainers. Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

512
20 December 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

513
26 January 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.] As 12 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

514
27 January 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 30 Jan.: The Opera oF Mithridates was so full on Tuesday Night, that there were above 440 Ladies and Gentlemen in the Pit and Boxes, besides the Subscribers. Above 50 People were oblig'd to go away for want of Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

515
01 May 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince and Princess of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus

516
18 May 1736 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Prince and Princess of Wales expected to attend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

517
24 July 1736 @ Richmond

Event Comment: [Prince and Princess of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

518
31 July 1736 @ Richmond

Event Comment: [Prince and Princess of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

519
09 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir Of Morocco With The Death Of gayland The african Usurper

Song:

Dance:

520
10 March 1746 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Brett, the surprising voice of the famous African who sings several songs, with Mock Voices, particularly in Imitation of a young Child.; Juggling-Yates

521
28 June 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Dance: End of Act I II Riposo del Campo, as17830603 with a Pas Seul, as17830531; End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830614 End of Act III The famous new ballet The Four Nations, performed but twice at the Pantheon [on 17 and 24 June, when it was announced as composed by Lepicq, "representing four different Nations: Mme Simonet the French, Slingsby and Mlle Theodore the English, Zuchelli and Sga Crespi the African, Lepicq and Mme Rossi the Cosaque-Polonois, with several Pas de Deux, each of them suited to the National Characters"]

522
21 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London or The Happy African

Dance: I: a Fair Scene-; Statute Dance-; End: As17920410

Song: In afterpiece: a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland If you travel the wide world all over (Morning Herald, 23 Apr.)-Johnstone in Character

523
23 April 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London or The Happy African

Entertainment: Monologue An Occasional Address-a Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentifield])

524
11 June 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Instrumental Music, with trumpets, kettle drums, hautboys, flutes-

Song: Mrs del'Epine[, all composed] by that Great and much esteem'd Master, Jacomo Greber

Dance: Wedding Dance, Blouzabella-Labbe, Mrs Elford; Medley Dance-Prince, Prince's daughter; a dance-Godwin, Mrs Clark

525
25 January 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Song: That celebrated Dialogue-Boman, Pack, A Drunken Officer and a Town Miss, originally performed in The Mad Lover; A Country Dialogue-Mrs Willis, Short; A new Trumpet Song composed by Eccles-Davis

Dance: The last new Entry-Firbank, Firbank's Scholar; Blowsabella-Prince, Mrs Clark; Comic dances-Prince, others; A Right Irish Trot-a child of five years