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2172 results for: Keyword - Alexander the Great
We found 1491 matches on Event Comments, 565 matches on Performance Title, 313 matches on Performance Comments, 35 matches on Author, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

401
22 February 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cynick; Or, The Force Of Virtue

Performance Comment: Alexander-W. Giffard; Apelles-Giffard; Diogenes-Huddy; Clytus-Rosco; Hephestion-Havard; Melippus-Bullock; Parmenio-Beaumont; Manes-Morgan; Granicus-Collet; Psyllus-Bardin; Citizens-W. Williams, Pearce; Campaspe-Mrs Giffard; Lais-Miss Smith.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: W. Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach [Opera]

402
13 October 1761 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new serious Opera...The Music by several celebrated Composers. Pit and Boxes together half a Guinea, Gallery 5s. To begin 6:30 p.m. No Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor into the Orchestra. Vivat Rex et Regina. [Repeated in the bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Nell Indie

Performance Comment: Alexander-Giovanni Battista Zonca; Porus-Filippo Elisi; Cleofida-Signora Colomba Mattei; Frisena-Signora Angiola Sartori; Gandartes-Signora Rosa Curioni (Musician to H. S. H. the Duke Clemens of Bavaria); Timagenes-Signora Teresa Eberardi; Director of the Dances-Gallini; Principal Dancers-Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Binetti, Signora Binetti.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Giovanni Battista Zonca
Role: Director of the Dances Actor: Gallini

403
13 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: great Nreat Noise--before the Entertainm[en]t began Mr Garrick went on & said--Gent: as we find the new Scene, tho' it pleases some, offends others & as we wou'd please all, we shall omit it after this Night--but I hope when the other House is merry with us, we may be merry with them--the Song was printed & thrown down from ye Slips--great Noise--great applause--some blows in the pit--some Gents insisted upon its being given out again, wch Mr Lacy did--the Inspector very Impudent to-day (14th) about Woodward for saying I thank you to Fitzpatrick who threw an Apple at him from ye Stage Box on Fryday last--the fool against us to-day (Cross). [Cross omits receipts this night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: In II will be introduc'd a Masquerade Dance Actor: Mathews, the Little Swiss
Role: to conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the Characters of the Play.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.

404
12 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: great applause to the Play (Hopkins Diary). Mainpiece: A tragedy never before acted [by Mrs Celisia]. Prologue (by Whitehead)-Reddish; Epilogue (by Garrick)-Mrs Barry. New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations (Winston MS 10). [The Gentleman's Magazine for Feb. reviewed the mainpiece in great detail, concluding: "A combat between two knights in the days of chivalry and honour, not to determine whether a person accused is innocent or guilty, but whether a person under the infamy of acknowledged guilt shall suffer, is, as the Scotch peasant says emphatically of his pupil, a phenomenon. It is, however, but justice to Mrs Barry, to say, that in performing the part allotted her in this piece, she rises like perfection out of chaos, and therefore those who have not yet seen it represented should by no means be deterred by these strictures on the composition, supposing them to be just."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Related Works
Related Work: Almida Author(s): Dorothea Celisia

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

405
24 September 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great rout. V: I Beard play'd (Rylands MS.). Receipts: #130

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beggar's Opera

406
16 February 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: (great snow [show?] for ye Agreat snow [show?] for ye Author) (Cross). Benefit for the Author (General Advertiser). There was a new comedy last Saturday, which suceeds, call'd The Foundling. I like the old Conscious Lovers better, and that not much. The story is the same, only the Bevil of the New piece is in more hurry, and consequently more natural. It is extremely well acted by Garrick and Barry, Mrs Cibber and Mrs Woffington [Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, Walpole Letters (ed Cunningham, II, 105).] Receipts: #160 (Cross); house charges #63 (Powel); cash #119 5s. 6d.; tickets #32 (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Related Works
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

407
03 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Applause to ye Farce, some little Hiss (Cross). This month was publish'd A Letter to Mr Garrick; with some remarks upon Lethe. Printed for Reeve (Gentlemans Magazine, Register of Books). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #146 14s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

408
04 February 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great applause--I believe the Author had many friends (Cross). This day at 2 o'clock will be publish'd at 6d. The Original Story from which the New Comedy of Gil Blas is taken. Printed for W. Owen, at Temple Bar. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gil Blas

409
17 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Noise when Woodward came on in Ostrich--Mr Garrick advanc'd & said--Gentlemen, if Mr Woodward's oath don't satisfie you, pray defer ye Resentm[en]t till tomorrow when it will be corroborated by some others--all Quiet (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

410
30 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great applause (Cross). Mainpiece: Acted but once these two years. Eumenes by Holland, being the second time of his appearing in that Character. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Dorilas Actor: Holland, who perform'd the part of Oroonoko
Role: Ismene Actor: Miss Minors With a Processionv, Sacrifice, after the manner of the ancients.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd the Lilliputian Sailors-

411
30 September 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great applause again--& he mended (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17580928, but Romeo-Fleetwood , 2d appearance; To the Masquerade Dance in Act I, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard.
Cast
Role: With the Additional Scene Representing the Funeral Actor:
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Champnes, Miss Young
Role: a Masquerade Dance Actor: proper to the Play.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

412
30 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Calling for ye Imitations & they were done (Cross). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #160 10s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Mossop; Duncan-Berry; Macduff-Havard; Ross-Davies; Malcolm-Austin; Banquo-Palmer; Hecate-Champness; Angus-Perry; Lenox-Scrase; Donalbaine-Master Simson; Witches-Burton, Yates, Blakes; Lady Macduff-Mrs Glen; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Pritchard; Seyward-Bransby; Hecate-Champness; The Vocal Part-Beard, Champnes, Mrs Vernon.
Cast
Role: The Vocal Part Actor: Beard, Champnes, Mrs Vernon.

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

413
01 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Alterations in Oroonoko by Dr Hawksworth -Garr: did Or (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Garrick1st time; Aboan-Holland; Blandford-Palmer; Imoinda-Mrs Cibber; Stanmore-Packer; Driver-Bransby; Governor-Burton; Planters-Moody, Perry, Scrase, Atkins, Mrs Bradshaw; Hotman-Blakes; Slaves-Ackman, Clough, Fox; In Act II will be introduc'd an Entertainment of Singing-Champnes, Reinhold, Miss Young; The Music by Mr Stanley, with a proper Dance of the Slaves-Grimaldi, Noverre, Matthews.
Cast
Role: with a proper Dance of the Slaves Actor: Grimaldi, Noverre, Matthews.
Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

414
05 November 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Applause to the Farce (Hopkins). Receipts: #179 14s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

415
17 January 1771 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Great care will be taken to have additional fires to make warm the said Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gioas Re Di Giuda

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Tenducci, Savoi, Morigi, Sga Grassi, Sga Guglielmi, Mrs Barthelemon.

Music: As17710110

Song: As17710110

416
31 March 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Applause to Mr G. House (Hopkins Diary). N.B. King Arthur which was to be performed this evening for Mr Barry's Benefit, is oblig'd to be deferred till further notice, on account of his continuing ill. Receipts: #266 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Baddeley, Palmer, W. Palmer, Hurst, Parsons, Moody, Jacobs, Bransby, Fawcett, Wheeler, Ackman, Kear, Keen, Johnson, Wrighten, Rooker, Miss Platt, Mrs Davies, Miss Ambrose, Miss Collett
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Lint Actor: Waldron and the Song of Johnny Pringle omitted from mention in Weston's role-_.
Role: with the Song of Johnny Pringle Actor: Weston

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17720326

417
30 April 1773 @ Crown and Anchor Tavern

Event Comment: Great Room, Crown and Anchor. Third time. Still announced as to be Rehearsed, and still in Manuscript

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jesuit

418
27 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Great Applause to the Farce (Hopkins Diary).Benefit for Mrs Abington. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for The Tender Husband will be taken. Send Servants by Four to prevent Confusion. [Sir Joshua Reynolds had procured forty places in the front boxes this night. Boswell and Dr Johnson were among his guests. Johnson could see and hear little, but sat out the performance, commenting on Garrick's excellence as a writer of Prologues. See Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, II, 324ff.] Receipts: #287 9s. 6d. Charges: #64 4s. Profits to Mrs Abington: #223, 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Seyward Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

419
06 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Shuter

420
08 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Shuter

421
10 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Shuter

422
11 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The composer's Night. Charges #84. Balance due Composer #82 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #166 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: With a Dance of the Furies Actor: Arnauld.

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander's

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Shuter

423
12 January 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Shuter

424
25 August 1701 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the Famous Dutchwoman's Booth against the Hospital Gate. At Barnes and Finley's Rope-Dancing Booth between the Crown Tavern and the Hospital Gate, over against the Cross-Daggers in Smithfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Related Works
Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

425
May 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is uncertain. The fact that the Epilogue suggests that it followed Settle's The Female Prelate is not a factor in the dating, as the Newdigate newsletters--see Wilson, Theatre Notes from the Newdigate Newsletters, p. 80--show that Settle's play was first acted on 31 May 1680, whereas Caesar Borgia was entered in the Term Catalogues, November 1679. Although the reference in the Epilogue to burning the Pope's Effigies" has been argued as referring to the Pope-burning procession of 17 Nov. 1679, the references in the Epilogue to Father Lewis, who was tried and convicted at York, 28 March 1679, suggest that it was written before his execution, 27 Aug. 1679. Hence the play may have been acted first some time in the late spring or the summer. A song, Blush not redder than the Morning, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caesar Borgia, Son Of Pope Alexander The Sixth