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We found 18079 matches on Event Comments, 1063 matches on Performance Comments, 12 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #74 5s.; tickets #46 14s. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, the individual for whom it was a benefit received half the value of the ticekts.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Le Bergeres Fidelle (new)-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. For the Benefit of the Brave and Unfortunate Capt John Peddie, of the Prince of Orange, who, after defending his Ship, and saving her by the most Gallant Behaviour, against a Spanish Privateer, had the Misfortune to lose her, and all he had on Board, in the late Storm. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Pit and Boxes 5s. Galleries 2s. and 1s. Receipts: money #52 1s.; tickets #295 (Account Book); #350 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #125 (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17401121; Also M Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #150 16s. (Account Book); #200 (Rylands MS.). [The King, Duke, and Princesses Amelia, Carolina, and Louisa present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland, Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #132 10s. (Account Book); #110 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Receipts: #71 7s. 6d. (Account Book); #70 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Dance: Desnoyer, Signora Barberini, Glover, Mlle Roland, Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #104 4s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Written by Ben Johnson. Receipts: #68 13s. (Account Book); #70 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Dance: As17401209

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #114 12s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: TThe Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Mars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Written Originally by Shakespear, and revised and adapted to the Stage by Mr Theobald. Receipts: #129 19s. 6d. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood Or The Distrest Lovers

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: As 13 Dec. Receipts: #35 16s. (Account Book); #35 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood

Dance: As17401213

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Higness the Prince of Wales. Afterpiece: A Masque of Musick. Receipts: #69 18s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). Rylands MS.: Mrs Barbier sung (hiss'd)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Dance: HHarlequin Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #53 16s. (Account Book); #90 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Event Comment: For the Benefit of a Gentleman, with a large Family, who has suffered very great Losses. Receipts; Benefit Turner. Money #19 14s.; seals #42 3s. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Miller and his Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; The Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #88 7s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: LLouvre-Signora Barberini; Harlequin-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Satyrs and Nymphs-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. Rylands MS.: For Oates. Receipts: money #15 7s. 6d.; seals #75 19s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: LLe Bergeres Fidelle-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mrs Centlivre. Receipts: #102 5s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #82 2s. 6d. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: TTyrolean Dancebetween Hungarian and Two Tyrolese-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini; Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Written by Ben Johnson. Receipts: #65 3s. (Account Book); #70 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Dance: As17401230

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #110 12s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Dance: TTyrolean Dance, as17401230; Peasant Dance-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Satyrs and Nymphs-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Receipts: #109 13s. 6d. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: TTyrolean Dance, as17401230; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: At the partiuclar Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #136 17s. 6d. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: As 4 Dec. 1740. Receipts: #87 14s. (Account Book); #90 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: SScots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; Tyrolean Dance-Desnoyer, Haughton, Signora Barberini; Grecian Sailors-Glover; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Receipts: #121 6s. 6d. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #50 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Dance: LLouvre-Signora Barberini; Minuet-Signora Barberini; Harlequin Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland; Tyrolean Dance, as17410108