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We found 10697 matches on Event Comments, 5478 matches on Performance Comments, 2462 matches on Performance Title, 22 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental by the best Hands from the Opera. Vocal Part by Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Atalanta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: DDublin Maggot-Philips; Tambourine-Mlle Roland; Russian Sailor-Denoyer

Song: TThe Lady's Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino (a new Ballad)-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] By a Company of Comedians dropt from the Clouds, late Servants to their thrice-renown'd Majesties, Kouly Kan and Theodore. With new Scenes, Habits, and proper Decorations. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 1st N.B. To prevent the Imposition of Box-Keepers, Gentlemen and Ladies are humbly desir'd to take Tickets at the Office, or to send for them at the Theatre, where Attendance will be given every Day, and Places may be taken. 2d N.B. The Company will endeavour to entertain the Town the remaining part of the Season. [In advance bill in Daily Advertiser, 23 Feb.: 2d N.B. Considering the extraordinary Expence that must necessarily attend equipping so many Monarchs of different Nations, the Proprietor hopes the Town will not take Umbrage at the Prices being rais'd. 3rd. N.B. The Proprietor begs leave to enter his Caveat against all (what Names soever distinguish'd) who may hire, or be hir'd, to do the Drudgery of Hissing, Catcalling, &c. and entreats the Town would discourage, as much as in them lies, a Practice at once so scandalous and prejudicial to Author, Player, and every Fair Theatre Adventure.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Rehearsal Of Kings; Or, The Projecting Gingerbread Baker; With The Unheard Of Catastrophe Of Macplunderkan, King Of Roguomania And The Ignoble Fall Of Baron Tromperland, King Of Clouts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Muilment; III: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Muilment

Song: II: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; IV: By particular Desire, a Song in the Character of a Sea Captain (as17400325-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: L'Arlequinea deux Visage-Mlle Chateauneuf alone; II: Muilment; III: La Jalouzie-Desnoyer, Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; V: Hungarian Dance-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; End Afterpiece: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: V: Beard

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As 14 and 17 Feb. Afterpiece: A New Pantomime Entertainment. [The edition of 1741 prints Touchbury's parts as by Stitchbury and Hebe (instead of Ganymede) for Mrs Dunstall; it names Devoto as designer of the scenes and Prelleur as composer of music.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student; or, The Fall of Pantomime: With the Restoration of the Drama

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Player King Actor: Turbutt
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Happy Pair-Beard; III: a Ballad-Lowe

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

Event Comment: A notice had appeared announcing for this date a performance of Love Makes a Man, with Clodio-$Peterson, Cholerick-$Paget, and the rest of the parts by members of Giffard's Goodman's Fields Company (now of course at Lincoln's Inn Fields) and the Lying Valet, for the benefit of Paget, who states, in the notice, that he is out of work. The performance was not given, but see 25 Nov., by which date Paget was resting in Fleet prison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Would you taste the Noontide Air?-Mrs Hooper; III: Let me wander not unseen-Mrs Hooper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Hayman

Event Comment: WWalpole to H. Mann 14 April: To be performed by three good voices and forty bad ones, from Oxford, Canterbury, and the farces.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 231. An Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, consisting of various Motetts, Chorus's, Concerto's & to be divided into three parts, after the manner of an Oratorio. The whole to conclude with the celebrated Piece of Vocal Musick from Rome. [Usual prices.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Song: II: Song-Sullivan

Dance: III: Dance, as17431013; V: a New Dance-Muilment, Desse, Liviez, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: LLe Gondalier-Cooke, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Rector, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Duval

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Dance: II: Muilment

Song: III: A Cantata-Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, Love's the Physician

Dance: IV: Dance-Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Jealous Husband Deceiv'd

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Jealous Husband-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Havard; Pierot-Lalauze;the other parts to the best advantage; To conclude with theDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi.

Dance: MMinuet(by Desire)-Lalauze, Sga Campioni; Pigmalion, as17460409

Song: GGenius of England-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: III: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Miss Edwards; IV: Cantata-Lowe

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by Roger, Marr, Leigh, &c for Sir Courtly Nice will be taken. [Absence of additional parts in advance bill of 5 April suggests cutting of them in acting text.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of The Army

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigone

Event Comment: TTiled Booth, Bowling Green. A Concert, etc. Benefit Mrs Bambridge. Particular care is taken that the Parts will be performed by comedians from both Houses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught

Dance: As17461112