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6823 results for: Keyword - College of New York
We found 3243 matches on Event Comments, 2694 matches on Performance Title, 1654 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4601
04 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Joseph Addison. Music by Thomas Clayton.] A new Opera never yet perform'd. By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [Both A Critical Discourse upon Operas (1709) and Jacobs (I, 3) refer to the unsatisfactory nature of the music; as a result, according to Jacobs, "It had not the Success due to its Merit."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

4602
01 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Motteux. Music adapted by Pepusch.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Front Boxes and Side Boxes to be laid open into the Pit; where none are to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. And the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

4603
07 February 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: See dl 6 Dec. 1707, but Metius (with several new Select Songs added)-Gioseppi Cassani, lately arrived from Italy.

Dance: Cherrier, Debargues, Mrs Debargues, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Evans, others

4604
02 March 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Words from the Italian of G. B. Neri. Music by Francesco Conti and others.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

4605
02 April 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an entire set of new Scenes, Painted by two famous Italian Painters (lately arriv'd from Venice) and all the other Decorations that were represented in the Opera of Clotilda. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

4606
07 April 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and No Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets at half a Guinea each. Note, That the Tickets deliver'd out for the Moor of Venice, and Great Mogul, will be taken at this Play. [Receipts: possibly #154 6s. 7 1!2d., according to Baggs.] For a comment on this occasion, see Tatler, 12 April. Whincop (pp. 175-76) states: But Mr Betterton being new past Seventy Years of Age, and lame with the Gout, seemed but to burlesque the Part of youthful Valentine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

4607
28 May 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With an addition of a whole new Scene, consisting of Three Songs, compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and perform'd by the famous Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. The Scenes, as 2 April. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by Printed tickets only. Stage boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

4608
03 June 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17090507, but Gravedigger-Underhill; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.

4609
06 June 1709 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies in Greenwich and from London. At Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fine Ladies Airs

4610
19 September 1709 @ Hampstead

Event Comment: At Mr Goff's new Playhouse in Hampstead. This Consort will be perform'd with much better Decorum than before. [In Post Boy, 13-15 Sept., it was announced that the Justices for Middlesex had served an order at Hampstead forbidding the players "to act any more there."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Celebrated Songs, Comic Dialogues by the late Mr Henry Purcel, other great English Masters, for 1, 2 and 3 voices; the whole, as it will be perform'd, and by whom, in our great Bills to which we refer-

4611
28 November 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines never shewn before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: With all the Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

Dance: Dances proper to the Play-

4612
17 December 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Entertainment: Higgins

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

4613
27 December 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

Entertainment: Higgins

4614
21 February 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrid

Performance Comment: As17100109, but Ordgar-a Young Gentleman, a Friend of the Author's, who is pleas'd to Act it for his own diversion; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

4615
06 March 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: A Practice of the new Opera in Form; to begin exactly at Six a Clock. [See also 2 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Practice Of An Opera [hydaspes

4616
21 March 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With all the Scenes and Decorations of the last new Opera of Almahide. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets, at a half guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

4617
21 March 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain; Or, The Usurer Turned Soldier

Performance Comment: Woman Captain-Mrs Bradshaw; Usurer-Norris; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.

4618
17 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant, 15 April, a new play, The Force of Friendship, had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

4619
25 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With an entire new Scene, consisting of Four Songs Compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and Sung by Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. For the Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings [but see dl]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

4620
17 May 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 12 May, but not later, two afterpieces-The Walking Statue and (new) The Twin Venturers-had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

4621
22 June 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: Othello-Wilks; Iago-Cibber [Daily Courant, 20 June, only]; With a new Epilogue (intended to be Humorous) Writ-Mr Cibber[, upon all Mankind's being Actors on the Stage of the World., upon all Mankind's being Actors on the Stage of the World.

4622
16 December 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With the Addition of a New Cascade Scenev after the Italian Manner. Receipts: #124 1s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

4623
12 May 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Baroness. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With a new Cantata after the Italian Manner. Admission as 7 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

4624
14 May 1711 @ Punch's

Event Comment: Benefit the Little Child that Dances with the Swords. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With new Scenes, Machines, and several Dances by Fairies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairy Queen

4625
21 May 1711 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Baxter. At Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich. At 5 p.m., several People returning to London the same Night, it being Moonlight Nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido; Or, The Faithful Shepherd

Dance: Dances with Swords to Admiration-A girl of five

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-