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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.

5551
23 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Tragedy by Dr Philip? Francis, author of Eugenia, --went off very indifferently (Cross). [This tragedy is mercilessly attacked in The Tuner No 2 by Paul Hiffernan, who compares its phrasing in a dozen instances with similar, but more perfect phrasing in Shakespeare.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine

5552
28 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Constantine

Performance Comment: As17540223, but with a New Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: with a New Epilogue Actor: .

5553
04 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day publish'd at 6d. The Story on which the new tragedy call'd Virginia, now performing at Drury Lane, is founded. Sold by W. Reeve in Fleet St. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

5554
04 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Marina Giordani. Full Prices (Cross). A new Italian Comic Opera. The Music composed by Balthazar Galuppi. Ladies desired to send servants by Half an Hour after Three. This day publish'd at 1s. La Cameriera Accorta, Opera Comico, per Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English Translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cameriera Accorta

Afterpiece Title: Enterntainment

Dance: [Unspecified.]

5555
12 March 1754 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Musick composed by Mr Handel. New Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admeto

5556
18 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: fterpiece] A farce of 3 Acts taken from Shaks Taming ye Shrew (by Garrick) call'd new Catharine & Petruchio (Cross). Mrs Pritchard's Benefit. Tickets of Mrs Pritchard at her lodgings at Pritchard's Warehouse, in Tavistock St. Part of pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #298 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste

5557
23 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. A new Operetta. Farce dull & hiss'd at ye End (Cross). Music by D'Fesch. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. N.B. Tis hoped Gentlemen won't take it ill that they can't be admitted into the Orchestra, as it will be impossible to perform the Entertainment without the whole band of Music. Tickets to be had of Mrs Clive at her Lodgings at the Wheatsheaf in Henrietta St. and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #240 [Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The London Prentice

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti

5558
01 April 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Performance Comment: As17540328 but a New Occasional Prologue-Foote.
Cast
Role: a New Occasional Prologue Actor: Foote.

Dance: LLes Taileurs, as17531210

5559
08 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: No Performance Passion Week (Cross). We hear that a new Tragedy call'd Creusa Queen of Athens, written by the author of the Roman Father is now in rehearsal at Drury Lane, in which Miss Macklin will play the part of a boy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

5560
22 April 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's Concert

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Sga Gapatoona, Sga Mendenia; New Prologue, Epilogue-Miss Midnight, riding on an Ass.

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Fribble

Entertainment: CCaudle-Mrs Midnight, Family of Mrs Midnight

Dance: GGrand Burlesque Dances-Timbertoe

5561
23 April 1754 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. First performance in England. The Musick composed by Jomelli; text-Metastasio (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, p. 112)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Attilio Regolo

5562
04 June 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Not performed.] Last Night ththe new English Opera of Eliza was suppressed by an Order from superior Power, by which Means many Persons of Taste were deprived of a very elegant Entertainment, as it was universally acknowledg'd that this musical Performance was very extraordinary Merit, being a sensible Composition, calculated to convey the liveliest Ideas to the Fancy, and to awaken the Passions of very feeling Heart. It is said, that instigated by this Disappointment, Mr Arne will apply to P-t for a Bill to unnaturalize him, that he may then have the Privileges of an Englishman, as well as any Foreigner of them all (Gray's Inn Journal No 37, 8 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

5563
18 October 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Others-Johnson, Clough, Blakes, Miss Minors, Mrs Jefferson, Mad Mariet; To Conclude by Desire, with the last new Dance, The Shepherd's Holiday- [See17541008].See17541008].

5564
11 November 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted there. The Principal Characters New Dress'd. As written by Shakespear (Cross). Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

5565
16 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: On Monday a New Italian Burletta, call'd L'Arcadia in Brenta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

5566
18 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Play a New Italian Burletta. The first performance in England. Libertto by Goldoni; Music by Galuppi (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, p. 107). Books of the Opera will be sold at the theatre. Ladies send servants by half past three. Nothing but full prices will be taken during the performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'arcadia In Brenta

5567
09 December 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Text--Goldoni; first performance in England. Music by Sg Vinceni Ciampi. Play a New Italian Burletta. Printed books of the opera will be sold at the theatre. Ladies send servants at half three. [The Epilogue (Larpent MS 117) suggests lovemaking in crowded theatres (see 8 Jan. 1755)]: @Close pack'd they sit and woo with secret squeeze,@Attracting elbows, sympathetic knees...

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Famiglia De Bertholdi, Alla Corte Del Re Alboino

Dance: [Unspecified.]

5568
08 January 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the New Theatre in the Haymarket (where Mr Foote lately appeared), an Orator's head will be dissected secundum artem. The Orators will be shewn lying in state with Heiroglyphicks and Monumental Inscriptions. The Question will be whether they will be allow'd Christian burial? If t'is granted, a funeral Oration will be pronounced by Martinus Scriblerus. Places for the Boxes to be taken at the theatre. Thus orator to orator succeeds@Another and another after him@and the last.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Course Of Comic Lectures

5569
25 January 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The New Entertainment [Proteus] is deferr'd in order to give some respite to [the performers]. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

5570
27 January 1755 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restored

Music: [Unspecified.

5571
29 January 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 1 May 1747.] With New Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations. No after money will be taken. None admitted behind scenes. [This note accompanies all performances of this pantomime this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice, Intermix'd with Metamorphoses of Harlequin

5572
03 February 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera presented by Mr Giordani, with his Company, and La Signora Spiletta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'albergatrice

5573
17 February 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New Italian Comic Opera. Benefit for Sga Spiletta and Giordani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'albergatrice

5574
27 February 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: On Saturday a new Tragedy call'd Appius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

5575
12 March 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This day publish'd at 3s. The Actor; or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing. A New Work written by the Author of the former [See dl 30 Oct. 1753]; and adapted to the present state of the Theatres. Containing impartial Observations on the Performance, Manner, Perfections, and Defects of: Garrick, Barry, Woodward, Foote, Havard, Palmer, Ryan, Berry, Mrs Cibber, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Woffington, Mrs Gregory, Mrs Clive, Mrs Green, Miss Nossiter, Mrs Bellamy, &c., &c., in their capital parts. Printed for R. Griffiths

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus