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5444 results for: Keyword - English and Irish Stage
We found 2551 matches on Event Comments, 1762 matches on Performance Comments, 1632 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3551
10 April 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Pit and Boxes put together with admission by ticket only at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

3552
12 May 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit boxkeepers. Pit and Boxes put together at 8s. Stage Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Dance: Several Entertainments of Dancing-

3553
23 October 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets...at half a Guinea each. The Number not to exceed 400. Boxes upon the Stage 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. And whereas by the frequent calling for the Songs again, the Operas have been too tedious; therefore the Singers are forbid to sing any Song but once; and 'tis hoped no body will call for 'em, or take it ill when not obeyed. The Book of the Opera at 1s. By Command, to begin exactly at 5. [Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

3554
26 October 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. At 5:30 p.m. Notices as 23 Oct. It having been the Common Practice of several Persons to come into the Opera and stay a whole Act, and sometimes longer, without paying, to the great Prejudice of the Opera, therefore it is humbly desired for the future, that no Person will take it ill that tney are not admitted without Tickets. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

3555
16 November 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes by ticket only (not to exceed 400) at 8s. Stage Boxes half a guinea. At 5:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

3556
30 December 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. With all the proper Decorations as Originally. Pit and Boxes together by Tickets at 8s. Stage Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 5:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

3557
26 February 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Composer unknown. Text by Zeno.] By Subscription. By His Royal Highness's Command. Admission to Pit and Boxes by Ticket only. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. The Book of the Opera given out with tickets. At 6:30 p.m. Colman's Opera Register: ye Musick managed by Nic Haym

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

3558
02 April 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Pilotti. By His Majesty's Command. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. Tickets for Ernelinda taken. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

3559
09 April 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. With the Original Mad-Scenev. Admission as 2 April. Colman's Opera Register: Ye House & ye stage full ye King, Prince, &c. present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

3560
23 June 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Boating Lovers; Or, The Libertine Tam'd

Performance Comment: The principal Part to be perform'd by Mrs Thurmond, who never appear'd on this Stage before; but edition of 1715 lists: Gaylove-J. Leigh; Sir Butterfly Ayrewould-Bullock Sr; Sir Timothy Tweedle-Bullock Jr; Colonel Winfield-Keene; Choleric-Griffin; Bounce-Hall; Decoy-Pack; Witful-Knapp; Thump-F. Leigh; Haircut-Church; Constable-Rogers; Upholder-Hil. Bullock; Servant-Cocker; Lady Youthful-Mrs Kent; Cosmelia-Mrs Thurmond; Clarinda-Mrs Cross; Secret-Mrs Garnet; Prate-Mrs Hunt; Giddy-Mrs Clarke; Prologue written-Bullock Jr; Epilogue-Mrs Thurmond.

Dance: delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

3561
25 June 1715 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolino. With New Scenes and Cloaths, particularly the Scene with the Fountain. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. At 6 p.m. Weekly Packet, 25 June: Signior Nicolini's Quail-Pipe continues to lug the Nobility and Gentry by the Ears, who have gone very far on his last Benefit-Night, towards equipping him for another purchase at Venice, he having already built a stately Edifice there, near the Rialto, upon which is written in Characters of Gold, Villa Britannica, as a Testimony that Scaliger's Saying, that we are Hospitibus Feri, is a downright Untruth, and falsly imputed to our Nation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Dance:

3562
05 September 1715 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: In the same House, on a small Stage, will likewise be presented by Mr Maddox, The Droll of Bateman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bateman; Or, The Fair Vow Breaker

3563
01 February 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With all the New Scenes and Cloaths. In which above 20 Songs are chang'd. Pit and Boxes together by ticket only at half a guinea, the number not to exceed 400. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

3564
04 February 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

3565
21 February 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: As 16 Feb., but admission as 4 Feb. At 6 p.m. No Person whatever to stand upon the Stage, by reason of the great many Scenes and Machines which are to be moved in this Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

3566
03 March 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. The Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. The King and a great Number of the Nobility present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

3567
09 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. The Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, pp. 103-4; She [Mrs Clayton] and Lady W. Powlett, and I went to the Play together, for the Benefit of Johnson, who is the best Comedian this Day upon the Stage, and I believe as true and good a Player as ever was in any Age, for the Parts that he plays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Song: As17151028

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell; particularly The Original Dance of Linkmen-

3568
29 May 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune; Or, The Witty And Humorous Ladies

Afterpiece Title: Oration

Performance Comment: With a New Oration on [several famous Heads [design'd as an Entertainment for the Court, and the rest of his Friends, written-[D'Urfey] [on the Stage.D'Urfey] [on the Stage.

Song: The Best Performers

Dance: the best Performers

3569
05 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Bajazet-Mills (Chetwood, General History of the Stage, p. 214); With a New Prologue by the Author of the Play-.

3570
07 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: See17161105, but Bajazet-Quin [Chetwood, General History of the Stage, p. 214]; With a New Prologue [by the Author of the Play-.

3571
08 December 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes put together by tickets only at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places in the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

3572
15 December 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

3573
05 January 1717 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Original Scenes and Machines belonging to the Opera. Admission: Pit and Boxes 8s. Stage Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

3574
23 January 1717 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

3575
23 February 1717 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. This Opera will be performed without Scenes, The Stage being in the same Magnificent Form as it was in the Ball [on 21 Feb.]. Admission as 15 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis