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1075 results for: Keyword - Garden of Eden
We found 989 matches on Event Comments, 54 matches on Performance Comments, 45 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

476
27 November 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. King goes to Covent Garden (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

477
18 December 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Last night the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, Prince Henry, Prince Frederick, and Princess Augusta were at Covent Garden to see The Merry Wives of Windsor and The What D'ye Call It (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17551101

478
19 December 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pond. Tickets to be had of Mr Pond, in Bridges St., Covent Garden, and of Mr Crudge at the stage door. [Possibly she was the Young Gentlewoman who played Zara 15 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17551101

479
28 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Notice is hereby Given that the Annual Feast of the Shakespeare Society will be held on Wednesday the 10th of March next, at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern, Covent Garden, and that tickets are left with the Master of that House to be disposed of to the Gentlemen who subscrib'd for tickets for the last Feast, and who are to call for them on or before the 7th of February. Such Tickets as are not call'd for by that day will be delivered to the Steward to be otherwise disposed of; The person's name to whom a ticket is deliver'd, will be indorsed thereon, and no other person admitted thereby. E.B. Secreatary (Public Advertiser). Receitps: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

480
12 February 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This day Published The Englishman Returned from Paris, as it is performed at Covent Garden. By Samuel Foote, Esq: Printed for Paul Vaillant, at 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17551114; Fingalian-Miss Hilliard

481
18 February 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, late Macklin's in Covent Garden. At the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

482
21 February 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

483
25 February 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

484
04 March 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden. By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

485
10 March 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: SShakespear Society. Anniversary Meeting of this Society will be held this Day, at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern in Covent Garden. Dinner will be on the table at Three. E.B. Secretary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athalia

486
10 March 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden. By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

487
17 March 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

488
22 March 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece [by Edward Young]: not acted these 30 years. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants allowed to keep places on the Stage. Tomorrow, not acted these 20 years, Ulysses for the Benefit of Mrs Woffington. A Young lady, remarkably handsome, appeared in the Pit of Covent Garden Playhouse on Monday Night last; she had on a white hat with pink ribbons; a pink colour'd Cardinal trimm'd with white fur, which she took off on account of people spitting down from the slips...She was standing near the Pit Door before the play began, but soon had room made for her at the end of one of the seats (Daily Advertiser, 22 March)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Egypt

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126; Les Statues Animees, as17560302

489
24 March 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden. To begin at 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

490
31 March 1756 @ The Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

491
21 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mr Blakes who spoke ye Ep: upon the Ass (Cross). Tickets at Blakes's House, Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at stage door. Receipts; #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews

492
01 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Scrase & Mathews (Cross). Tickets of Scrase at Tauranac's Wine Vault, in James St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song:

Dance: [As express'd in the Bills of the Day (playbill). Advance notice.]

493
13 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Notice is hereby given, that the Annual Feast of the Shakespeare Society will be held on Wed. 2nd of March next, at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern in Covent Garden; and that tickets are left with the Master of that House to be disposed of to the Gentlemen who subscribed for Tickets for the last Feast, and who are to call for them at any time within thirty days from the date thereof. Such tickets as are not in that time called for will be delivered to the Stewards to be otherwise disposed of. The person's name to whom a Ticket is deliver'd will be endors'd thereon, and no other person can be admitted thereby. E. B. Secretary (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

494
17 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Author Publish'd at 1s. Printed for and sold by R. Francklin, in Russel St., Covent Garden; and P. Valliant, in the Strand. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Author

495
22 February 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Foote for ye farce (Cross). Mainpiece:Not acted these 12 years. [See 20 Nov. 1745.] Austin did Bertran r(first time) (Indiff) (Cross). Tickets to be had of Foote at the Whalebone Warehouse in James St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the stage door. Part of pit laid into boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Author

496
25 February 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [E+Esther] With New Additions. Pit and Boxes to be put together .No persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be open'd at Half an Hour after Four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o'Clock. This day publish'd Esther. An Oratorio, composed by Handel, as is to be performed this day at Covent Garden. Printed for J. Watts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

497
02 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: SShakespear Society. The Annual feast of this Society will be held this day at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden. Dinner will be on the Table at 3 o'clock (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

498
18 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow at noon will be publish'd the Tragedy of Douglas as it is in acting at Covent Garden. Printed for A. Miller in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Triumph Of Time And Truth

499
21 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Tickets to be had of Barry at his house in Bow St., Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17561217

500
26 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mossop. Tickets at his lodgings in Newton's Warehouse, in Tavistock St., Covent Garden; and of Varney. [The Dramatic Register No 17 commented favorably upon Mossop's performance noting especially his fine modulation of voice. It also castigated a recent scurrilous attack upon Mossop. See Theatrical Clippings.] Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe