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2273 results for: Keyword - Gentlemen of the Choir
We found 989 matches on Performance Comments, 864 matches on Event Comments, 390 matches on Author, 200 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

451
20 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Hale. Mainpiece not acted these 14 years [see 15 May 1734]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, Man-hater

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17441012

Song: II: A Duet-Beard, Miss Edwards

452
21 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of the company's acting this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

453
23 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece Intermixed with a pantomime in Grotesque Characters. [The Young Gentlewoman presumably Miss Faulkner; see 20 March 1746. Yet there may be some question about the identification; see 5 April 1746.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Related Works
Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

454
25 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

455
26 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

456
27 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

457
30 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives' Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

458
02 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

459
06 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17451203

460
07 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17451203

461
10 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17451203

462
13 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [see 29 March 1742]. With all the Music, Songs, Dances, Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations proper to the play. Also the Additional reinforcement of Mr Bayes's new Rais'd Troops

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Cibber; Johnson-Ryan; Smith-Johnson; Kings of Brentford-Arthur, Dunstall; Prince Prettyman-Hale; Gentleman Usher-Hippisley; Prince Volscius-Gibson; Physician-Rosco; Drawcansir-Marten; Lt General-Ridout; Tom Thimble-James; Thunder-Bridgwater; Lightning-Mrs Vaughan; Sun-Bencraft; Moon-Leveridge; Earth-Roberts; Amarillis-Miss Hippisley; Chloris-Mrs Bland; Pallas-Woodward; Two Sing/song Dancing Spirits-Mrs Lampe, Mrs Dunstall; Players, Soldiers (Horse and Foot), Heralds, Cardinals, Judges, Serjeants at Arms-the rest of the Comedians; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Roberts, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Serjeants at Arms Actor: the rest of the Comedians
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

463
19 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Yesterday being the Fast Day appointed by Authority the same was observed in the cities of London and Westminster with strict Solemnity

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Serjeants at Arms Actor: the rest of the Comedians
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

464
21 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Yesterday Mr Rich paid into the Chamberlain's Office at Guildhall, the sum of #602 7s. to the Veteran's scheme, being the three night's receipts arising from the Beggar's Opera, performed at cg: And he thinks it incumbent on him in justice to the several persons interested in the Said theatre, to declare, that when the above scheme was by him proposed, they all most generously subscrib'd their demands for these three nights in order to enlarge the sums to be rais'd for the above purpose.-General Advertiser. [The Gentlemen's Magazine, Dec. 1745, states the idea of this gift was proposed by Mrs Cibber, and that the tallow chandlers also gave the candles.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: With the Original Music Actor:
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Thompson, Roberts, Mrs Lampe
Role: all the Dances Actor: , decorations proper to the play.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

465
23 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

466
26 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Serjeants at Arms Actor: the rest of the Comedians
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17451203 end: God Save the King-

467
28 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson. At the particular desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Related Works
Related Work: Epicœne; or, The Silent Woman Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

468
04 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

469
07 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

470
08 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: Beard; particularly a New English Ballad call'd The English Hero's Welcome Home-Leveridge, Reinhold, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Wright, Miss Faulkener; The Music-Lampe

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

471
16 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

472
22 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: With the Original Music Actor:
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Thompson, Roberts, Mrs Lampe
Role: all the Dances Actor: , decorations proper to the play.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

473
29 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Cast
Role: Hothead Actor: Woodward

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

474
31 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Cast
Role: Hothead Actor: Woodward

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17460125

475
01 February 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Cast
Role: Hothead Actor: Woodward

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: As17460125