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271 results for: Keyword - Grosvenor-Square
We found 265 matches on Event Comments, 6 matches on Performance Comments, 2 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
12 June 1761 @ Ranelagh Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Judgment Of Paris

Song: Several favourite songs consisting of four intervals

Entertainment: Upon the Octagan Square in said Gardens will be displayed the following curious invention in Fireworks, viz. A long pole will be fixed in the middle of the square; at the bottom of which will stand an artificial Harlequin, which with a touch becomes transparent, swarms up the pole and lights up a garland of flowers. N.B. 'Tis humbly desired that the Public will not mistake this gentleman Harlequin for the scoundrel that formerly pretended to go into a bottle. After the above ingenious Fancy will be performed in the theatre the celebrated Masque call'd The Judgment of Paris, composed by Dr Arne, which being finished, upon the canal in the Gardens will be displayed several superb Fireworks called the Chinese Festival, invented and executed by Sg Carlo Genorinij, the famous Roman artificer. He will avoid all common exhibitions, as Rockets &c., which for want of novelty give no entertainment to the Public, and confine himself to works of real ingenuity, so innocent in their nature, that the ladies may stand ever so near, without the least possibility of danger, or being alarmed with uncouth noises. The intended exhibition will be as follows: A light ediface will be fixed near the Chinese Temple, and a boat will sail at the end of the canal, containing several persons performing on musical instruments, the boat moving to the Temple, and giving fire to the ediface, it will display several ingenious conceits; particularly the operations of the fireworks will change to ten different colours. Other fancies are reserved till the perfformance, which, it is hoped, will give general satisfaction to the public

Performance Comment: A long pole will be fixed in the middle of the square; at the bottom of which will stand an artificial Harlequin, which with a touch becomes transparent, swarms up the pole and lights up a garland of flowers. N.B. 'Tis humbly desired that the Public will not mistake this gentleman Harlequin for the scoundrel that formerly pretended to go into a bottle. After the above ingenious Fancy will be performed in the theatre the celebrated Masque call'd The Judgment of Paris, composed by Dr Arne, which being finished, upon the canal in the Gardens will be displayed several superb Fireworks called the Chinese Festival, invented and executed by Sg Carlo Genorinij, the famous Roman artificer. He will avoid all common exhibitions, as Rockets &c., which for want of novelty give no entertainment to the Public, and confine himself to works of real ingenuity, so innocent in their nature, that the ladies may stand ever so near, without the least possibility of danger, or being alarmed with uncouth noises. The intended exhibition will be as follows: A light ediface will be fixed near the Chinese Temple, and a boat will sail at the end of the canal, containing several persons performing on musical instruments, the boat moving to the Temple, and giving fire to the ediface, it will display several ingenious conceits; particularly the operations of the fireworks will change to ten different colours. Other fancies are reserved till the perfformance, which, it is hoped, will give general satisfaction to the public.

2
26 November 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Silvester. Mainpiece: Written by Congreve. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00. Tickets to be had of Silvester, No. 50, Brewer-street, Golden-square, and at No. 25, North Audley-street, Grosvenor-square; of Massey, No. 18, Snow-hill; of Frith, No. 39, King-street, West Smithfield; and of Blandford, Pea-Hen, Bishopsgate-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: After 2nd song: A Pas Seul-Mons Symone

Song: End IV: Tippy Bob-C. Stanley; End: Poor Jack in character-Mrs Kennedy

Entertainment: Monologue After Dancing: The Monody on the Death of the late D. Garrick Esq. (Written by R. B. Sheridan, Esq.)-the Lady who performs Zara

3
24 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Mrs Vincent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Receipts: money #28 15s. 6d.; tickets #85 16s. Tickets at Neale's, a Silk Dyer, in David Street, near Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Scottish Dance-Glover, DuPre, Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

4
16 September 1738 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 16 Sept.: To be Sold. The Lease (having upwards of 50 Years to come) of the late Theatre in Goodman's-Fields. Enquire of Mr Edward Shepherd, at his House in Audley-street, Grosvenor-Square

Performances

5
04 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Littlejohn. As 27 Nov. 1738. Tickets of Mrs Littlejohn, at Mr Wilson's, David Street, near Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

6
31 January 1743 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Godwin's Booth, Tyburn Road in Duke St., near Grosvenor Square. Princess Elizabeth, or Rise of Judge Punch, to which will be added by Persons for their Diversion, a farce call'd the Honest Yorkshireman. Pit 1s. First Gallery 6d. Upper Gallery 3s. [In spite of the wording, the entire performance may be a puppet show.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

7
15 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Turbutt. Tickets to be had of Neale, a Dyer, in David St., near Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The What D'Ye Call It

Song: III: Beard; IV: Gentle Parthenissa-Sullivan; V: Caesar and Urania-Beard, Lowe

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

8
28 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Neale. Main Piece by Dryden, not acted for 9 years. Tickets to be had at Mr Moore's in the Playhouse passage, and at Neale's (Silk Dyer) in David Street near Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosia's

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Muilment, Mechel, Mlle Mechel

9
17 April 1755 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit and support of the General Lying-In Hospital for Married and Unmarried Poor Objects in Duke Street Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

10
29 April 1756 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital in Duke St., Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Demofoonte

Dance: Between acts: A great variety of Dancing-

11
18 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital for married and unmarried Women, in Duke's St., Grosvenor Square. Ladies desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had at Arthur's, the Bedford, and the Temple Exchange Coffee Houses and also at the aforesaid Hospital. Tickets delivered for The Revenge will be taken. Next Week will be publish'd a Key to Lilliput in a letter to the Author of the Dramatic Entertainment. "Open Locks, whoever Knocks." Receipts: #266 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

12
17 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Box Tickets are to be had at A. Miller's in the Strand, R. and J. Dodsley's in Pall Mall, and H. Chapelle's in Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

13
02 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for The Lying In Hospital, Duke St,, Grosvenor Square. Charges #84. Ready money, #58 4s. Tickets #132 6s. [Total #190 10s.] Bought 3 doz wax candles #4 4s. [Books balance with #1 9s. 9d. carried over as a profit, only to fall to #218 2s. 4d. in the red as a result of meeting Saturday's payroll.] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

14
09 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Mianpiece. Garrick to Bath apparently to recover from an illness (Winston MS 10). From the Public Advertiser: To Mrs Barry, upon her acting the part of Rivine in the new Tragedy [The Fatal Discovery]: Grosvenor-Square, March 8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

15
07 October 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Walker. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2]: by a Gentleman from Edinburgh [unidentified. Larpent MS 433; not published. Authors of Prologues unknown. Mrs Moss is identified on playbill of 22 Apr. 1777]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00. Tickets to be had of Walker, No. 4, New Round-court, Strand; of McIntosh, the King's Head, near Marybone-street; at the St. Andrew, Wapping; at the Mount-street Coffee-house, Grosvenor-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: The Prejudice of Fashion

Song: End: The Birks of Invermay-the Lady who performs Peggy

16
10 August 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Morning Herald, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 36, Mount-street, Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing: A Dramatic Proverb

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Rosin a

17
26 April 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 36, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329

18
16 May 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowden. Morning Chronicle, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Bowden, No. 9, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts: #270 6s. (141.11.6; 10.13.0; tickets: 118.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory; or, The British Tars at Spithead

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End II: Sally in our Alley-Incledon; End: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

19
29 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowden. Account-Book: Received from Campbell for Fruit Rent #200. Oracle, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bowden, No. 6, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts: #274 7s. 6d. (122.1.6; 8.3.0; tickets: 144.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Song: End I: The Storm-Incledon; End: a Grand Harmonic Selection, Admiral Benbow-Incledon; The Sailor Boy cap'ring on Shore-Fawcett; O bring me wine-Bowden; The Land of Potatoes-Johnstone; The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden; Old Towler-Incledon

20
29 November 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Force of Ridicule; afterpiece of Richard Coeur de Lion, both advertised on playbill of 28 Nov.] "The new Comedy last night was deferred upon the pretext of Miss Farren's illness...The Manager sent after Mrs Siddons, who was found at Covent-Garden Theatre, seeing Abroad and at Home. Brandon, however, ordered her a chair, and she kindly performed Isabella. Wroughton read the Father" (Oracle, 30 Nov.). "For near an hour the audience waited patiently...At half past seven Palmer addressed the audience" He said that Miss Farren was ill, that to those who preferred to leave the theatre their money would be returned, and that instead of the new play Mrs Siddons would act Isabella, "as soon as the dresses could be prepared for that purpose. This address was by no means favourably received, and hundreds of persons immediately left the house. A few minutes after eight, the Curtain drew up to the tragedy, which was well performed, and much applauded by the few who remained to witness it" (Morning Herald, 30 Nov.). "November 30. Miss Farren last night refused to appear in a new Play at Drury Lane which made much confusion in the House. The cause assigned was indisposition but that was not believed by the audience; and the fact Lysons says is, that as she cannot obtain payment from the Theatre, she resolutely told them she wd. not appear unless her demands were paid...Such is the unprincipled conduct of Sheridan" (Diary of Joseph Farington, 1922, I, 174). [On 1 Dec. Morning Herald prints a letter from Miss Farren, from Green-street, Grosvenor-square. saying that she really was ill. The editor of the paper adds a note in which he affirms his positive knowledge that rumours about a dispute as to Miss Farren's unpaid salary were without foundation.] Receipts: #134 2s. (82.2; 50.18; 1.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

21
20 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowden. [1st piece in place of The Duenna, advertised on playbill of 19 May.] 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. True Briton, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Bowden, No. 6, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts: #236 12s. (101.14.6; 8.5.0;tickets: 126.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Rendezvous

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: End I: The Storm-Incledon; End II: Shakespeare's Loadsters (1st time in public; composed by Shield)-Incledon, Gray, Bowden; In 3rd piece: the Planxty, descriptive of Ireland, In my Father's Mud Cabin-Johnstone; End I 3rd piece: Old Towler-Incledon

22
31 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Litchfield and Miss Mitchell. 3rd piece: Not acted these 2 years. Morning Chronicle, 25 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Litchfield, No. 38, Bedford-street, Covent Garden; of Miss Mitchell, No. 3, Park-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts: #304 15s. 6d. (76.7.6; 1.12.0; tickets: 226.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day; Or, A Party At Hampton Court

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Song: End II: The Death of Admiral Benbow-Incledon; End: a song-Townsend; End I 2nd piece: The Snug Little Island-Townsend; End 2nd piece: Old Towler-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue Alexander's Feast-Mrs Litchfield

23
07 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Stephens. Morning Chronicle, 21 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Stephens, No. 85, Park-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts: #326 18s. 6d. (63.5.0; 51.10.6; 0.15.0; tickets: 211.8.0) (charge: #212 0s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: End II: a new Musical Address (composed by Horn)-; In course Evening: The Soldier tir'd of War's alarms-Miss Stephens; and an entire New Ballad-Miss Stephens

24
02 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: Never acted there. Interlude [1st time; INT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 433; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 5 May]. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson at his House in Tavistock-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #187 1s. (87.8; tickets: 99.13) (charge: #67 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Clock-Case; or, Female Curiosity

Performance Comment: Face-Wilson; Square-Robson; Magnum Bonum-Fearon; Triangle-Cushing; Compass-Wewitzer; Perpendicular-Thompson; Mrs Magnum-Mrs White; Mrs Square-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Square Actor: Robson
Role: Mrs Square Actor: Mrs Pitt.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

25
15 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Point at Herqui; or, British Bravery Triumphant

Dance: II: a Negro Dance-; 3rd piece: a new incidental Dance by Byrn-Mlle St.Amand, Holland, Byrn

Song: End I: Sweet Bird-Mrs Serres; accompanied on the German Flute (for this night only)-Ashe, from the Hanover-Square Concert; In Evening: Admiral Benbow-Incledon; 3rd piece: the following songs: The Mid Watch-Incledon; Tippy Bob-Munden; The Waiter-Fawcett; Irish Song-Johnstone; New Loyal Song-Mrs Martyr; Rondo-Mrs Clendining; Ye Gentlemen of England-Linton, Street, Incledon; Rule Britannia-Incledon, Johnstone, Chorus