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5330 results for: Keyword - Henry the 8th
We found 3489 matches on Author, 1223 matches on Performance Title, 660 matches on Performance Comments, 431 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4526
24 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Simson and Raftor. No Building on the Stage on account of the Coronation. The kind appearance of many of my friends at my Benefit [22 April] calls on me in this earliest and publick manner to return them my unfeigned and sincerest thanks, and to assure them I shall ever preserve a greatfull remembrance of their favors. C.H. Receipts: #173 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Patience Actor: Miss Norris. Exact representation of the Coronation.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: a Rural Dance Actor: Mathews, Mme Janeton Auretti.
Role: to conclude with a Rural Dance Actor: Mathews.

Song: NNanny@O-Wilder

4527
29 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for one Jones and a Dang Master (Cross). No building on stage. Tickets deliver'd out for the Confederacy will be taken. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Patience Actor: Miss Norris. Exact representation of the Coronation.

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti

Song: Beard

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

Music: CConcerto on Violin cello-Mr Jones

4528
09 October 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Cromwell Actor: Mozeen. With an exact Representation of the Coronation, and the ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hall.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

4529
19 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. Quin did Falstaff for Ryan (Cross). The Nobility and Gentry at Bath gave Quin 100 guineas, and desir'd him to send them down so many tickets for this benefit (Gentleman's Magazine, 1753, p. 147). Pit and Boxes together at 5s. [with an Amphitheatre on stage]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With The Humours Of Falstaff

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

4530
02 May 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: MMinuet-Piettro, Miss Batcheldor

4531
10 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With The Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Performance Comment: As17550318 but with Original Epilogue by Desire-Foote in the character of an Auctioneer.
Cast
Role: Original Epilogue by Desire Actor: Foote in the character of an Auctioneer.

Dance: Pantomime Peasant Dance, as17550104

Entertainment: The Cries of London-Shuter

4532
12 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4533
03 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: As17550430

4534
14 October 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Related Works
Related Work: The Lottery Author(s): Henry Fielding

4535
06 November 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

4536
01 December 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: By Desire TheFingalian Dance, as17551126

4537
05 January 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17551101

4538
10 May 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for White, Treasurer. No Building on the stage. Afterpiece: By Desire, but for the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Cointe; III: Fingalian Dance, as17551126; V: Les Paisans Gallants, as17551203

Song: IV: Ballad-Roberts

4539
25 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

4540
23 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: I: Haymakers Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; II: Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Song: A Dialogue to be sung-Baker, Mrs Chambers, wrote by Boyce

4541
05 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With The Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

4542
17 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4543
28 December 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #92 17s. Mem: Princess Caroline died this day in the afternoon, and the two theatres &c. were silenc'd to Friday the 6th of January following, seven nights. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4544
12 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To be Lett. Elegantly Furnish'd, the House of the Late Colley Cibber, Esq: in Berkley Square, the Corner of Bruton Street (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #106 3s. Gave Porters of the several Inns, #3 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

4545
11 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Spanish Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; II: New Peasant Dance-Master Banti, Miss Wilford, her 1st on the stage, both scholars to Poitier Sr; III: A Dutch Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; IV: A Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; V: A Minuet-Poitier, Sga Banti

4546
16 May 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

4547
04 October 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

4548
21 October 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Cast
Role: McRuthen Actor: Shuter

Dance: As17581016

4549
05 January 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: As17581016

4550
28 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv With The Humours Of falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald