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512 results for: Keyword - His Majesty's Comedians
We found 432 matches on Event Comments, 63 matches on Performance Comments, 20 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

451
09 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1 By His Majesty's Command. Present The King and Princess Amelia. Paid Mr Arthur a Bill for glass Lustres &c #7 15s. 2d. Receipts: #177 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

452
13 January 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Present the King, Duke and Princess Amelia. Paid Hancks a bill for coals expended at Lincolns Inn Fields Theatre while the soldiers kept guard there...#22 18s. Receipts: #173 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Serjeants at Arms Actor: the rest of the comedians

453
11 February 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By his Majesty's Command. Benefit Mlle Violette. Eight rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes, and servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. Places for the Boxes may be taken of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Dance: Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook

454
17 February 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). Present The King and The Princess Amelia. Rec'd by overcharge in Woodfall's Bills Jan. 14: 5s. and 17 days at 1s. per day of Miss in Her Teens: #1 2s. Receipts: #188 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

455
28 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing & P. (Cross). By His Majesty's Command. ["Mr Garrick's Conduct as Manager &c." publish'd at 6d. (query: 2nd edition?).] Receipts: #193 (Cross); #165 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

456
14 November 1747 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the said Office at Half a Guinea apiece. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command no Persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open at 4 p.m. Pit and Boxes at 5 p.m. To begin at 6 p.m. [This notice regularly repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

457
09 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). King & Daughters? (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross); #169 13s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17471128

458
08 January 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. King and...(Cross). Receipts: #198 (Cross); #183 7s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis, Mathews

459
21 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Play not acted these 7 years. [See 23 Apr. 1744] Receipts: #150 (Cross); #156 17s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: Several Entertainments-Cooke, the Aurettis, Mathews, Mrs Addison

460
31 December 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. [Leo's Amor Vuol Sofferenza. See Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 195.] By His Majesty's Command no Person whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Finta Frascatana

Dance: Between Acts: Dancing-

461
02 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Peace Proclaim'd (Cross). Yesterday most of the Foreign Ministers had a very grand entertainment at Pontack's, on Account of the Peace being proclaimed yesterday at Paris. This morning the Peace is to be proclaim'd, pursuant to his majesty's royal warrant, signed for that purpose, the ceremony of which is to be in the following manner (General Advertiser). [Follows an account of the five places and times of reading the proclamation throughout the city.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #116 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Mathews, Mrs Addison; New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Music: By Desire-the Child

462
28 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night Or What You Will

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Matthews, Mrs Addison, the Little Swiss

463
17 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Benefit for Mlle Auretti. King an Princess Emilia [attended] (Cross). Tickets and places to be had of Mlle Auretti at the second house on the left hand, the Corner Panton St., in Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. [Pit and boxes laid together and Amphitheatre on stage, as on 10 March.] Paid salary list #203 7s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #280 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: Between the acts: Savoyard Travellers, A Wooden Shoe Dance, a Minuet, Louvre-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker, Mlle L'Contri, Master Maltere, Miss Foulcade; the whole to conclude with: Country Dance-

464
28 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. King, Duke, Princess, P. of Wales & P. Edward (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Mad Auretti, Matthews, Mad Janeton Auretti

465
18 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye widow of Capt. James Spencer, an Officer &c., and her small Children (Cross). An Old Officer who had been in His Majesty's Service 46 years, but dying when upon half-pay has left the Widow without pension and with several small children in greatest distress. N.B. Part of the Pit will be rail'd into the boxes and servants will be allowed to keep places on the Stage. Tickets to be had of Mrs Spencer, the uppermost house in Prince's Court, by Storey's Gate; the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; the Tiltyard Coffee House; St James Coffee House; Sweet's Coffee House, Bukingham Court; Bridge Street Coffee House; The Rainbow Coffee House, Ludgate Hill; the Temple Exchange, Fleet St.; the Rainbow, Cornhill; and at the Stage Door of the theatre where places may be taken. Mr Norton Amber, humbly hopes this general acknowledgment of the favour which his friends were pleas'd to confer on him by their generous appearance last Night at Drury Lane, will be accepted, instead of a more particular application, which his constant employment prevents; and begs leave to assure them, that he shall ever retain a most grateful sense of their indulgent assistance. Receipts: #252 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

466
20 December 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

467
16 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Proclamation Southwark

Performance Comment: Whereas the Fair, called Lady Fair, in this Borough, is by charter appointed to be held the seventh, eighth, and ninth days of September O.S. yearly, w ll this year begin, and holden this day the 16th day of September, N.S. occasioned by the alteration of the Stile, and continued the two following days, to wit the 19th and 20th and no longer. And whereas the said Fair hath for several years past been continued against Law, for a longer time than the said three days, contrary to the institution thereof, whereby divers Riots, and other Disorders have been committed in breach of His Majesty's peace; for preventing of which misdemeanors and abuses it is thought fit and needful to give this Publick notice that if any persons do presume to keep open any Booth, Shed, or other Building, or permit and further any Stall, or Stand to be and remain before their Door longer than the said 18th, 19th, and 20th days of September NS, with intent to prolong said Fair, and put to sale there goods and wares, or shall act and exhibit any Droll or Show, or foster to be acted and exhibited in any Booth or Dwelling house any Droll, or Show, or other Entertainment of the Stage, or shall play at, or encourage any sort of gaming contrary to the Laws and Statutes of his realm; such person or persons so offending will be prosecuted and punished according to the Law (General Advertiser, 16, 18, 19, 20, Sept. 1752).

468
06 February 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Play Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Dance: IIl Morlaco, as17521219; Grand Scots Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; Il Pastore-Maranesi, Signora Bugiani

469
08 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. King only (Cross). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: LeFevre, Mlle Prud'homme, the French Children, Mlle Auguste, others

470
13 November 1753 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command, no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes. [Repeated.] Director-Vanneschi, A New Opera. With New Decorations, etc. To begin at 6:00 p.m. Boxes and Pit a half guinea. Gallery 5s. [Repeated.] No Servants will be admitted into the Footman's Gallery, but those that attend their Masters or Ladies to the said Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nerone

471
02 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: Maranesi, Sga Bugiani

472
09 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

473
09 November 1754 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command No Persons Whatsoever to be admitted behind the scenes. A new Opera [Altered from Metastasio; Music by Hasse and Lampugnani.] with New Decorations and Dances. To begin at 6 p.m. Pit and Boxes a half guinea. Gallery 5s. [Repeated in the bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lipermestra

Dance: Pietro, Isaia Nieri, Arna Conti, Elizabeth Buggiani, Cosimo Marranesi

474
25 January 1755 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Care has been taken to make the House warmer, by the addition of two more Stoves, one being fixed under the Centre of the Pit, and the other near his Majesty's Box

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

475
11 November 1755 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Musick composed by Jomelli. Pit and Boxes 1!2 guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. By His Majesty's Command, no Person admitted behind the Scenes. [Repeated in the bills.] The Subscribers to the Operas for the ensuing Season, are desir'd to pay their Subscription money to Mr Crawford, Treasurer of the said Theatre. Pit Tickets, for Tuesdays only, 15 Tickets for five Guineas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromaca

Dance: With new Dances- [repeated several times]