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3836 results for: Keyword - James White
We found 2140 matches on Author, 1389 matches on Performance Comments, 480 matches on Event Comments, 47 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2751
20 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs White, the Boxkeeper's Widow. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #9 19s. 6d.; tickets #54 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Hutton; particularly a Hornpipe-Jones

2752
24 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rowland and the Widow White. Receipts: money #8 7s. 6d.; tickets #111 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Injur'd Love

Dance: Galliard-Lally, Mrs Cross; Dutch Skipper-Pelling, Mrs Bullock

2753
18 May 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Walford and Widow White. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #6 19s. 6d.; tickets #99 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Nivelon Sr, Newhouse, Lanyon, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly Wooden Shoe Dance, French Peasant-Nivelon Sr, Mrs Rogier; Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier

2754
14 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Willcocks, White, Mrs Hollyday, Miss Smythies. Receipts: money #14 5s.; tickets #156 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: SScotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Pastoral-Lally, Mrs Wall; Dutch Burgomaster and Wife-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

2755
19 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Laurence, Boxkeeper, and Widow White. Receipts: money #18 6s. 6d.; tickets #113 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: SScots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Polonese-Lally, Mrs Wall; Saraband, Pierot-Mlle Harve

2756
30 December 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Daily Journal, 30 Dec.; And we hear, that...the Grand Master and Wardens [for the Free Masons] and most of the Gentlemen present took Tickets to appear in White Gloves at...Drury-Lane, this Evening, where the Play of Henry IV. Part II is to be acted for their Entertainment; and it is said a Prologue and Epilogue will be spoken suitable to the Occasion, and in Honour of that Society

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Ivth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): James Messink

2757
09 March 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law

Related Works
Related Work: The Mother-in-Law; or, The Doctor the Disease Author(s): James Miller

Music: A new Overture, and an entire new Sett of Act Tunes, compos'd by Seedo

Dance: Le Watteau by Miss Robinson. Black and White loak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss Latour. Hussar by Nivelon and Miss Robinson. Revellers, as17340220

Performance Comment: Black and White loak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss Latour. Hussar by Nivelon and Miss Robinson. Revellers, as17340220.

2758
04 April 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: I: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. III: Black and White Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. IV: Revellers by Miss Latour and others. V: Dutchwoman by Miss Robinson

Performance Comment: III: Black and White Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. IV: Revellers by Miss Latour and others. V: Dutchwoman by Miss Robinson .

Song: II: Quanto dolce, duanto care by Miss Arne

2759
16 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: Sir Harry-Ryan; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Younger; Standard-Quin; Smugler-Hippisley; Beau Clincher-Chapman; Clincher Jr-Neale; Vizard-Hale; Dicky-James; Lady Darling-Mrs Martin; Angelica-Mrs Buchanan; Parly-Mrs Laguerre .
Cast
Role: Dicky Actor: James

Dance: II: The Nassau, as17340117 IV: Pigmalion, by Malter, Mlle Salle, &c

Song: I: In the Anacreon Stile by Leveridge. III: A Chacon a Boire by Leveridge. V: The Black and White Joke to Bacchus and Venus by Leveridge and Laguerre

Performance Comment: III: A Chacon a Boire by Leveridge. V: The Black and White Joke to Bacchus and Venus by Leveridge and Laguerre .

2760
01 May 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Dance: I: Harlequin by Maker. II: The Nassau, as17340117 III: French Shepherd and Shepherdess by Maker and Mlle Salle. V: Pigmalion: Pigmalion-Maker; Statue-Mlle Salle; others by Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde

Song: I: English Cantata by Mrs Wright. IV: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

Performance Comment: IV: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre .

2761
02 November 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 2 Nov.: No place is full but the Opera; and Farinelli is so universally liked, that the crowds there are immense. By way of public spectacles this winter, there are no less than two Italian Operas, one French play house, and three English ones. Heidegger has computed the expense of these shows, and proves in black & white that the undertakers must receive seventy-six thousand odd hundred pounds to bear their charges, before they begin to become gainers. Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

2762
15 November 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: I: A Grand Serious Dance by Denoyer and Mlle Roland. II: Revellers by Essex and Mrs Walter. In: A new Comic Dance by Denoyer. IV: The Black and White Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. V: A Grand Comic Dance by Poitier and Mlle Roland

Performance Comment: II: Revellers by Essex and Mrs Walter. In: A new Comic Dance by Denoyer. IV: The Black and White Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. V: A Grand Comic Dance by Poitier and Mlle Roland .

2763
11 June 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As 10 May, But Decius-boman

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. In: Black and White Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. V: Amorous Swain, as17350327

Performance Comment: II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. In: Black and White Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. V: Amorous Swain, as17350327.

Song: IV: As17350603

2764
16 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Pierrots by Delamagne and Villeneuve. III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter .

2765
04 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Mason's Dance by Delamayne. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. After Epilogue: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

Performance Comment: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. After Epilogue: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c .

Song: I: The Enter'd Prentice's Song: Come let us Prepare. III: On, on, my dear Brethren. V: Sing then my Muse

2766
05 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Pit and Boxes put together. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 May: There was an exceeding great Audience, and great Numbers of Quality both in the Boxes and Pit. Their Highnesses' Box was handsomely ornamented with white Damask, adorn'd with Silver Laces and Fringes; over the Canopy was the Figure of Hymen, with a Label on which was this Motto: Concordia Cordium. Daily Journal, 6 May: The House was so full about Five o'Clock, that several Gentlemen and Ladies, unable to go to their Seats, was obliged to depart

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

2767
06 November 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Pit and Boxes put together at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 8 Nov.: The Box in which their Royal Highnesses sat, was of white Sattin, beautifully Ornamented With Festons of flowers, in their proper Colours, and in Front was a flaming Heart, between two Hymeneal Torches, whose different Flames terminated in one Point, and were surmounted with a Label, on which were wrote, in Letters of Gold, these Words, Mutuus Ardor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

2768
10 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Harrington, White, and Evans (Boxkeeper). Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Mad Welchman Actor: James

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun; Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

2769
25 August 1742 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: A three Act Comedy. Godwin's Booth, opposite the White Hart, near Cow Lane, West Smithfield. From Noon to 10 p.m. [Notice repeated 26 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Intriguing Footman; Or, The Spaniard Outwitted

Dance:

2770
20 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets deliver'd out for As You Like It will be taken. Tickets to be had of Stephens at the Jar, opposite Red-Lion St., Holborn; of Mr Johnson, at the White Hart in Paternoster Row; and at the stage door next Bow St. where places may be taken. Last Night Shakespear's play of King Henry the Fifth, was performed at Covent Garden, with the many incidents that are applicable to the present Juncture of Affairs with France, occasioned the whole to be receiv'd with an uncommon Applause.--General Advertiser, 21 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life Of King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: Queen of France Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17440404

2771
30 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Marten, Carr, White. All tickets exposed for sale at the doors of the theatre will be an imposition on the Publick for an effectual method will be taken to prevent their admittance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124; Dance-Cooke

Song: TTo Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson

2772
30 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Marten and White

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: James
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17450423

2773
18 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Bought 3 yds white Gauze & 2yds of Lace for a veil for Mrs Pritchard in Jane Shore... 14s. Receipts: #120 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Tom Thimble Actor: James

2774
14 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). [Tickets as of 9 Feb., with additional note that they could be obtained of Mrs Payne at the White Hart in Paternoster Lane.] Receipts. #140 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

2775
17 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, and White (Treasurer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister; also the Drunken Peasant-Phillips