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14974 results for: Keyword - John Day
We found 11035 matches on Author, 3059 matches on Event Comments, 1992 matches on Performance Comments, 823 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

13001
01 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Two days ago a Letter [price 1s.] came out to Miss Nossiter in which Mrs Cibber is abu'd & tother greatly extoll'd. The Author has also fell foul upon Mr Murphy author of Gray's Inn Journal. It is wrote by one Morgan an Irish Gent: High words has pass'd at ye Bedford Coff. H. between him and Murphy & 'tis thought a Duel will be ye Consequence (Cross). [See The Authorship of a Letter to Miss Nossiter, Shakespeare Quarterly, January 1952, p. 69.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

13002
18 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Printed books of the opera will be sold at the theatre. Published this day at 1s. Lo Studente A La Moda, dramma comicogiocoso, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. With an English Translation. Sold by H. Woodfall...Where may be had Gli Amanti Gelosi, with an English translation. [Opera in there acts in Italian and French. Larpent MS 103. Altered from A. Polomba La Violante. Music by G. B. Pergolesi. Rich applied to the Duke of Grafton (9 Jan.) for license to perform it.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Studente A La Moda

Dance: Entertainment-[unspecified]

13003
26 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of the King (Cross). This day a new tragedy, entitiled Constantine the Great was read here to the actors for the first time. This piece is written by the reverend Mr Francis, from whose valuable translation of Horace it may be inferred that he is such a judge of all the graces of Language and every beautiful turn in writing, that it is not to be doubted but he will give the public a production abounding in elegancies. [See 23 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Studente A La Moda

Dance: As17540118

13004
28 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Nicolina Giordani [By Command of] the Duke and Princess Amelia (Cross). The Manager of Covent Garden being under a necessity of interrupting the run of the new Tragedy of Philoclea by a Command, and a Benefit for Sga Nicolina Giordini (which was settled before the coming out of that play) has been so obliging as to give the Author the choice of a day for his second benefit; and many of his friends having taken places for Tuesday, as that would have been his sixth night in course, the Author, lest they should be disappointed, has chosen Tuesday for his second benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi

Dance: As17531217

13005
11 February 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Comic Opera in Italian and French, 3 Acts (Larpent MS 107). Subtitle, O Sia, Il Finto Femmina. La Musica e del Sig Leonardo Leo, Maestro di Capella Napolitano (Edition of 1752, Amsterdam). [Rich had applied for license to Duke of Grafton 8 Feb.] This day at Noon will be publish'd at 1s. L'Amor Costante, Dramma Comico, pe Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lamour Costante

Dance: [Unspecified.]

13006
12 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Went off well (Cross). The Non-Juror oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mrs Pritchard's Indisposition. This day publish'd the Second edition of Boadicia, a Tragedy, as it is now acted at Drury Lane. By Mr Glover (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Knight of the Burning Pestle Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Knights of Malta Author(s): John Fletcher

13007
01 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Box and Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Pit and Boxes will be put together and no persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be delivered this day at the Office in the Theatre. Galleries opened at half an hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half past Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander Balus

13008
01 March 1754 @ New Wells, Lemon Street

Event Comment: [N+New Wells, Lemon St. Goodman's Fields.] As Church wardens and Overseers of the Parish of Whitechapel did lately receive Information, that several young Persons have exhibited Plays at Goodman's Fields Wells...that the said young Persons have actually met and rehearsed Plays on the Lord's Day, in Defiance of all Laws, Divine and Human; the said Churchwardens and Overseers, assisted by proper Authorities, went last Night to Goodman's Fields Wells, which they found vastly crowded, and having severly reprimanded the Performers, dismissed the Audience (Daily Advertiser, 2 March)

Performances

13009
04 March 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This day publish'd at 6d. The Story on which the new tragedy call'd Virginia, now performing at Drury Lane, is founded. Sold by W. Reeve in Fleet St. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Related Works
Related Work: Appius and Virginia Author(s): John Webster
Related Work: Appius and Virginia Author(s): John Dennis

13010
04 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Marina Giordani. Full Prices (Cross). A new Italian Comic Opera. The Music composed by Balthazar Galuppi. Ladies desired to send servants by Half an Hour after Three. This day publish'd at 1s. La Cameriera Accorta, Opera Comico, per Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English Translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cameriera Accorta

Afterpiece Title: Enterntainment

Dance: [Unspecified.]

13011
16 March 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The sixth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

13012
25 March 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Seventh Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

13013
28 March 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Decay'd and Antient Masons. The Brothers are desir'd to meet at the Day of Performance at the Five Bells Tavern in the Strand, at 4 p.m. Tickets to be had of Mr Lauder at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

13014
30 March 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Ninth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Fribble

Dance: BBurlesque Ballet-Timbertoe, Sga Mentoreni [as17540311

13015
01 April 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Tenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Fribble

13016
09 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Third Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540704 but The Cassey-_; Le Nee Galon-

13017
11 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fourth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540704 but The Cassey-_; Le Nie Jaloux-Sanbucio, Sga Remperino

13018
16 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Sixth Day. Nothing under the full price will be Taken during the whole performance. [Repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: Dancing, as17540711 Entertainment of Music and Dancing, as17540711 Le Nie Jaloux, as17540711 but +Attenino

13019
17 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Seventh Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540716

13020
18 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Eighth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540716 but Entertainment of Music and Dancing-_; The Old Woman's Whim-a company of Lilliputians

13021
23 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Ninth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory Or Mrs Midnights New Carnival Concert

Dance: As17540718

13022
26 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Tenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540718

13023
18 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. To begin each day at 12 Noon. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. During the time of the Fair the Town will be entertain'd with an excellent droll, The Distress'd Merchant...Mr Phillips has been at great Expense in getting proper Machinery, Habits, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Merchant Or The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin or Fribble Trickd

Dance: Comic Dance,%Humours of Cloth Fair-

13024
20 September 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Public Advertiser includes this day a 78-line poem in octasyllabic couplets on J. Lewis's portrait of Mrs Woffington: @Her Shape, her Features, and her Dress@As far as colour can express@Friend Lewis' pencil has design'd:@Poet 'Tis yours to paint her mind...@ And the versifier proceeds to describe her as she affects audiences in the theatre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard the Third Author(s): John Caryll
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard III Author(s): John Caryll

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

13025
21 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each day at 12 Noon. Comedy never performed before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser Outwitted Or Phelim In The Suds

Dance: A Grand Dance in the British Manner-