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6481 results for: Keyword - King</i> sent a letter to $<span class=
We found 2642 matches on Performance Title, 2627 matches on Performance Comments, 2285 matches on Event Comments, 25 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3201
13 January 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr C. Cibber. [For a letter on the affairs of dl, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 13 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

3202
17 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a long critique, see St. James's Journal, 22 Nov. (in a letter dated 18 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

3203
21 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. See also A Letter to Mr John Gay on his Tragedy call'd The Captives (1724), by Elizabeth Harrison, who attended a performance during the initial run

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

3204
25 February 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter on opera, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 25 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

3205
11 March 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. Receipts: #42 9s.; tickets #123 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 42 by money and 226 by tickets; stage, 12 by money; pit, 75 by money and 255 by tickets; slips, 5 by money; first gallery, 92 by money and 285 by tickets; second gallery, 40 by money. [For a letter on pantomime, chiefly at lif, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Louvre-Glover; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; French Sailor-Salle, Mlle Salle

3206
29 April 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a long letter on operatic affairs, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 207-8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

3207
10 February 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter concerning dl, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 10 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

3208
01 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #153 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 180 paid and 10 orders; stage, 26 paid; balcony, 5 paid; Pit, 289 paid and 2 orders; slips, 53 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 424 paid; second gallery, 200 paid and 3 orders.[For a letter on this play, see Daily Journal, 1 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

3209
23 March 1728 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter on opera, see London Journal, 23 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

3210
30 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 214 paid and 1 order; stage, 51 paid; pit, 297 paid and 2 orders; slips, 66 paid; first gallery, 426 paid; second gallery, 198 paid. [For a letter on this play, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 30 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

3211
29 January 1729 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLa Staffetta Italian or The Italian Post, 30 Jan., has a letter, dated 26 Aug. 1728, concerning music in London

Performances

3212
12 March 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Grant, a Mercer. Receipts. #15 19s.; tickets #119 9s. See also a letter by Mrs Pendarves, in Delany, Autobiography, I, 199-200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Barbier, Mrs Wright, Mrs Seedo, Mrs Chambers; Solo on German Flute-Festing

3213
23 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. [Grub St. Journal, 23 April, has a leading article and letter on this play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

3214
23 February 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See letter of Aaron Hill to Mallet, 23 Feb., in Hill, Works, I, 97-100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice

3215
20 March 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A New Scot's Opera. [By Joseph Mitchell.] All the Habits entirely New. [See a letter by the Author in Daily Advertiser, 20 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Highland Fair Or Union Of The Clans

3216
16 November 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: The Letter Sign'd J. K. was receiv'd by Mr Giffard, and the Request shall be comply'd with if the Person thinks fit to make himself known

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: As17311104

3217
04 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For an amusing account of the performance, see Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 69. Hervey's letter is dated 4 April 1731 by the editor, but 4 January 1732 must almost certainly be the correct date

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

3218
03 June 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a comment on the season's operas, see See and Seem Blind...In a Letter from Lord B-to A-H-Esq. (London, 1732), part of which is reproduced in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 300-301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Papirius

3219
21 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter on The Covent Garden Tragedy, see Daily Post, 21 June

Performances

3220
05 December 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

3221
28 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a discussion of theatrical problems, see a letter from Hill to Booth, in Hill, Works, I, 176-78

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

3222
26 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #51 6s. [See Daily Advertiser, 26 March, for a letter from Francis Nivelon to the author of The Married Philosopher, to be acted on 27 March for the benefit of Nivelon.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers

3223
05 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On proposals for the future of Drury Lane, see a letter from Hill to Victor in Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 188-91

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

3224
07 June 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For two lengthy letters on the Patentees vs. The Players, see Grub St. Journal, 7 June

Performances

3225
05 July 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a discussion of the Drury Lane problem, see a letter from Hill to Highmore, 5 July 1733, in Hill, Works, I, 188-92. For Hill's intention of bringing on a play in the summer of 1733, see the preface to his Filial Pity, 1760

Performances