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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.

3401
24 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton. Tickets at Haughton's, at the Wheatsheaf in Little Russel Street, cg. Daily Advertiser, 24 March: An Order having been sent to Mr Giffard, forbidding all Performances on Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent, Mr Haughton was oblig'd to defer his Benefit to this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance:

3402
20 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King Actor: Roberts.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

Music: Vocal Parts [for Macbeth]-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs James, Mrs Wright, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

3403
15 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or Earl Of Essex

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale, as17420212

3404
25 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226

3405
29 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: First King of Brentford Actor: Roberts
Role: Second King of Brentford Actor: Harrington
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: A New Pierot Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste

3406
30 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; Louvre, Minuet By Particular Desire,-Mr Lally, a young Gentlewoman (a scholar of Mr Lally) who never appeared on the stage before

3407
15 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Beard; IV: Lowe

3408
14 February 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion Queens

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

3409
08 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval

3410
14 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

3411
16 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

3412
21 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: Italian Gardeners, as17421231

Song: III: Beard

3413
22 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Tambourine-Cooke; Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305

3414
22 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

3415
24 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: I: Les Matelots-Cooke; III: A French Peasant-Cooke; IV: Grand Ballet, as17421108; V: a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

3416
02 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

3417
09 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Song: IV: Stella and Flavia-Beard

3418
11 April 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17430217, but Prue-Miss Hippisley, from the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; Snap-Freeman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bambridge; Nurse-Mrs Haughton; Jeremy-Miss Royer; Epilogue [kindly sent to his [Milward's] Widow the Night before by the Gentleman who wrote The Man of Taste [James Miller]-Cibber. (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.)

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

3419
14 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper, as17421025; II: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; III: Grand Ballet, as17421108; IV: Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407 V: (By particular Desire) a Louvre, Minuet-Lally, Mlle Anne Auretti

3420
15 April 1743 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turnbridge Walks Or The Yeoman Of Kent

Song:

Dance: *c1703 04 15 js *c1703 04 15 js t Mrs Careless. Those Ladies and Gentleman who have taken Places, are desir'd to send their Servants early; and (for fear of a Mistake) to take Notice, that the Playhouse adjoins the Tennis-Court. Tickets for The Beggar's Opera taken

3421
06 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Song: I: Beard; III: Lowe; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: Serious Dance, as17430504; V: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129

3422
18 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Dance: II: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129; IV: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

3423
15 November 1743 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana Or Alexander In India

3424
07 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

3425
05 March 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills
Role: Player King Actor: W. Giffard

Dance: Muilment, Mrs Auguste