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5846 results for: Keyword - King of Bauday
We found 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

651
24 March 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Mainpiece: Not acted for 8 years. [See 17 May 1760.] Afterpiece: By Desire. Part of Pit laid into Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-King; Antonio (that night only)-Barry; Bassanio-Holland; Old Gobbo-Parsons; Gratiano-Palmer; Lorenzo-Vernon; Launcelot-Wingfield; Portia-Mrs Dancer; Nerissa-Mrs Jeffries; Jessica-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Shylock Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: King, Palmer, Cautherly, J. Palmer, Hurst, Fawcett, J. Burton, Mrs Barry, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Hopkins. With a Prologue-
Role: Shatterbrain Actor: King

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220

Entertainment: End: By Desire, the Favourite Interlude of Linco's Travels, with his remarks on London-King

652
16 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Shylock Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680220; IV: By Particular Desire, The Medley (Not perform'd these 3 years)-Shuter, Mrs King

Entertainment: End: Linco's Travels-King with his Particular remarks on London

653
22 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr King. Part of pit laid into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: Glib-King; Sir Toby Fuz-Love; Patent-Packer; Carpenter-Moody; Sir Macaroni-Dodd; Wilson-Palmer; Prompter-Bannister; Housekeeper-Johnston; Shepherds-Dodd, Parsons, Hartry, Fawcett, Kear, Messink; Orpheus-Vernon; Rhodope-Mrs Baddeley; Sweepers-Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love; Miss Fuz-Miss Burton; Lady Fuz-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Glib Actor: King

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17690926

Entertainment: LLinco's Travels-King (with considerable alterations and additions) His remarks on England and the Jubilees

654
31 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Daigville, Sga Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King, Sga Daigville.

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Martin-King; Item-Wright; Linger-Parsons; Saville-J. Aickin; Caveat-Hartry; Myra-Miss Platt; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Johnston; Lucetta-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: Wit's Last Stake Author(s): Thomas King

655
26 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Widow of the late Miles. Tickets deliver'd for King Lear will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: III: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House, as17710412 IV: A Minuet-King, a Young Lady, his scholar

656
17 February 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Cast
Role: Mortimer Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Saville-J. Aickin; Mrs Watchly-Mrs Cross; Martin-King; Linger-Parsons; Caveat-Hartry; Item-Wright; Myra-Miss Platt; Lucetta-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Martin Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: Wit's Last Stake Author(s): Thomas King

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

657
18 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Merryfield, King, Dumay and Curtat. Receipts: #35 16s. (Account Book). Charges #81 10s. Deficit to each #11 12s. 1 1!2d. cover'd by tickets: @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Dumay 149 128 81 #64 11s.@King 92 145 71 #51 17s.@Merryfield 136 94 62 #54 6s.@Curtat 71 161 149 #56 16s.@Total 448 528 363 #227 10s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: Minuets, Cotillons-Merryfield, Dumay, King, Curtat, Mrs Invill, Miss Bassan, Miss Matthews, Mrs Hartle; End I Farce: A New Dance-Rudd, his 1st appearance any stage Miss Matthews

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady (with Sixfold Hornpipe). As17740512

658
06 July 1774 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: The composition of the drama with the characters of the King, Prince of Wales, Hotspur, and Falstaff will be particularly illustrated. [This is Kenrick's School of Shakespeare; repeated 9, 16, 20 (Falstaff's Wedding and Merchant of Venice), 29 (Cozeners and Falstaff's Wedding).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On King Henry Iv, Part I

Song: To keep my gentle Jessy-DuBellamy; Where the Bee sucks-Miss Wewitzer

659
26 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Hussey, King and Merrifield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: A New Dance call'd The Nosegay-Rudd (2nd appearance), Miss Matthews [See dl 27 April 1767]; IV: Minuets, Allemandes, Cotillions-Dumay, Hussey, King, Merrifield, Miss Matthews, Miss Brown, Miss Ross, Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, a young Lady[, scholar to Dumay [See17740518]; End: The Enchantress, as17750201

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

660
17 September 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage-door. No Money to be taken at the Stage-door, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors will be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 4 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Monologue [1st time, probably by Thomas King. MS: Larpent 602; synopsis in London Magazine, Sept. 1782, 437]. Receipts: #200 4s. (170/14/0; 29/7/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby-King ; Sterling-Parsons; Sir John Melvil-Bensley; Lovewell-Brereton ; Serieant Flower-Wrighten ; Traverse-Phillimore; Trueman-Norris ; Canton-Baddeley ; Brush-Palmer If Miss Sterling-Miss Pope ; Fanny-Mrs Brereton ; Chambermaid-Miss Collett ; Betty-Mrs Love ; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins .
Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Minuet de la Cour by the Miss Stageldoirs

Monologue: 1782 09 17 End of Act I of mainpiece a Dramatic Oglio by King

661
26 December 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by Thomas King. MS not in Larpent; not published; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 27 Dec.]: With Variety of new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. With a Grand View of the Cumberland Fleet sailing for the Cup, and a Song and Chorus in Honour of the Institution. To conclude with a Pageant Rural and Pantomimical. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] The Music partly new and partly compiled [by Thomas Linley Sen.] from the best Masters. The Paintings by Greenwood and other eminent Artists. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Account-Book, 17 Feb. 1783: Paid King in full for Harlequin's Wedding #47 1s. Receipts: #231 (225/10; 5/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

662
26 December 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Kemble's 1st appearance as Osman was in Dublin (Genest, VI, 295).] Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by James Cobb and Thomas King]: Partly formed on the Plan of the Italian Comedy, and embellished with Music and Machinery. The paintings by Greenwood. The Music compiled and composed by Linley [Sen.]. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Books of the Songs [which assign no parts], Introduction, &c. to be had at the Theatre. [Synopsis of action in Universal Magazine, Dec. 1785, p. 335.] Account-Book, 31 Jan. 1786: Paid King for Hurly-Burly #165. Receipts: #181 2s. (174/17; 6/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well

Related Works
Related Work: Hurly-Burly; or, The Fairy of the Well Author(s): Thomas King

Dance: In afterpiece, by Hamoir, Williamson, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Sutton, &c. [The dance was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

663
10 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss George. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 3 Aug. 1784]. Public Advertiser, 4 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Miss George, No. 23, King-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Song: End I: a new song by Master King In vain do idle vi'lets blow (Public Advertiser 14 Aug.)-Miss George; End: Mad Bess (for that night only)-Miss George

664
30 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Tickets delivered for the 24th of April will be taken. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets [for 24 Apr.] to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 7, King-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Richard Steele. 3rd piece [1st time; ENT I, author unknown. Larpent MS 830; not published]. Receipts: #253 17s. 6d. (159.12.0; 8.9.6; tickets: 85.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Saint George's Day; or, Britons Rejoice

Song: End 3rd piece: God save the King-; with Grand Accompaniment [on the organ]-Greatorex [, as performed at the Oratorios see17890320

665
13 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ballet: 1st Time [at this theatre. The two Miss Simonets were from the king's.]. With new Scenes and Dresses. Receipts: #119 9s. 6d. (113.6.6; 6.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcella

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End afterpiece: A Grand Ballet of Action, as performed at the King's Opera House in the Hay-market [most recently in season of 1787-88] The Deserter[. Principal Characters-Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets (1st appearance [at this theatre])

666
18 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The School for Scandal, but "The Public is most respectfully informed that, in consequence of the sudden indisposition of King, The School for Scandal is unavoidably postponed. This Evening [will be acted] The Heiress" (printed slip attached to BM playbill (Burney 937.c.II)). Thespian Magazine, Feb. 1793, p. 193, also notes this change.] Receipts: #131 15s. (82.15; 45.8; 3.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Song: Probably as17921016

667
25 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and Barrymore. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Valentine to Barrymore and Scandal to Bensley, but "previous to the play an apology was made for the appearance of Whitfield in Valentine, as Barrymore had undertaken Scandal, in consequence of Bensley's being afflicted with a violent hoarseness" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 2).] Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 21, King-street, Bloomsbury; of Barrymore, No. 11, Bedford-street, Bedford-row. Receipts: #447 10s. (95.19; 43.16; 6.1; tickets: 301.14). (charge: #159 0s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

668
15 May 1794 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The original Music [of the TE DEUM] is in two Scores, MS., one of them in the possession of the King of Naples, and the other in that of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by whose gracious condescension the use of this Score will be allowed for that night. The new Organ, built by Green (organ-builder to his Majesty) for the new Subscription Room, will be played upon this occasion by Greatorex. Boxes to be taken of Rice. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 7:00. To begin at 8:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selec Tion Of Music From The Most Eminent Masters

Afterpiece Title: THE GRAND TE DEUM, composed by Paisiello, upon the return of his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, from Vienna to Naples, in the summer of 1791

669
10 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for King Richard the Third [Account-Book: by Brandon, Arnold, Little, Brice, Blurton, Bonsor, Hay, Haseler, Lloyd, Berecloth, Savory, Noble, Linton, Castelle, Atkins] will be admitted. Receipts: #484 14s. 6d. (51.0.6; 3.14.0; tickets: 430.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-Blurton, King, Mrs Watts

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

Song: Vocal Parts, as17950309but Mrs _Blurton; In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Mountain; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke

670
17 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Shotter, Wyatt, Waller, Gawdrey, Ratchford, the Band, Coombes, Page, Wilkins, Robson (door-keeper), Warwhick, Dosel, Paskin, Wells, Ansell, King will be admitted. Receipts: #467 13s. 6d. (67.10.0; 3.14.0; tickets: 396.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor

Cast
Role: King Edward III Actor: Farren

Dance: Afterpiece: With a Treble Hornpipe-Ratchford, King, Mrs Ratchford

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

671
06 June 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Lloyd, W. Bayzand, Timkins (box-keeper), Street, Barnes, Morris, Rye, Dosel, Wells, King, Timkins (carpenter), Thompson (near Stage), Coates, Roberts, Thompson, (gallery door-keeper) will be admitted.] Receipts: #419 1s. (38.16; after-money: not listed; tickets: 380.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimick

Dance: End: a Scotch Reel-Bayzand, King, Mlle St.Amand

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

672
14 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widows and Orphans of those brave Men who perished, and those who were wounded, in the Glorious Action of the 14th February last [see king's, 18 May.] Patrons: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, His Royal Highness Duke of York, His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Stewards: Duke of Leeds, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl Spencer, Lord Kinnaird, Charles Grey Esq., Thomas Tyrwhitt Esq., Wm. Lushington Esq., Wm. Manning Esq., John Thomson Esq., John Julius Angerstein Esq. Boxes to be taken, and Tickets had at the Office of the Theatre, and at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee-House. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: End: Peggy's Love (By permission of the Proprietors of the king's Theatre)-Mme Rose, Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Hilligsberg; End afterpiece: Cupid and Psyche-the same.Mme Rose, Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mlle Hilligsberg

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding 1st ballet: [a favorite Epilogue-Mrs Abington (1st appearance on this stage these 8 [recte 7] years)

673
25 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer and Russell. Morning Chronicle, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 12, King's Row, Pimlico; of Russell, No. 8, Broad-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #507 15s. 6d. (111.13.0; 69.19.6; odd and after-money: 11.6.0; tickets: 314.17.0) (charge: #219 12s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Kemble, Barrymore, King, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Walcot.
Role: Sir Adam Contest Actor: King.
Related Works
Related Work: Wit's Last Stake Author(s): Thomas King

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: V: a song, as17990214

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Picture of a Play House; or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer; Vaudeville II 3rd piece: Military Manoeuvres-; The Dead March-; the Ceremony Shooting a Deserter-

674
03 January 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for a Gentlewoman. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Afterpiece: Written by Thomas King, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:30. The Public may be assured that the principal Performers in the above play and farce are Persons accustomed to the Stage, and that the utmost Attention will be paid to the credit of Performance. Tickets delivered by Mrs Lefevre and Blackburn will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Related Works
Related Work: Wit's Last Stake Author(s): Thomas King

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

675
24 May 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Bernard. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, author unknown. Larpent MS 909; not published]: With proper Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Music entirely new, composed by M. P. King. Morning Chronicle, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Bernard, No. 35, Bow-street. Receipts: #299 2s. 6d. (120.10.6; 11.8.0; tickets: 167.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: Primrose Green; or, Love in the Country

Related Works
Related Work: Primrose Green; or, Love in the Country Author(s): Matthew Peter King

Dance: After Monologue: The Jockies, as17910507

Song: End II: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Dissertation on Hobby@Horses: The Statesman's Hobby; The Soldier's Hobby; The Beau's Hobby; The Lady's Hobby; The Fidler's Hobby; Mrs Mountain's Hobby; The Manager's Hobby; and His Own Hobby-Bernard