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911 results for: Keyword - Messrs Robinsons
We found 456 matches on Performance Title, 298 matches on Performance Comments, 221 matches on Event Comments, 5 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
29 November 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Nobody

27
15 June 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widow and three youngest Children of the late Dr Glover. [Dr William Frederick Glover, a surgeon, had died on 25 Feb. in straitened circumstances. A subscription--in behalf of which this Benefit was organized--had been set on foot for the relief of his family (see Gentleman's Magazine, Mar. 1787, p. 276). In the 1760's he was for some years an actor on the Dublin stage (see Tate Wilkinson, Memoirs, III, 198).] Tickets to be had at the Thatched-House Tavern, St. James's Street; at Free-Mason's Tavern, Great Queen Street; the Antigallican Coffee House, Royal Exchange; the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street; at Messrs Robinsons, booksellers, Paternoster Row; and of the Printer of the Morning Chronicle, Dorset Street, Salisbury Square. Received from Their Majesties for Box [for season] #70; from the Princess Royal for Box #35. Receipts: #127 11s. (125.5; 2.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Nina

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

28
17 December 1791 @ Pantheon, Oxford Street

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera; compsoed by Pietro Guglielmi; under the direction of Mazzinghi. Pit Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 precisely [see 14 Feb. 1792]. The Nobility and Gentry are intreated to give particular Orders to their Coachmen to set down and take up with their Horses' Heads towards Hyde Park. The Door in Blenheim Mews will be shut during the Performance and opened only for the Company to go in Chairs. Subscriptions are received at Messrs Ransom, Morland and Hammersly's, No. 57, Pall-mall. And the Nobility and Gentry are earnestly requested to send a complete List of the Subscribers to their respective Boxes as soon as possible, since (by express Orders) no Person, on any account, can be admitted without producing a proper Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Pastorella Nobile

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Lazzarini, Cipriani, the Messrs Lipparini, Sga Casentini, Sga Calvesi. Cast from libretto (H. Reynell, 1791): Il Marchese-Lazzarini; Don Calloandro-Cipriani; Don Polibio-Lipparini Sen.; Don Astianatte-Lipparini Jun.; Eurilla-Sga Casentini; Donna Florida-Sga Calvesi.

Dance: End I: a new Ballet Demi-Caractere, composed by D'Auberval, La Fontaine d'Amour-

Ballet: End II: a new Pantomimic, Anacreontic Ballet, composed by D'Auberval, L'Amant Deguise. Alcindor-Laborie; Ciane-Mlle Hilligsberg; Euphrosine-Mme Theodore D'Auberval; Satyre-D'Egville; Nymphs-Mlles Simonet; Cupidon-Mlle Menage

29
12 February 1762 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

30
10 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

31
14 April 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

32
24 May 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: II: New Dance, as17791126; End II afterpiece: The Coopers, as17800224

33
09 April 1715 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

34
21 March 1717 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Dance: deMirail's Scholar, Mlle Cerail

35
22 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

36
10 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: In I: Masquerade-; Dance-Giorgi, Blurton, Mrs Sutton. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent perfomances.

Song: Mainpiece: with the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Brown, Carpenter, Follett, Chaplin, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Scott, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Boyd, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt

37
26 January 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: Monologues End I: Bucks have at Ye All-Master Russell; End I afterpiece: an Address to the Ladies on the subject of Jealousy-Master Russell; Imitations End: of several Dramatic Characters-Master Russell

38
28 March 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

Afterpiece Title: The Orators; or, The School of Eloquence Dissected

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Song: Between Acts: an Italian song-a Young Lady [unidentified]

Entertainment: End III: Imitations-Young Gentleman [unidentified]

39
31 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Second; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, Damon and Musidora, by Harris, Miss Besford, and others

40
07 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Pigeon by Mrs Kennedy; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 05 07 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey by Edwin

41
27 December 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

42
28 December 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

43
29 December 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

44
30 December 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

45
31 December 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

46
02 January 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

47
03 January 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Song: As17961220

48
04 January 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Ballet: End I: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

49
05 January 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Coeur De Lion

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

50
06 January 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221