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We found 13803 matches on Performance Comments, 4406 matches on Performance Title, 2429 matches on Event Comments, 73 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Written by Mr C. Shadwell. At Common Prices. Receipts: #39 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Purdon.

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Event Comment: At the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town and Corporation of Windsor. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At common Prices. Receipts: #60 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Anne Actor: Miss Stone

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. Three Benches of the Pit will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Denoye, Mrs Younger

Event Comment: As 3 Jan. At Common Prices. [The opening of the Summer Season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Author unknown.] A new Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. N.B. The printed Books for this Entertainment will be sold at the Theatre. Price 6d. Receipts: #116 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Union of the Three Sister Arts

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon, Glover, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Thurmond.] A new Grotesque Entertainment...in the Character of Harlequin, Mephostophilus, Scaramouch, Pierrot, Punch, and the Spirit of Helen. The whole concluding with a grand Masque of the Heathen Deities, (viz), Apollo, Mars, Bacchus, Mercury, Diana, Ceres, Flora, and Iris. All the Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations being entirely New. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. No Money (under the full Price) will be taken during the Time of the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: At the Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the Scenes, but by printed tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes. [The King and the Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Boxes, but by printed Tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in at the same Price. N.B. To prevent the Ladies from coming too early, Servants will be admitted to keep Places open on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. Two rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the same Price of the Boxes. Receipts: money #38 3s.; tickets #43 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Song: Mrs Barbier, Mrs Chambers, Leveridge

Music: Two Concertos-Master Clegg, a Boy of Nine Years old

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Concluding as usual with a Grand Masque of the Heathen Deities. No Money (under the full Price) will be taken during the Time of the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea or The Country Wedding

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Otway. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd Or A Plot Discoverd

Song: As17241008

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #62 14s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Magician or Harlequin a Director

Song: TThree Children on the Ice-

Event Comment: At the Desire of several of the Inhabitants of Cripplegate Parish, This present Tuesday, and no more, at the Castle Tavern without Cripplegate. Price 1s. 6d. or 1s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Scene of The Spanish Fryar

Song: New Song-Tony Aston in the Habit of a Fryar; other new comical songs-made this year at Tunbridge Wells

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Three Rows of the Pit (at the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen) will be Rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance:

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia Or The Magician Doctor With Harlequin King Of The Woods Flights Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin Cupid Pantalon Venus And Brighella Jupiter And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

Event Comment: The Lilliputian Theatre, Under the Direction of Mr Richardson...in Mr Hewetson's Great Room, the Upper End of Bow-Street, Covent-Garden. A New Opera. Price 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanter

Event Comment: By a Company under the Direction of Mr Aston. At the Front Long Room, next to the Opera-House in the Hay-Market. Price 2s. 6d. At 6 P.M. N.B. We perform henceforward on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Song: Between the Acts: New Comical Songs-; particularly A Dissertation on the Famous Beggar's Opera-

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of the King of the Cherokees, the Prince, the four Generals, and the young Captain, lately arrived from South Carolina. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #26 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Stage half a guinea. Receipts: #69 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Dance: As17321209

Event Comment: Whereas Thomas Arne, Jun. Proprietor of English Operas [at lif], has new set to Musick, after the Italian Manner, the Opera of Rosamond, Written by the late Mr Addison, Which is now in Rehearsal....This is to give Notice, that he...hoping to receive Encouragement from the Town, will (notwithstanding his Expences are considerably greater than any of the other English Theatres) Entertain the Town at the following Prices (viz) Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. And that he will give a private Rehearsal of the said Opera, to such Friends as shall oblige him with a Subscription...at One Guinea, to be paid on Receipt of a Ticket, which will admit the Bearer into the Boxes five Nights

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Morgan, Wetherilt. Being absolutely the last Night of the Company's acting this Season. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance:

Event Comment: At the Desire of the Learned in the Law. At the Apollo, within the Pope's Head, commonly call'd the Devil's Tavern. 6 P.M. Price 11. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tony Astons Medley His Comical Whimsical Nonesuch What Dye Mean Medley