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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Box"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Box")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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8100 results for: Keyword - Mr Box
We found 6775 matches on Event Comments, 1160 matches on Performance Comments, 555 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3526
30 March 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by MacSwiney. Music adapted by N. Haym. Premiere.] By subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3527
23 April 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Admission to boxes and pit by subscribers' tickets only; gallery 5s., upper gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3528
04 June 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Boxes 7s. 6d. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. No Person to stand on the Stage, or come behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3529
14 January 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Encouragement of the Comedians Acting in the Hay-Market, and to enable them to keep the Diversion of Plays under a separate Interest from the Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscription Tickets. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Cibber (II, 4-5) states that each subscriber received three tickets for the first day of each of three plays offered by subscription for a payment of three guineas.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

3530
21 January 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

3531
04 February 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber.] Never Acted before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [In the preface to The Double Gallant Cibber states that in Marriage a la Mode he joined "the Comical Episodes of the Maiden Queen, and Marriage alamode...the Alteration cost me but six days trouble; and not calling it a new Play, we found the Town very favourable to it."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode; Or, The Comical Lovers

3532
04 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Joseph Addison. Music by Thomas Clayton.] A new Opera never yet perform'd. By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [Both A Critical Discourse upon Operas (1709) and Jacobs (I, 3) refer to the unsatisfactory nature of the music; as a result, according to Jacobs, "It had not the Success due to its Merit."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

3533
15 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By subscription, as 4 March, but the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

3534
17 April 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Valentini. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Triumph

3535
12 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

3536
15 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 5 Jun., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

3537
19 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. And (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) the Boxes are to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by printed Tickets, which are deliver'd by him. [Ch. Dering, writing to John Percival, stated that Nicolini got 800 guineas.-Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

3538
22 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

3539
27 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3540
29 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3541
02 February 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3542
05 February 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: Dumirail, lately arriv'd from the Opera at Paris

3543
09 February 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Dance: As17090205

3544
12 February 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes. [In Daily Courant, 11 Feb., Pyrrhus and Demetrius had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3545
19 February 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3546
23 February 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

3547
26 February 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

3548
08 March 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes. From this day until Easter, 24 April, there are no performances on Wednesday and Friday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

3549
10 March 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt, Two Benches of the Pit being Rail'd in to the Boxes for the Conveniency of the Persons of Quality who have taken Bounty Tickets. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth, Part I

3550
17 March 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes. [According to Ch. Dering, it was "acted expressly for Lord Marlborough." See Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla