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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.

3626
02 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Boxes and Pit by tickets only at half a guinea. Tickets for The Man of Mode taken. [An order of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 284, directs the managers not to allow any benefit before those for Mrs Oldfield and Mrs Porter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-

3627
19 February 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Front Boxes to be open'd to the Pit at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

3628
24 February 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit delaGarde's Two Sons. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Dance: Sultan and Sultaness-delaGarde's Two Sons

3629
07 March 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By His Royal Highness's Command. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Song: As17200213

Dance: Topham Jr

3630
08 March 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pack. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: delaGarde's Two Sons, Miss Francis; Comic Dance-Sandham's Son who is not Eight Years of Age, and never perform'd on any Stage before

3631
10 March 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. The Front Boxes railed into the Pit at 5s. N.B. To prevent the Ladies Waiting, none but the Gallery Doors will be opened till 5 a Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

3632
24 March 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. Pit and Boxes together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

3633
31 March 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Dance: Hussar-Shaw, Mrs Booth; Venetian Peasant-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

3634
02 April 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [By Paolo Antonio Rolli. The Scenes by Roberto Clerici, Engineer to the Royal Academy.] A New Opera. Pit and Boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

3635
29 December 1720 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of French Comedians. Pit and Boxes together by Tickets only at 5s. Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m. [This is the opening night of the New Theatre in the Haymarket.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille A La Mode; Ou, Le Badeaut De Paris

Dance:

3636
09 March 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. The Front Boxes and Pit together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance:

3637
13 March 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highness's Command. Admission to Pit and Boxes by Tickets only. Tickets for The Orphan taken or the Money returned

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: Shaw, Denoyer, Thurmond Jr, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

3638
14 March 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit C. Bullock. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. Three Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes at 5s. Receipts: money #26 1s. 6d.; tickets #71 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

3639
20 March 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Arlequin. Pit and Boxes by Tickets only at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux Pierrots

Afterpiece Title: Les Quatres Arlequins

Dance:

3640
29 March 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Sarah Ottey. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Harpsichord-Mrs Ottey

3641
25 April 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. Front Boxes and Pit by Tickets only at 5s. None but the gallery doors open until 5:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Dance: Shaw, Lally, Boval, Mrs Booth, Miss Tenoe, Miss Smith

3642
16 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs White, the Box-Keeper's Widow. Receipts: money #6 10s.; tickets #68 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle

Dance:

3643
02 August 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 8 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Vocal Music-a young Woman that never sung in Publick before; Solos-Matthew Dubourg, Kytch

3644
01 November 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes together by Tickets (400 Tickets only) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsaces; Or, Amore E Maesta

3645
09 December 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Rolli. Music by G. F. Handel.] A new Opera. Pit and Boxes at a half guinea. And in Regard to the Increase of the Number of Subscribers, no more than Three Hundred and Fifty Tickets will be delivered out. No Tickets will be disposed of at the Theatre, nor any Money taken there but for the Gallery. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

3646
13 December 1721 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

3647
26 January 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Gordon. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Vocal Music-Gordon; Cantata with Violins-Seignior Corpora , lately brought by him out of Italy

3648
12 February 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Front Boxes and Pit by the Author's Tickets at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris, King Of Aegypt

3649
15 February 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. There can be no Admittance to the Galleries, they being cover'd as formerly in the Balls. Doors open at 7:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ridotto

Music: Consisting of 24 Songs chosen out of the late Operas-Signor Francisco Bernardi Senesino, Signor Benedetto Baldassari, Mrs Anastasia Robinson, Signora Salvai

3650
17 February 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Receipts: money #86 2s. 6d.; tickets #52 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hibernia Freed