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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.

3651
26 February 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hamoche, Mrs duBreuil, duBreuil, and Romagnezi. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Ou, Le Comte D'essex

Afterpiece Title: Le Cocher Suppose

3652
02 March 1722 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Benefit Pietro. Boxes and Pit half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

3653
16 March 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Benedetti Baldassary, Servant to the Elector Palatine. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

3654
24 April 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3655
25 May 1722 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Pit and Boxes by Tickets only at 5s. Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Music: The best Masters

3656
20 August 1722 @ Richmond

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A new Dramatick Entertainment. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Benefit Penkethman. N.B. The Boxes will be illuminated with Wax Candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Distress'd Beauty; Or, The London Prentice

Dance: Dutch Dance between a Dutch Boor and his Frow-Newhouse, Mrs Willis; French Peasant-Newhouse, Miss Francis; Drunken Man-Harper

Song: The Dame of Honour, Mimick Song in Praise of a Country Life-Mrs Willis; Mrs Boman

3657
07 November 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes together at half a guinea each ticket [not to exceed 350 tickets). Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

3658
11 January 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Author. As 9 Jan. London Post, 14 Jan.: At which there was as numerous an Audience as has for this great while been seen; not only the Boxes, Pit and Galleries, but the Stage too being crowded with Spectators

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Forest

3659
23 February 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. Daily Journal, 25 Feb.: There sate in the Box with his Majesty the Countesses of Darlington and Sturember, the Audience was exceedingly great, and the Performance was very satisfactory

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

3660
02 March 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: money #64 2s. tickets #119 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

3661
06 March 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Atkins. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Concerto-Kytch

3662
13 March 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Isabella Chambers, Scholar to Mrs Margarita. Pit and Boxes at 6s. Gallery 3s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

3663
20 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Turner Robinson. Tickets half a guinea. Gallery Box 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Overture for French Horns, Hautboys, and Violins by Gasperini-; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson; Concerto by Corelli-Castrucci, Claudio, Pepo; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson; Solo for Hautboy-Kytch; Cantata by Handel-Mrs Robinson; New Concerto with French Horns by Handel-; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson

3664
23 March 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Subscription. Afterpiece: A new Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing in Burlesque Characters. With new Scenes, Machines, Cloaths, and other Decorations. N.B. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes but by Subscribers' Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Theatre at 7s. each. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: subscription and money #111 18s.; tickets #33 19s. [For an essay on the afterpiece, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post. 6 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa; or, The Intrigues of Harlequin

3665
02 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Seymour. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: money #39 15s.; tickets #122 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

3666
04 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. No Persons to be admitted into the Front Boxes or behind the Scenes, but by printed Tickets at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: As17221012

3667
04 April 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Pieto. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

3668
05 April 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit an unfortunate Gentleman. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Concerto-Kytch

3669
14 May 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. By Reason of the shortness of the Opera, to begin exactly at Eight a-Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flavius

3670
24 May 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Clegg, a Youth of Nine Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Ireland. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Violin-John Clegg; Concert-Kytch

3671
19 October 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed Tickets at 5s. Receipts: #130 14s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa; or, The Intrigues of Harlequin

3672
26 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

3673
20 December 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A New Dramatick Entertainment in Grotesque Characters. N.B. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed Tickets which will be deliver'd at the Door at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #162 1s. London Journal, 28 Dec.: 'Tis said, they had not less than 260l. in the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

3674
14 January 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Ariosti.] Pit and Boxes half a guinea (not over 340 tickets). Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vespasian

3675
15 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives