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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.

4301
05 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Goodfellow. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

4302
07 February 1745 @ New Wells, Mayfair

Event Comment: At Shepherd's Market. [Usual concert formula.] 6 p.m. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

4303
09 February 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A new Pastoral Opera. [Really a pasticcio. Text-Vanneschi; some music by St. Germain (Burney).] Pit and boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'incostanza Deluza

4304
25 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a distress'd Gentlewoman. Boxes 3s. Pit & First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4305
26 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Daniel. [Prices return to Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s.] Tickets of Mrs Daniel at Mrs Cliff's, in Buckle St., near the Lead House, Goodman's Fields; Cardmakers Arms in Gray's Inn Passage, Red Lion Square; King Harry's Head, Red Lion St., Goodman's Field

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

4306
09 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Garrick. Boxes and Pit laid together at 5s. Victor to Garrick: My closest attention was never more commanded than by you last night in Othello....I was most inclined to fear for you in your address to the Senate, but there, even there, you excelled your present rival (Quin) whose merit lies chiefly in declamation-I found you had very judiciously applied your study to the great and striking passages in the character--the trance had a fine effect, your manner of falling into it, and recovery from it, was amazingly beautiful...it would be ridiculous to doubt of your ability to act this part in the utmost perfection; but to arrive at that point there are some things to be done.--Genest, IV, 147

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Dance: II: Muilment

Song: III: A Cantata-Lowe

4307
25 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Haughton. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. 1st gallery 1s. 6d. Upper gallery 1s. Tickets at Miss Haughton's Lodgings, at Mrs Simpson's, Church Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

4308
30 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Woffington. Part of the Pit will be rail'd into the boxes. Tickets deliver'd out for the 12th will be taken. Afterpiece: written by MacSwiney and never performed [Premiere at dl on 29 March 1705]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, Love's the Physician

Dance: IV: Dance-Muilment

4309
01 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit L. Hallam. Boxes 2. 6d., Pit and Gallery 1s. 6d., Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

4310
06 May 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Plummer [Box-Keeper]; Curryer Pit Office-Keeper]; Baker [Pit Door-Keeper]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Song: I: Cantata-Lowe; III: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne

Dance: II: Muilment; IV: Sga Bettini

4311
09 May 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 6 p. p.m. Last Time of Acting. No latter account will be taken. Prices Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. [The troupe will re-open the theatre on 20 May and present pantomimes all summer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

4312
10 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan, Powell, Gardiner [Box Keepers]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Cooke, Picq, LaLauze; Also Scotch Dance, as17441012

4313
13 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lawrence and Evans (Box Keepers), and Gwinn (Pit Door-keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni; Also Scotch Dance, as17450507

4314
19 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Places for Boxes to be taken of Hobson, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: Lowe, Mrs Arne

4315
21 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. [Colin and Phebe written by Moore and composed by Arne. Constantly encored all summer at Vauxhall (Burney, History of Music IV, 668).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Song: II: Lowe; V: Dialogue call'd Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne

Dance: III: Muilment

4316
27 September 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Shakespear. Music compos'd by Lampe. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

4317
19 December 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Containing an account of that notorious Pretender in the Reign of Henry VIII. Aith a short account of Lambert Simnel, a Pretender to the Crown, fostered in like manner by Richard Simon, a Priest of Oxfordshire, with many other Historical passages, similar to the present times [and a synoptic account of the play follows]. A reviv'd Historical Play (not acted in the Memory of Man, and written by an anonymous author, in Shakespeare's Style).--Daily Advertiser, 18 Dec. Prices, Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. [These prices continue.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perkin Warbeck

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

4318
30 December 1745 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit or First Gallery 1s 6d. 6p.m. Luna will light you home. Benefit Warner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

4319
10 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This day H. L. in an article in the Westminster Journal (quoted in the Gentlemen's Magazine, p. 21) offered a plan for taxing theatre tickets, as a source of government revenue, on a pro-rated basis--Box ticket a stamp tax of 1s; Pit a Stamp of 9d; 1st Gallery 6d; Upper Gallery 3d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Lowe; IV: New Duet-Mrs Clive, Lowe

Dance: IV: Tambourine-Miss Mechel

4320
14 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Prices: Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. in both Daily Advertiser and General Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: Brett

Dance: As17460101, but Mock Minuet, Hornpipe-Banberry

4321
05 February 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hooper. Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: Joseph Granier, Polly Granier, Jack Granier

4322
10 March 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece alter'd from Dryden by Colley Cibber. Not acted these 30 years [see 27 April 1722]. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage, which will be inclos'd and form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Clive, at her House in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and of Hobson at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers; Or, Marriage A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: III: Italian Peasants, as17460206 IV: Shepherds Dance-Muilment, Desse, Miss Scott

Song: V: A New Scotch Dialogue-Lowe, Miss Edwards

4323
22 March 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Hallam Sen and Mrs Bainbridge. Positively the Last night of playing this season. [On Easter Monday this house will revert to tumbling and pantomime and rope dancing.] Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets delivered out by Bourn, Laws, and Toole will be taken this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Song: Miss Joneswho never appear'd on any stage before

4324
02 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. Mainpiece: At the desire of several Ladies of Quality. Two rows of Pit will be laid into the boxes. Ladies desired to send their servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: New Grand Ballet-Cooke; II: Drunken Tyrolese-Cooke; V: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Sga Campioni

4325
23 April 1746 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Gluck, composer of the operas at the King's Opera House in the Haymarket. Pit and Boxes together Half a guinea, Gallery 5s. 6:30 p.m. Tickets at Prince of Orange Coffee House in Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert