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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.

4601
18 September 1760 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Shuter's Great Theatrical Tiled Booth on the Bowling Green. Scenes and Habits entirely new. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each day at twelve o'clock. An excellent band of music is provided, consisting of Violins, Hautboys, Trumpets, Kettle Drums, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

4602
25 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: BBritish Chronicle, 25 Sept.: Last Wednesday the King, Queen and Royal Family went to Covent Garden to see The Beggar's Opera with a [directive?] of the fitting up of the Box (Winston MS 9)

Performances

4603
13 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Only #11 2s. 6d. in the Boxes (Account Book). Receipts: #82 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd-Sg and Sga Maranesi

4604
14 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Only #6 5s. in the Boxes (Account Book). Receipts: #36 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: Comic Dance call'dThe Cossacks-Sg and Sga Maranesias17601010

4605
15 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: No Persons to be admitted behind the scenes. Boxes: #9 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #79 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: As17601013

4606
21 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Boxes: #25 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #116 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17601011

4607
21 November 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Majesty. The first night the King went to the play, which was civilly on a Friday, not on the opera night, as he used to do, the whole audience sang God Save the King in chorus. For the first act, the press was so great at the door that no ladies could go to the Boxes, and only the servants appeared there, who kept places: at the end of the second act the whole mob broke in and seated themselves; yet all this zeal is not likely to last, though he so well deserves it (Walpole to Montagu, 24 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

4608
22 November 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Libretto by Goldoni; Music by Galuppi. A new comic Opera. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Pit and Boxes Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command No Persons admitted behind the Scenes [Repeated. The 1760 Libretto of Arianne e Teseo calls for Prologue to be sung by Signora Mattei on this night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mondo Nella Luna

Dance: New DancesDirector of Dances-Gherardi; Dancers-Mlle Asselin, Gherardi, Miss Polly Capitani, Tariot

4609
27 November 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Musical Entertainment of Thomas and Sally is by particular desire oblig'd to be deferr'd till tomorrow. Boxes #8 2s. 6d. Paid Hewetson 4s. for Powder to clean lace (Account Book). Receipts: #83 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17601013

4610
29 November 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. The Minor is deferr'd on account of Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Boxes #35 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #157 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

4611
01 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. Boxes #31 10s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #154 18s. 8d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

4612
02 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. [N.B. Winston MS 9, indicates from Rich's Register that Henry V was played this night by Royal Command. Playbill for 4 Dec. lends credence to this as it states Not Acted this season." For cast of Henry V see 18 Nov. TheAccount Book clinches the matter by listing Henry V with Dancing, and an indication that the Boxes this night held #70 5s., or some 281 people.] Present His Majesty and Attendance. House gave Yeomen of the Guards the usual gratuity of #1 1s. [Rich also paid that night #1 1s. for an Occasional Prologue for Henry V for 18 Nov. last, and #2 2s. for an occasional prologue to Thomas and Sally for 28 Nov. (Account Book).] Receipts: #210 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

4613
03 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. Boxes #25 5s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #88 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

4614
04 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. Mainpiece: Not Acted this Season. [See note, 2 Dec.] Boxes #17 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #105 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

4615
05 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out by the author of Thomas and Sally will be taken this night. [Bickerstaffe took in #85 6s. in ready money and #12 18s. from tickets (Boxes 12; Pit 18) Total #98 4s.] Paid Dibdin for singing 5 nights in Thomas and Sally and 1 night in Romeo #1 10s. (Account Book). Charges #64 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: II: As17601014

4616
08 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Boxes #77 13s. (Account Book). Receipts: #218 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4617
13 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: No Money to be return'd after the curtain is up. Boxes #37 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #122 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

4618
18 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilkinson. Receipts: #113 10s. 6d. plus #64 13s. from Tickets (Box 163; Pit 118; Gallery 62) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Entertainment: By Desire, Lady Pentweazle's Scene from the Comedy Taste, Lady Pentweazle-Wilkinson; Carmine-Davis

Dance: LLes Charboniers-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

4619
29 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The column for receipts from Boxes is left blank (Account Book).] Receipts: #166 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4620
01 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. [Receipts from boxes not analysed this day.] Receipts: #162 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4621
02 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 19 Jan. 1758.] Tickets deliver'd out for 2nd of January will be taken tomorrow. Boxes #66 15s. Macklin's fifth of the surplus above #63 for House charges, #24 1s. Paid Bedwell & Freeke, Braziers, sundry bills from April 1757 to March 1760: #60. (Account Book). Receipts: #183 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Ladies Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: A Minuet-Miss Macklin, Poitier; Dances [unspecified]-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

4622
03 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out for the 2nd of January will be taken. [Full value from these tickets amounted to #33 7s. (Box 74; Pit 99). House receiv'd half value paid 14 Jan. by Mrs Young "for the benefit of a Gentleman under Misfortune." Sg Maranesi and his wife (as a team) receiv'd a pay increase of 6s. 8d. per day from 29 Dec. 1760, and Mrs Burden received an advance in her salary of 1s. 8d. per day from the same date (Account Book).] Receipts: #114 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

4623
05 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Boxes #74 12s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #215 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4624
12 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Boxes #86 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #224 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

4625
15 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Tragedy of Alexander is oblig'd to be deferr'd till further notice. Boxes #42 12s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #175 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine