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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.

4726
06 May 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: To begin at one o'clock. Places for the boxes to be taken at the Theatre. The Fourth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

4727
11 May 1762 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund established for Decay'd Musicians, or their Families. Pit and Boxes to be put together at Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. Tickets delivered to Subscribers to this Charity will admit one Person into any Part of the House. [#627 7s. 6d. expended during the past year.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

4728
20 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Box-Keepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: III: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; End: Les Charboniers, as17611012

4729
20 May 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Aynscombe who because of illness is incapable of waiting on his friends personally. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

4730
28 July 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. For the Entertainment of the Cherokee King and Chiefs. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Care will be taken to keep the house cool. The last time of performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

4731
01 September 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Boxes 5s. Pit 4s. Gallery 3s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

4732
03 September 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At Yeates' Theatrical Booth, Greyhound Inn, during the time of Bartholomew Fair. The whole to be decorated with decency, and propriety, together with a grand Band of Music, consisting of French Horns, Violins, Trumpets, Hautboys, &c. N.B. There is a convenient Way to the theatre in Cow Lane for coaches, where Ladies and Gentlemen may have admittance without interruption. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. Upper 6d. [Several persons had provided booths in the Inns at Smithfield to perform Drolls and Interludes, as had been customary for many years, and were preparing to exhibit accordingly; but the City Marshall and other officers, by order of the Lord Mayor oblig'd them to take down their Shew Cloths and decamp (Morley, Memoirs of Bartholemew Fair).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Trial Scenes Of The Cock Lane Ghost

Afterpiece Title: Tars of Old England

Entertainment: Exhortation of the Little Lilliputian Squire Hum, a child of five years old. TheGrand Hornpipical Balletin the taste and after the manner of Mrs Vernon and Miss Nancy Dawson,-a young lady

4733
08 December 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

4734
17 December 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for The General Lying In Hospital, By Particular Desire of the Foreign Ambassadors and others of the Nobility. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes, where Servants will be allowed to keep places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: CComic Dance, as17621210

4735
08 March 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority Benefit for Lauder. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

4736
15 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 30 March 1761.] Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by 3 o'clock. That there may be no interruption in the Performance, Mrs Cibber begs leave to assure those Ladies and Gentlemen who shall please to honour her with their company, that there will be no Building upon the Stage, nor any admittance behind the scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson

4737
17 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: For last time this Season. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted (playbill). [See 6 April 1763. Smith's Skit is Larpent MS 222, in which each of the seven ages is acted out and accompanied with generalized comment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: After: The Humours of the Age Imitation of Shakespeare's Stages-Smith

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

4738
22 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5 shillings. Servants will be permitted to keep places in the Pit; and those Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken Places in the Pit are desired to come as soon as possible

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: The Dutch Skippers, as17630101; II: The Catalonian Marriage, as17630308

4739
24 March 1763 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga DeAmicis, who will present it [the afterpiece] in its own natural beauty, such as it originally came from the hands of the ingenious author Sig Pergolesi, and as it was first done at Naples, in order to give the Nobility and Gentry the most favorable idea of so masterly a piece. Pit and Boxes to be put together at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Tutore E La Pupilla

Afterpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Dance:

4740
26 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. No building on Stage. Afterpiece not acted these 10 years. [See 19 April 1750.] Last time of company's performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: End: The Camp Alarm'd-Vincent, Miss Baker

4741
09 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer. Pit and Boxes laid together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: A New Comic Dance, as17630224; The French Gardeners, as17630407

4742
25 April 1763 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Benefit for the Fund for Decay'd Musicians. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Expended in past year #593 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

4743
29 April 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker, and Saunderson (machinist). No Building on Stage. [The Theatrical Review; or, Annals of the Drama (Volunteer Manager section for 1 May 1763, p. 212) comments upon a stage tradition of having the Mouse Trap" Play presented on stage with the players' backs to Claudius and Gertrude. The author wishes Garrick and Beard to revise this absurdity and bring the whole in more accord with reality. The same paper criticises Mrs Cibber as Ophelia. "I hope you will not let so flagrant an outrage to the decorum of the stage as the following pass unnoticed. As [Mrs Cibber] sat upon the stage, with Hamlet at her feet, in the third act, she rose up three several times, and made as many courtiess, and those very low ones, to some ladies in the boxes. Pray good Sir, ask her in what part of the play it is said that the Danish Ophelia is acquainted with so many British Ladies?" See similar comment on her Belvidera, 17 March 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

4744
24 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Condell, Green (box-keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

4745
25 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans, Ansell , Potter (box-keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: IV: The French Gardeners, as17630407

4746
20 June 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comedy. To begin at seven. Prices [as of 6 July]: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: Rogier, Miss Capitani; III: Double Hornpipe-Rogier, Miss Capitani

4747
26 November 1763 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A serious Opera...the Musick composed by several eminent Masters. All new Dances; and New Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Pit and Boxes laid together 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. and no Person admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the door. By His Majesty's Command, no Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin 6:30 p.m. [Giardini the new Impresario; Spilsbury-treasurer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleonice

Dance: Director of the Dances Sg Pietro Sodi

4748
24 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: No building on Stage. Part of pit laid into boxes. Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #242 6s.; charges: #61 4s. (MacMillan).[Profit to Mrs Clive #181 2s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Song: II: Vernon; accompanied by the Guitar-

Dance: TThe Provancalle, as17631014

4749
24 March 1764 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. [Giordini beings subscription campaign in the Public Advertiser for boxes for ensuing season by a note at foot of each bill.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Nell' Indie

Dance: As17640320

4750
27 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 14 April 1758.] Receipts: #247 10s. (Winston MS 9); #247 (MacMillan); Charges: #64 4s. [Profit to Holland: #182 16s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922