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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.

4851
03 June 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick, Furkins, Wilkinson, Abbott, Symonds, and others. Tickets deliver'd by Pullin, Claridge, Mrs Griffiths, Bagg, Bassan, Stephenson and Constable will be admitted. [Green and Ansell paid up their deficiencies for 2 June.] @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value 1!2 Value@Quick 1 20 31 #8 18s. #3 9s.@Furkins 12 52 34 #13 6s. #6 13s.@Wilkinson 27 10 16 #10 3s. #5 1s. 6d.@Abbott 5 56 65 #16 12s. #8 6s.@Simmonds 5 36 24 #8 9s. #4 4s. 6d.@Pullen 2 71 46 #14 10s. #7 5s.@Claridge 8 24 1 #4 11s. #2 5s. 6d.@Griffiths 20 27 #6 1s. #3 6d.@Bagg 36 24 #7 4s. #3 12s.@Bassan 5 50 16 #8 13s. #4 6s. 6d.@Stephenson 23 78 45 #20 6d. #10 3s.@Asbury Gallery 22 8 #3 8s. #1 14s.@Total House value #120 1s. plus the receipts.@ Paid Master Harris for his performance this season #4 4s. Receipts: #25 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Stede, 2nd time (scholar of Fishar)

4852
13 August 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The favourite comic Opera...Music by Piccini. Pit and Boxes 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Upper gallery 3s. To begin at 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

4853
01 October 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Doors By Particular Desire will be opened at Five. The Play to begin exactly at Half an Hour after Six. Played for the King of Denmark. [The anecodote is recorded by Genest, V, 237, that the king fell asleep. Annoyed, Mrs Yates, playing Alicia, drew near his Box and with violent exertion of voice cried out in her part "O Thou False Lord!" The King aroused declared he would not be married to a woman with such a voice for the world. The London Evening Post, however, for 10 Oct. states, "Mrs Yates had the greatest honour done her, after playing Jane Shore, by the King of Denmark going to her and thanking her for the pleasure she had given him." (Winston MS 10).] Receipts: #157 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

4854
06 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Third Day. For the Author. Charges #64 12s. (including extra Kettle drum, Side drum, and candles). Balance to author #107, who also had 121 Box Tickets from which he receiv'd #30 5s. Total value of the House that night #201 17s. Receipts: #171 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

4855
13 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's 2nd Night. House Charges #64 12s. Balance due author #94 3s. plus income from 89 Box tickets #22 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #158 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

4856
19 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's 3rd Night. Charges #64 12s. Balance due author #114 12s. 6d. plus income from 38 Box tickets #9 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

4857
20 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benfit towards the increase of a Fund (Established by the Performers of this Theatre) for the support of such actors, and their families, who from Age or Infirmities, shall be oblig'd to quit the stage. Charges #65 7s. 6d. [including candles, extra kettle drum, side drum, organ and tabor & pipe]. Balance due Fund #101 17s. 6d. plus a special income of #17 13s. from 64 Box tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #167 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

4858
22 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Westminster New Lying@In Hospital near Westminster Bridge. Charges #85 15s. Balance due to Hospital #21 7s. plus #140 9s. income from 332 Box 273 Pit and 165 Gallery tickets (Account Book). Total House value #247 11s. Receipts: #107 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: The Provenzales, as17681123; IV: The Reel, as17681212

4859
03 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Porters at Several Inns of Courts their Christmas Boxes #3 11s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #229 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

4860
02 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The profits arising from the Entertainment will be applied to a Fund for opening an Academy the purpose of which will be the teaching of the English language Grammatically and the art of writing and speaking by rule. There have been Stoves kept constantly burning for days past, in order that the Theatre might be thoroughly warmed; Curtains also will be put up in the boxes. To begin at 7 p.m. Playhouse prices. By the Desire of many

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Attic Evening's Entertainment

4861
03 February 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund established for the Support of decayed Musicians and their Families. Pit and Boxes put together at Half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Expenditure for past year #653 9s. Towards relieving the proper beneficiaries.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Between the acts: a Concerto on the Hautboy-Fisher; solo on the Violin-Pinto

4862
11 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock. Charges #66 19s. Balance to Woodward #87 16s. 6d. plus #65 15s. from 263 Box tickets (Account Book). [The proposed afterpiece, Dr Schomberg's burlesque tragedy, The Rival Favourites; or, Death of Bucephalus the Great (Public Advertiser, 4 March), had been sent to the Licenser 27 Feb., had been cast, and put in rehearsal, but was dropped and never played there. It had been done in Edinburgh in 1765. Larpent MS 293 is the Edinburg edn. The rivals are Statira and the Horse, Statira bribes Alexander's physician to kill Bucephalus.] Receipts: #154 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

4863
13 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Afterpiece: By Desire. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Doors open at 5 o'clock. Play to begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: V: New Comic Dance, as17681210

4864
14 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210. *u•Ndl End: Linco's Travels. Linco-King; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw (With Linco's particular remarks on London)

4865
18 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Tickets for Isabella will be taken. Part of pit laid into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: V: New Comic Dance, as17681210

4866
18 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pinto. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Advertisement for Younger's General History of the stage, repeated. Charges #74 9s. Balance to Mrs Pinto #77 4s. 6d. plus #93 14s. from Tickets (Box 300; Pit 98; Gallery 40) (Account Book). Receipts: #151 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Tartars, as17681004

4867
27 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. By Particular Desire. Part of pit laid into boxes. Tickets deliver'd for Cymbeline will be Taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

4868
28 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. Afterpiece: A Farce in 2 Acts, never acted, taken from George Dandin by Moliere. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: No Wit Like a Woman's

Dance: End: Pantomime Dance, The Lilliputian Camp, as17680922

4869
28 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Afterpiece: Written by Aaron Hill not acted these 20 years. [See 17 April 1750.] Tickets deliver'd for the Distrest Mother will be taken. Charges #65 10s. Balance to Mrs Bellamy #86 11s. Plus #116 11s. from Tickets (Box 330; Pit 227). Paid the Italian Giant for 10 Nights performance in the Masquerade #38 17s Receipts: #152 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

4870
31 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Charges #66 8s. Balance to Mrs Mattocks #65 19s. plus #45 17s. in Tickets (Box 130; Pit 89) (Account Book). Receipts: #132 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Reel, as17681212

4871
04 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Afterpiece: Never Perform'd There. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Mrs Bulkley #26 13s. 6d. plus #90 18s. in tickets (Box 252; Pit 186). Receipts: #90 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17680920; End: A Minuet-Fishar, Mrs Bulkley

4872
05 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Thompson. The Happy Discovery cannot be performed because of Indisposition of Mrs Mattocks. Charges #65 1s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Thompson #88 plus #40 4s. from tickets (Box 123; Pit 63) (Account Book). Receipts: #153 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: A Minuet-Fishar, Mrs Thompson; End Act I of the Afterpiece: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

4873
07 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Dyer #4 3s. plus #143 1s. from tickets (Box 383; Pit 234; Gallery 122). Paid Music Porter as per bill 10s. 6d. Receipts: #68 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Song: II: A Song-DuBellamy

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

4874
11 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dibdin. Part of pit laid into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: III: The Wake-, as17680929

4875
11 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibson. Charges #69 11s. Balance to Gibson #65 7s. plus #29 14s. from tickets (Box 48; Pit 118) (Account Book). Receipts: #134 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, with Double Hornpipe, as17690408