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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.

4901
20 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 7 May 1766.] Charges #74 4s. Balance to Woodward #82 7s. plus income from 190 Box tickets, #47 10s.; Paid Williams 3 nights performing the Bells, #1 2s. 6d., and Gard & Singleton 3 nights for perfoming in the Lyon 7s. 6d. each (Account Book). Receipts: #156 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

4902
24 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Afterpiece: Not played for 8 years. [See 11 April 1765.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady Never in Paris

4903
26 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Part of pit laid into boxes. ["On 25 March Mrs Baddeley set off for Dublin, induced by her husband's behaviour" (Winston MS 10, from Dr Burney's News Clippings). But she was advertised as singing the part of Rhodope in the afterpiece the night of the twenty-sixth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17690926

4904
26 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Balance to Shuter #109 8s., plus #85 17s. from tickets (Box 200; Pit 239). Woodward, Mrs Yates and Smith paid their balances (Account Book). Receipts: #174 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II: The Lamplighters, as17691005; II of the Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid Dance=, as17691111

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-; Epilogue Riding upon an Ass-Shuter

4905
27 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Mainpiece: Not acted in 10 years. [But see 24 April 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: IV: The Rabbit Sellers, as17691228

4906
29 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Part of Pit laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

4907
29 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #68 14s. Balance to Bensley #81 17s. plus #63 13s. from tickets (Box 221; Pit 56). Balances to Shuter and Yates paid (Account Book). Receipts: #150 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere. [See17680307.

4908
31 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Mainpiece: Never Acted There. [Thomas Southerne's play adapted by Garrick. See bill 4 May.] Afterpiece: With New Introduction and Conclusion [see Harlequin Statue or the Jealous Farmer Outwitted, 20 May 1765] but with Music, Scenes and Decorations adapted to the whole. Charges #65 6s. Balance to Mrs Bellamy #53 6s. plus #113 4s. from tickets (Box 316; Pit 228) (Account Book). Receipts: #118 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer Outwitted

Dance: II: The Reel, as17700329

4909
03 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Balance to Dyer #22 11s. plus #158 6s. from tickets (Box 434; Pit 232; Gallery 150) (Account Book). Receipts: #87 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End Opera: The Whim, as17691123

4910
18 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Thompson. Charges #69 19s. 6d. Deficit to Mrs Thompson #14 1s. 6d. covered by income from tickets (barely) #17 2s. (Box 21; Pit 79) (Account Book). Receipts: #55 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: III: A Minuet-Fishar, Mrs Thompson

4911
19 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Tickets deliver'd by Clarke for Friday the 19th Instant will be taken. [Some mistake seems to have been made in the printing of his tickets.] Charges #66 6s. Balance to Clarke #24 15s. plus #144 13s. in tickets (Box 344; Pit 281; Gall. 165) (Account Book). Receipts: #91 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17700402

4912
21 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pinto. Charges #64 10s. Balance to Mrs Pinto #32 3s. 6d. plus #57 from tickets (Box 119; Pit 139; Gallery 64) (Account Book). Receipts: #96 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Music: I: A Concerto on the Violin-Fisher

Dance: II: The Whim, as17691123; III: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist

Song: I of the Farce: Sweet Bird composed by Handel, sung-Mrs Pinto, accompanied by Fisher

4913
23 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibson. Charges #69 7s. Balance to Gibson #33 15s. 6d., plus #26 13s. from tickets (Box 39; Pit 88; Gallery 37) (Account Book). Receipts: #103 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Reel, as17700329

4914
24 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 Years. [See 18 Nov. 1766.] Charges #64 5s. Balance to Mrs Ward #67 18s. plus #28 13s. from Tickets (Box 33; Pit 84; Gallery 78) (Account Book). Receipts: #132 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favorite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. and Double Hornpipe. As17700420

4915
25 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Dunstall #9 6s. plus #168 9s. from tickets (Box 364; Pit 419; Gallery 146) (Account Book). Receipts: #73 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17700402

4916
26 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #65 17s. Deficit to Hull #17, covered by #121 3s. from tickets (Box 233; Pit 280; Gallery 209). Paid Hull for The Garland, The Spanish Lady and Altering the Comedy of Errors #50. Paid Miss Mary Twist and Miss Charlotte Twist for walking 12 nights in Man and Wife #1 10s. apiece (Account Book). Receipts: #48 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Song: II: The Blackbirds, a Cantata-Miss Potts

Dance: End: The Reel, as17700329

4917
27 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Baker. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Deficit to Mrs Baker #5 5s. 6d., covered by #50 1s. from tickets (Box 62; Pit 149; Gallery 122) (Account Book). Receipts: #59 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: II: The Wapping Landlady. Double Hornpipe, As17700420

4918
28 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Charges #70 1s. Balance to Mrs Lessingham #24 4s. 6d., plus #92 8s. from tickets (Box 200; Pit 170; Gallery 169) (Account Book). Receipts: #94 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

4919
30 April 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: To begin (by Desire) by seven. Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Second Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashion Display'd

4920
01 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Charges #64 10s. Balance to Aldridge #50 1s. plus #62 14s. from tickets (Box 120; Pit 152; Gall. 99) (Account Book). Receipts: #114 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: I: By Desire, a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; II: [Not performed this season, The Tambourine-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere [see17671119]; End Opera: [A New Pantomime Dance call'd, The Old Ground Young-Aldridge, Master Lion, (his scholar) Miss Twist; [with, By Particular Desire, an Allemande-Aldridge, Miss Twist

Song: I of the Farce: In the Shady Blest Retreat-Mas. Lion

4921
02 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Mrs Green #16 9s. 6d. plus #42 12s. from tickets (Box 93; Pit 85; Gallery 66). Receiv'd Hamilton's and Redman's deficiencies for last season (Account Book). Receipts: #80 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End Opera: The Dutch Dance, as17691111

4922
03 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles. Charges #73 16s. Balance to Miles #47 14s. plus #119 7s. from tickets (Box 226; Pit 331; Gallery 132). Williams, Gard & Singleton rec'd customary Pay for performing the Bell and the lion in the Pantomime [see 15 Feb.] (Account Book). Receipts: #121 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: III: A Minuet-King, Miss Twist; IV: The Tartars, as17691207

4923
03 May 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. By Authority and at the particular desire of Several Persons of Distinction. Boxes Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amintas

Music: I: Concerto on Hautboy-Fishar; II: Sonata on Violincello-Duport; First Violin, a Concerto-Barthelemon

4924
04 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Tenducci advertised to play Arbaces for "positively the last time this season."] Tomorrow Isabella; or, the Fatal Marriage [which seems to indicate Garrick's adaption]. Charges #73 11s. Balance to Reinhold #55 15s. 6d., plus 90 10s. from tickets (Box 259; Pit 127; Gallery 67) (Account Book). Receipts: #55 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: I: The Dutch Dance, as17691111; II: The Old Ground Young, as17700501; Allemande, as17700501

4925
04 May 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Sga Frasi. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. To begin at Twelve. Doors open at 11:00 a.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: FFirst Violin, Solo-Giardini; Solo on Violin@Cello-Duport