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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.

626
21 February 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #55 17s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #20 15s. 6d. Paid Rich on account #421 (Account Book). Receipts: #166 17s. 5d. (Account 8ook)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: As17601216

627
24 February 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #28 6s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #109 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

628
05 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #37 15s. Paid Ledlay for 10 doz. wax candles #15. 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #156 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

629
12 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #64 2s. 6d. Macklin's fifth above charges came to #25 14s. 7d. (Account Book). Receipts: #191 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: As17610309

630
28 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #19 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #91 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

631
04 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #19 10s. [Macklin seems to have received nothing for this performance as receipts did not equal the house charges of #63.] Paid Rich on account #100 (Account Book). [The treasurer's balance at beginning of Benefit season, 24 March, was #731 7s. 10d. It had now dropped to #201 17s. 2d.] Receipts: #55 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Ballet: TThe Hungarian Gambols. As17610309

632
18 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #15 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #57 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

633
20 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #14 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #92 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

634
21 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #10 (Account Book). Receipts: #41 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

635
15 June 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Full prices. No money returned after curtain is drawn up. Vivat Rex. [A. Murphy and S. Foote joined a partnership and rented dl theatre from Garrick for summer performances (Genest, IV, 616). For Gentleman, Miller? See Winston MS 9.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

636
03 May 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 7 p.m. By Authority (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Entertainment: CCries of Edinburgh-Lauder, by Desire

Dance: Middlemist

637
06 July 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Ninth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Diversions Of The Morning

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17630704

638
12 December 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Dance: Middlemist

639
14 September 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places may be taken from Johnson at the Stage Door. No money will be taken at the stage door. None will be refunded after Curtain is drawn up. To begin at 6 o'clock. [Footnote not further noted. Garrick on his return from the continent first introduced a method of illumination by lights not visible to the audience, thus replacing the huge chandeliers (Genest, V, 86). Published this season, A Critical Balance of the Performers at Drury Lane last Season, a broadside sheet at 1s., printed for C. Moran. This scale of the following twelve values war applied to 43 actors and actresses: (A score of 20 under each heading was perfect.) Figure; Grace; Spirit & Ease, Sensibility & Truth; Dignity & Manners; Expression & Pantomime; Low Humor; Genteel Humor; Elocution and voice; Dress; Dumb show; Noise. Beside each actor was listed his outstanding parts. (See Copy in Huntington Library.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

640
25 February 1766 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6:30. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Continues until 15 March with some variations.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Supplement

641
04 March 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cure Of Saul

Music: CConcerto on German Flute-Florio; Violin Solo-Barthelemon

642
16 September 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No money taken at the Stage Door, nor any after the Curtain is up. Door open by 5 o'clock. Play begins at 6 o'clock. [Customary note repeated on all bills.] [This month publish'd A Letter to David Garrick on the opening of the Theatre, in which with great freedom he is told how he ought to behave, by H. W. The thesis of the pamphlet: The decline of dramatic genius is owing in great measure to your management (p. 16). "What I would earnestly recommend to you is to represent as many new plays as possible, and let them stand or fall on their own merit."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

643
27 May 1772 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17720518

644
17 May 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 7:00 p.m. The Thirtieth Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: The Medley-Giorgi's scholars

645
16 May 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Admittance behind the Scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. To begin at 7:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: End: Giorgi's scholars

646
20 May 1776 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No admittance behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Doors to be opened at 6:00 p.m. To begin at 7:00.Servants to keep places to be at the House at 5:00 p.m. [Note repeated on subsequent bills and will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: The Merry Lasses-

647
03 March 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Song: End Part I: an Italian duet see17790310by Vinci Tu vuoi ch'io vivi o cara-Mrs Barthelemon, Miss Cecilia Barthelemon

Music: End Part II: concerto on the violin-Barthelemon

648
05 June 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Event Comment: Boxes 3/. Pit 2X. Gallery u. To begin punctually at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Tickets to be had and Places taken of Waldron, No. 17, Dorville's Row. The Company will perform on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Nobody by Villars; End of mainpiece Freedom and his native Land by Price

649
12 November 1707 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: the best Masters

650
06 February 1711 @ Clerkenwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens