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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.

1301
12 April 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. Written by Mr Congreve. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17241216

1302
04 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Person who has wrote for the Stage (Mr Froud). Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at 5s.Receipts: money #16 4s.; tickets #87 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Dance: SScots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

1303
11 March 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Karba, the famous Bassoon. By Her Royal Highness' Command. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consort of several Sorts of Instruments-

1304
16 November 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Wycherley. Receipts: #36 9s. Probable attendance: boxes, 37 paid and 21 orders; pit, 102 paid and 19 orders; slips, 5 paid and 14 orders; first gallery, 128 paid and 19 orders; second gallery, 80 paid and 9 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

1305
07 February 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: We are obliged to defer The Rape of Proserpine 'till farther Notice, on Account of the sudden Indispostion of Mr Rich. Receipts: #25 17s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 21 paid and 8 orders; Pit, 55 paid and 17 orders; slips, 11 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 107 paid and 17 orders; second gallery, 95 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance in the Character of a Clown-Nivelon; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock

1306
03 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Boheme. And the Flyings, Sinkings, and usual Decorations. N.B. Mr Boheme continuing indispos'd, the Tragedy of King Lear cannot be acted. Receipts: money #30 18s.; tickets #57 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 6 by money and 49 by tickets; pit, 59 by money and 246 by tickets; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 97 by money and 81 by tickets; second gallery, 51 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: With the usual Dances proper to the Play-; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

1307
07 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. Not Acted these Five Years. Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: money #27 2s. 6d.; tickets #70 9s. Probable attendance: boxes, 27 by money and 103 by tickets; stage, 1 by money; pit; 56 by money and 184 by tickets; slips, 3 by money; first galleygallery, 67 by money and 171 by tickets; second gallery, 50 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Song: TThe Lass of Patie's Mill-Miss Warren

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Fingalian Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; The Humours of Marriage-Salle, Mlle Salle

1308
12 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Receipts: money #33 17s.; tickets #58 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 66 by moeny and 106 by tickets; P1t, 69 by money and 167 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 33 by money and 68 by tickets; second gallery 13 by money. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 15 April: Wednesday died Mr Diggs, a noted Actor at the New Play-House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

1309
17 May 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Gwinn, Mrs Cook, Mrs Warren, Mrs Atkins. Written by the late Mr Wycherley. Receipts: money #11 3s. 6d.; tickets #186 6s. Probable attendance: boxes, 3 by money and 268 by tickets; stage, 12 by money; pit, 76 by money and 536 by tickets; first gallery, 15 by money and 389 by tickets; second gallery, 22 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle; Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

Song: Singing in English and Italian-Mrs Warren

1310
16 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #43 6s. Probable attendance: boxes, 23 paid and 13 orders; pit, 122 paid and 17 orders; slips, 11 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 122 paid and 12 orders; second gallery, 95 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Anna Bullen

1311
28 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 3 orders; stage, 28 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 273 paid and 3 orders; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 420 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 195 paid. Daily Journal, 28 Feb.: Whereas Mrs Barbier has advertized that the Beggar's Opera is to be performed, for her Benefit, on the 16th of March next; This is to inform the Publick, That such Advertisement was published without Consent of Mr Rich, and that the same will not be allow'd of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

1312
28 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets to be had at Mr Leveridge's in Tavistock-Street, to some Tune. Receipts: money #47 5s.; tickets #138 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 57 by money and 259 by tickets; stage, 66 by money and 40 by tickets; pit, 39 by money and 350 by tickets; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 100 by money and 113 by tickets; second gallery, 130 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: End I: Si Caro, Lass of Patie's Mill-Miss Warren; III: Plain Truth, Wheel of Life-Leveridge; IV: Ballad written, set to music by Leveridge-Miss Fenton; V: Merry Cobler's Tragical End At Last-

Dance: II: Peasant-Nivelon; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock

1313
22 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lacy, Pitt, Mrs Rice. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #4 10s.; tickets #87 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 3 by money and 76 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 4 by money and 261 by tickets; first gallery, 4 by money and 294 by tickets; second gallery, 18 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

1314
31 December 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Crokatt, Bookseller. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #25 5s. 6d.; tickets #98 17s. Probable attendance: boxes, 18 by money and 121 by tickets; pit, 52 by money and 398 by tickets; first gallery, 72 by money and 87 by tickets; second gallery, 81 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: SScotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; Les Vandangeurs-Moreau, Mrs Moreau

1315
07 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #21 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 9 orders; pit, 43 paid and 18 orders; slips, 4 paid; first gallery, 96 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 62 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

1316
10 February 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Samuel Madden.] Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 146 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 287 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 209 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 170 paid. Preface to 1729 edition: Yet, with all its Faults, I did not think this Piece deserv'd so severe Treatment, as to be peremptorily refused, after the most earnest and early Sollicitations, at the Old House for two Winters together; which however, I have the less Reason to complain of, since Mr Rich's great Civility, and the agreeable Action of most of his Company, have prevailed on all the unprejudiced Part of the Town, to have every Day a better Opinion of this Piece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

1317
06 May 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thomas Mountier, the Chichester Boy, who sung at Mr Smith's Concert in lif. At the Request of a great Number of Gentlemen and Ladies. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1318
20 August 1731 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Clarke, Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. 6d. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

1319
02 March 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. By Mr Johnson, Author of Hurlothrumbo. A Dramatic Every Thing. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blazing Comet: The Mad Lovers; Or, The Beauties Of The Poets

1320
17 May 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Handel. With all the Grand Chorus's, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations, being the first Time it ever was performed in a Theatrical Way. Pit and Boxes at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

1321
04 November 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by Pietro Metastasio. Done into English by Humphreys. Music presumably by Leonardo Leo.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 145-46. Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: There were present a very numerous Audience; and Signora Celeste Gismondi, who lately arriv'd here, perform'd a principal Part in it with universal Applause. We hear that this Opera was not compos'd by Mr Handell, but by some very eminent Master in Italy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

1322
16 November 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

1323
20 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A New English Opera after the Italian Manner. [Text by Henry Carey. Set to Musick by John Christopher Smith.] Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6 p.m. Receipts: For Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Teraminta

1324
07 December 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [The opening of Covent Garden Theatre.] Written by the late Mr Congreve. The Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations entirely New. And, on Account of the great Demand for Places, the Pit and Boxes, by Desire, will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. And to prevent the Scenes being crowded, the Stage Half a Guinea. All Persons who want Places are desir'd to send to the Stage Door (the Passage from Bow-street leading to it), where Attendance will be given, and Places kept for the following Nights as usual. Receipts: #115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

1325
23 February 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mahnpiece: A New Opera. Set to Musick by Mr Lampe. [Author of text unknown.] Afterpiece: a new Pantomime Entertainment. [Author unknown.] All the Dresses are intirely new. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dione

Afterpiece Title: The Usurer; or, Harlequin's Last Shift