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7273 results for: Keyword - Mr Joseph Price
We found 4883 matches on Event Comments, 1422 matches on Performance Comments, 978 matches on Author, 565 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2501
21 August 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality.Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere and Intermingled with Songs. At Common Prices. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Phillips; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

2502
05 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere, and Intermix'd with Songs. At Common Prices. Stage half a guinea. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Serious Dance-Desse, Miss Oates; V: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Music:

2503
06 November 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: La Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Anne Roland

2504
08 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a discussion of raised prices for afterpieces, see Daily Gazetteer, 8 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: IV: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

2505
22 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh( and Colley Cibber Esq; Poet-Laureat. At Common Prices. 6 p.m. Receipts: #62 13s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband Or A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17400919

2506
06 November 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Nothing under the full Price will be taken during the whole Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits or Harlequin Worm Doctor

2507
13 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Desse

2508
19 December 1741 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

Performance Comment: Monticelli; Amorevoli; Visconti; Muscovita. [Robert Price to Thomas, Earl of Haddington, 19 Dec.--Deutsch, Handel, p. 528.]

2509
22 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Gentleman under Misfortune. Prices, as 21 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

2510
28 December 1741 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the French Theatre, over against the Opera House in the Haymarket, a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Boxes 4s. Pit 1s. 6d., Gallery 1s. 6d. Between the two Halves of the Concert will be presented...gratis. 6 p.m. Benefit a Tradesman. Afterpiece: By the Author of The Toy-Shop. [Note, This customary concert formula and the notice of time and prices will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pamela

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

2511
28 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular desire. At Common Prices. Receipts: #45

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Beard; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

2512
05 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #45

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Les Matelotes, as17411208; II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; III: A Hornpipe-Phillips; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

2513
01 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. 'Tis hop'd no Gentlemen will take it ill if they are not admitted behind the Scenes, either with Money or the Silver Tickets, it being impossible to go through the Performance, if the Passages are not kept open. [Notice and prices repeated through the run of the pantomime.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Englishman or The Frenchman Bit

2514
02 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Song with French Horn-Beard

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

2515
02 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: No Money under the full Price will be taken during the whole Concert [customary notice repeated during the run of the pantomime]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Englishman

2516
27 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: By Desire of Persons of Quality. [Prices 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. have now become the standard.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin

2517
22 September 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Play Written by Shakespear. The Principal Characters new dress.d, and the Theatre New Decorated. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby at 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. For the Better Regulation of the stage, it is desired that no persons will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. [The notice about time and prices remains constant throughout the season and will not again be noted here. The notice about refusal of admission behind the scenes appears on each bill till the benefits begin. It will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

2518
19 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Dramatick Piece being desir'd after the Play, the Prices (Latter Account) will be Boxes 2s. 6d. pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaffs Unburied Dead

2519
24 January 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Latter Account Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaffs Unburied Dead

2520
02 February 1743 @ James Street

Event Comment: By particular Desire, benefit a Family under Misfortunes and in great Distress. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6 p.m. Note, Those Gentlemen and Ladies that please to honour us with their Company, need not doubt of being well entertain'd and their Favours gratefully acknowledg'd by us, who are humbly petitioning for their Company and Interest, and for which we shall be in Duty ever bound to pray, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

2521
11 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Citizen. [Prices are Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. for the rest of the season unless otherwise recorded.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Welsh Buffoon, as17430107; End: Comic Ballet, as17430107

2522
23 March 1743 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cole, who lately belong's to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. A Concert, etc. Prices 4s., 2s. 6d. Tickets at the Peacock, opposite Exeter Exchange in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners (after the Manner of the Fausans)-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; The Medley a Joke-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

2523
30 March 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Fund for support of Decay'd Musicians, or their families. [Usual prices.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Music

2524
19 April 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: WWalpole to H. Mann 14 April: To be performed by three good voices and forty bad ones, from Oxford, Canterbury, and the farces.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 231. An Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, consisting of various Motetts, Chorus's, Concerto's & to be divided into three parts, after the manner of an Oratorio. The whole to conclude with the celebrated Piece of Vocal Musick from Rome. [Usual prices.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

2525
25 April 1743 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece by Desire. Prices 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet