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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr King"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr King")') 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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10439 results for: Keyword - Mr King
We found 5481 matches on Event Comments, 3632 matches on Performance Comments, 3145 matches on Performance Title, 43 matches on Author, and 6 matches on Roles/Actors.

10076
28 October 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Afterpiece: a new Dramatic Masque. [By Roger.] The Habits, Scenes, Machines, and the other Decorations entirely new. King, Queen, Prince of Wales, Princess Amelia and Princess Mary present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris With The Mistakes

10077
10 December 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. King, Queen, Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Princess Emilia, and Princess Caroline present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

10078
18 March 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit Mrs Porter. [King, Queen, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Dance: Mrs Booth

10079
25 March 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Benefit Mlle Salle. The Boxes being all taken, and many Places more demanded, the Pit and Boxes, at the Request of several Ladies of Quality, will be put together. Receipts: money #119 12s.; tickets #74 17s. [King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Les Charactere de la Dance-Salle, Mlle Salle; II: Scottish Dance-Salle, Mrs Legar; III: New French Tambourin-Mlle Salle; After I Farce: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; II: French Peasant A@la@Mode de l'Opera-Poitier, Mlle Salle

10080
25 May 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Wilcocks, Mines, and Widow Gardiner. Receipts: money #6 6s., tickets #103 11s. Daily Post, 25 May: We hear, that when His Majesty removes to Hampton-Court, the Theatre in that Palace will be open'd, and Plays acted by the King's Company of Comedians

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Last new Comic Dance-Newhouse, Miss Wherrit

10081
15 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat, Author of the Tragedy of King Lear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Amours of Billingsgate

10082
09 August 1731 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: At Yeates' Great Theatrical Booth, facing the King's Head at Tottenham Court,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Damon And Phillida With The Comical Humours Of Simon And Mopsus

10083
12 November 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. [The King and Queen present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Billingsgate

Dance:

10084
18 November 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of several Foreign Persons of Distinction. Receipts: #176 1s. [King, Queen, Prince, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

10085
24 November 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The Royal Family present.] Daily Post, 23 Nov.: We hear the King and all the Royal Family remove from Richmond...and are to be at ...Drury Lane [Friday] Evening; a List of Plays, &c. having been sent to Richmond by his Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

10086
09 December 1732 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: As 5 Dec. [King, Princess Royal, and Princess Amelia present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

10087
07 May 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lancetti, Virtuoso of the Violoncello, and Servant to His Majesty the King of Sardinia. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Arrigoni, St.Martini, Fratelli, Castrucci, Carbonelli; several Solos on Violoncello-Lancetti

10088
29 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

10089
05 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

10090
22 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 June: We hear that Subscriptions are actually in great forwardness for having two different Operas next Winter, one at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, under the Direction of Messrs Handel and Heydegger, and the other to be at one of the Playhouses, under the Management of Directors chosen from among the Subscribers

Performances

10091
26 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: TThe King paid #1,000 to the Opera in the Haymarket. See Deutsch, Handel, p. 317

Performances

10092
22 December 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Fabricius

10093
06 July 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Princess of Orange, and Princesses Amelia and King's Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

10094
20 August 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of Tomo Chachi, Micho or King of the Indians of Yamacrow, Benauki his Wife, Tooanahowi his Nephew, and the rest of the Indians. Receipts: #230. [Apparently a benefit for Arne.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Dance: II: Les Bergeres Heureux by Davenport and Miss Brett. IV: Two Pierrots by Davenport and Olbeldiston. V: Saraband and Minuet by Davenport and Miss Brett

Song: 1: A Teneri Afferti by Master Arne and Miss Jones. III: Rise Glory (with French Horns) by Miss Jones

10095
23 September 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman. For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi, Micho or King of the Yamicraw, Senauki his Wife, and the rest of the Indians. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17340920

10096
30 September 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Indian King, Queen, and Chiefs present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens Or The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

10097
23 October 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The King grants a subsidy of #1,000 to Handel's opera company. See Deutsch, Handel, p. 370

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

10098
06 November 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princess Amelia and Princess Caroline. [King, Duke, and all the Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Le Misantrope

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Song:

Dance:

10099
09 November 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: First Piece: A new Dramatick Entertainment in Musick. [Music by Handel.] Second Piece: An Opera. With several Additions, intermix'd with Choruses. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 21. 6d. [King and Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Terpsicore

Afterpiece Title: Pastor Fido

10100
08 January 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by A. Salvi. Music by Handel. King, Queen, Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante