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6192 results for: Keyword - Mr Magnus's Boy
We found 4340 matches on Event Comments, 1413 matches on Performance Comments, 838 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1476
08 June 1698 @ Lambeth Wells

Event Comment: Post Boy, No 482, 4-7 June 1698: Tomorrow, being Wednesday, the 8th Instant, in the Great Room at Lambeth Wells, will be performed a Consort of Musick, with some new Voices. To begin exactly at Five; price of Coming in but One Shilling. The same Consort will perform every Wednesday, the remaining Part of the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1477
05 July 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, No 494, 2-5 July 1698: This Day is Acted the Tempest, at the Kings Playhouse in Drury-Lane, for the Entertainment of a Foreign Prince, who, we are positively inform'd, is the Prince of Parma in Person

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

1478
09 July 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, No 496, 7-9 July 1698: This day is acted Oroonoko, at the King's Playhouse, for the particular Entertainment of some Persons of the highest Quality, with the Italian Shades, as they were perform'd with great Applause, before their Excellencies the Russian and Morocco Ambassadors, in the Reign of King Charles II. And an Entertainment after the manner of the Carnaval at Rome. With several Grotesque Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

1479
08 August 1698 @ New Wells Richmond

Event Comment: Post Boy, No. 507, 2-4 Aug. 1698: In the Walks of the New Wells in Richmond, on Monday next, the 8th of August, will be Perform'd an Extraordinary Entertainment of Instrumental Music, with Trumpets, Kettle-Drums, Hautboys, Flutes and Violins, after the manner of the Entertainments lately perform'd in the Queen's Garden at Somerset-House; Price of coming in 1s. To begin before 7 a clock in the Evening because the Performance must end by Day-light. The Musick of the Wells will attend to play Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1480
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Post Boy, 20-23 Aug. 1698: Jephtha's Rash Vow: Will be play'd again this Bartholomew Fair at Blakes and Penkethman's Booth, over against Hosier Lane. [See also William King, 25 Aug. 1698.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephthas Rash Vow

1481
15 April 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Post Boy, 13-15 April 1699: As both the Theatres have been very industrious to Entertain the Town with several eminent Master in Singing and Dancing, lately arrived, both from France and Italy, as Monsieur Balon, Signior Fideli, &c. we are now assured that the Masters of the Theatre Royal have engag'd Signior Clementine, the famous Eunuch, Servant of the Elector of Bavaria, to Sing on their publick Stage, for the short time of his stay in England. There is very great Expectation from his Performance as being a Person of that extraordinary Desert in Singing, that his yearly Salary on that Account is 500 #. a Year

Performances

1482
28 April 1699 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Boy, 22-25 April 1699: In York-Buildings, on Friday next, being the 28th Instant, will be perform'd a Consort of new Vocal and Instrumental Musick, for the Benefit of Mrs Lyndsey, beginning at the usual Hour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1483
29 April 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 27-29 April 1699: Her Royal Highness is this day pleased to see the Opera, call'd The Island Princess, Performed at the Theatre Royal by her own Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

1484
23 August 1699 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Post Boy, 24-26 Aug. 1699: On Wednesday the Lord Mayor proclaimed the opening of Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1485
09 November 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Post Boy, No. 716, 7-9 Nov. 1699: We hear that Monsieur Nivelong, the Famous Grotesque Dancer, is lately arrived from Paris, and that he designs to appear shortly on one of our English Stages

Performances

1486
11 November 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and two in the Box at Caius Marius. 12s. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 378. On this night occurred a quarrel between Henry Arthur and one Barry of the playhouses. See Post Boy, 11-14 Nov. 1699, and other news accounts during November 1699

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Caius Marius

1487
February 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the Post Boy, 19 March 1699@1700, makes it likely that the first performance occurred not later than February 1700. The Prologue also suggests a Lenten performance: Methinks in Lent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Choice

1488
27 February 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. This performance is known from a playbill apparently no longer extant: W. R. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At the New Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn Fields, this present Tuesday, being the 27th of February, will be presented, a Tragedy call'd The Mourning Bride. The Moorish? Entry perform'd by The Little? Boy. Vivant Rex. (W. J. Lawrence, The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies (Stratford, 1913). See also R. W. Lowe, Thomas Betterton (London, 1891), and Fitzgerald, A New History, I, 389

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

1489
30 May 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 28-30 May 1700: This Day at the King's Play-house, will be Acted the Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, with some Additional Entertainments, at the Request of several Seafaring Men

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

1490
01 June 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 30 May-1 June 1700: The Opera of the Prophetess, being this day Commanded to be Acted, for the Entertainment of the two Alcaids, the Envoys from the Emperor of Morocco. [When this play was revived at lif on 3 Dec. 1715, but Rich's Company, the bill was headed: Not Acted these Sixteen Years.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

1491
13 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. Post Boy, 11-13 July 1700: In consideration of the great Success of a Play, call'd, the Constant Couple, or a Trip to the Jubelee, and in Answer to a Scandalous Prologue spoken against it by the New House. At the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane this day, being the 13th of July, the said Play will be presented, for the Benefit of the Author, it being the last time of the Company's Acting this Summer. [The play, with the new Prologue, was published 20 Aug. 1700, according to the Post Man, 17-20 Aug. 1700.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

1492
August 1700 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: The proclamation against plays and interludes at bf was printed again in the London Post, 7-9 Aug. 1700. Nevertheless, entertainment occurred at the Fair: Flying Post, 13-15 Aug. 1700: At Barns's and Findley's Booth, between the Crown-Tavern and the Hospital-Gate, over-against the Cross Daggers in West-Smithfield (during the usual Time of Bartholomew Fair)...Four of the most Famous Companies ever in England, who perform such Curiosities in Dancing, Tumbling, and Vaulting, far surpassing any ever yet seen. Post Boy, 17-20 Aug. 1700: At the Monument Booth, over against the Fleece and Seven Stars, near the Crown Tavern in West Smithfield, will be perform'd by the famous Dutch Womans Companies of Rope-Dancers, at the same Ground where she was last Year

Performances

1493
06 December 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Post Boy, 5-7 Dec.: The Actors of the Theatre Royal, finding the Inconveniency to the Gentry of Playing so late at night, are resolved to continue, beginning their Plays at the Hour of Five every Day, as exprest in their Bills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

1494
12 May 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Elkanah Settle. Advance notice in Post Boy, 3-6 May, may indicate premiere on this day, but possibly delayed to 15 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Prophetess Or The Fate Of Troy

1495
05 February 1706 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: [Post Boy, 5-7 Feb., states that a play was performed at Court in honor of Her Majesty's birthday but does not name the piece; Downes (p. 47) lists The Anatomist with the entertainments given above for Shrove Tuesday.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist Or The Sham Doctor

Song: Mrs del'Epine, Signora Maria Gallia, Mrs Lindsey, Mrs Hudson, Leveridge

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Miss Campion, Mrs duRuel, Devonshire Girl

1496
30 August 1707 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: [See The Fair in an Uproar, or a Prologue to the Dancing-Dogs. With their Figures exactly engrav'd on Copper Plates, as they Perform in Penkeman's Opera in Bartholomew Fair, published on Saturday 30, according to The Post Boy, 28-30 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penkethmans Dancing Dogs

1497
15 November 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. All Sung after the Italian manner. [in Post Boy, 13-15 Nov., a notice states: "Whereas the Names of Mrs Margarita del'Epine and Mrs Tofts, are mention'd in the Bills for the Opera of Camilla, as if they were to perform the parts of Prenesto and Camilla...That the Publick may not be impos'd upon, This is to give Notice, that the same is done without their Consent; and that they do not intend to perform; there being no Articles of Agreement between them and the Managers...who have of late declin'd coming to any with them."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: Between the Acts:

1498
29 April 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Friday last, a Proclamation was publish'd, strictly enjoyning the Proprietors and Owners of May-Fair, that they do not permit or suffer any Booth to be erected, or Stalls to be made Use of, during such Time as the said Fair shall be holden, for any Plays, Shews, Gaming, Musick-Meetings. (Post Boy, 30 April-3 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

1499
28 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pix's Executor. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the Author of a Comedy call'd, The Gamester. [A similar announcement in Post Boy, 26-28 May, adds: "the greatest part of which said Comedy (The Busy Body), and also that of the Gamester, was wrote by the said Mrs Pix."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

1500
06 September 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Post Boy, 13-15 Sept.: On Tuesday, the 7th [sic] instant, in Drury-Lane, when the Players were just going to act, but were, by Order from their Superiors, stopp'd from farther Proceeding; so that they were, to their great Mortification, forced to dismiss their publick Auditors. [See also Female Tatler, 12 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer