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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Price"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Price")') 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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6245 results for: Keyword - Mr Price
We found 4827 matches on Event Comments, 1227 matches on Performance Comments, 541 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1276
27 April 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Milward. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master and the Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. At the Desire of the Brethren, four Rows of the Pit will be railed, at the Price of the Boxes, and kept for Masons only. Those Brethren who design to attend the Grand Master, are desired to meet by 5 o'clock, at farthest, at the Bear and Harrow in the Butcher-Row, and to come Cloath'd. Receipts: money #39 3s. 6d.; tickets #95 19s. [The Epilogue (spoken by Mrs Younger) is in Daily Post, 29 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; III: Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden; V: The Baulk-

Song: II: Laguerre; IV: Salway

1277
11 July 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance:

1278
19 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1279
21 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Miss Raftor

Dance:

1280
23 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Ballet: With New Habits. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Dance: Grand Ballet: Les Bergeries, Composed in the Taste of Monsieur Dumoulin and Mademoiselle Camargo, of the Opera at Paris-Essex, Miss Robinson, Houghton, being the first Time of their Dancing since their Arrival from Paris; Thurmond, Mrs Walter, Tench, Miss Williams, Davenport, Miss Mears

1281
15 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #26 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

1282
11 December 1732 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Stage half a guinea. Receipts: #69 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Dance: As17321209

1283
16 February 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The new Oratorio. [Music by William DeFesch. Text by William Huggins.] The printed Books of the Opera may be had at the Theatre only, price 1s. The Composer humbly hopes the Disappointment the Town met with by its being postpon'd, will be in no means inputed to him, it being occasioned by such an Accident as any one might unfortunately fall under, that of the Misconduct and pretended Sickness of Cecilia Young, who had ingaged for the Part of Judith. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

1284
29 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Morgan, Wetherilt. Being absolutely the last Night of the Company's acting this Season. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance:

1285
26 June 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m. The Company will continue to act twice a Week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; or, Vulcan's Wedding

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling

Ballet: AAmorous Clowns or the Courtezan. Clowns-Pelling, Delagarde; Their Wives-Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston; Courtezan-Mrs Pelling

1286
26 January 1734 @ Temple Bar

Event Comment: At the Desire of the Learned in the Law. At the Apollo, within the Pope's Head, commonly call'd the Devil's Tavern. 6 P.M. Price 11. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tony Aston's Medley: His Comical, Whimsical, Nonesuch, What D'ye Mean Medley

1287
08 November 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: By particular Desire. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: By Ray, Nichols, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones

1288
11 November 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: As this Entertainment has been frequently perform'd at another Theatre [CG] (but notwithstanding has been equally Expensive as if entirely New) to oblige the Town, it will, for the future, be perform'd At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

1289
17 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann

1290
11 July 1735 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By a Company of Comedians from both Theatres. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By Davenport and Mrs Davenport. V: Minuet by Mrs Charke and Miss Brett. End Afterpiece: Black Joak by Mrs Charke and Miss Brett

Song: IV: The Roast Beef Song by Mullart

1291
06 September 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance:

1292
16 September 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Stage Halfa Guinea. Receipts: #20 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance:

1293
17 September 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Mrs Charke. At Common Prices. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Carnival; or, Harlequin Blunderer

Dance: Two Pierrots by Mons Le Blond and Mons Chatillion, the first time of their performance in England

1294
11 November 1735 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Written by Dryden and Lee. Receipts: #41 14s. [For a discussion of the recent revival of The Rival SLueens, see Prompter, 11 Nov.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, and Mlle Delorme. Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze

1295
19 January 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Author of the Farce. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Fourteen Years. Written by Dr Young, Author of the Universal Passion. Afterpiece: A New Tragic-Comic-Operatic-Pastoral Farce [By T. Drury]. At Common Prices. [Preface gives a long account of difficulties in getting the Afterpiece on the stage. See Daily Advertiser, 16 and 17 Jan. for puffs of the Afterpiece.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners; or, The Humours of Covent-Garden

Dance: I: Irish Trot by Shawford. III: Scot's Dance by Shawford. IV: Hornpipe by Collard. V: Sailor's Dance by Castiglione

Song: II: By Young Cunningham

1296
03 March 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Freeman. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twelve Years. By particular Desire. Afterpiece: With Alterations. And a Description of Tom King's Coffee-house in Covent-Garden. At Common Prices [4s., 2s. 6d., and 1s. 6d. in Daily Advertiser]. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris, King Of Aegypt

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Dance:

1297
27 May 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Being a True Story in Common Life, and the Incidents extremely affecting. Written by the Author of George Barnwell [George Lillo]. N.B. This is much the coolest House in Town. At Common Prices, viz. Boxes 5s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. [For a puff, see Daily Advertiser, 25 May.] Daily Advertiser, 28 May: Last Night . . . Guilt its own Punishment . . . was acted . . . with the greatest Applause that has been shewn to any Tragedy for many Years. The Scenes of Distress were so artfully work'd up, and so well perform'd, that there scarce remain'd a dry Eye among the Spectators at the Representation; and during the Scene preceding the Catastrophe, an attentive Silence possess'd the whole House, more expressive of an universal Approbation than the loudest Applauses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guilt Its Own Punishment; Or, Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Tumble Down Dick

1298
14 July 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: As 18 June. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

1299
31 August 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; IV: Les Bergeries-Essex, Mrs Walter

1300
17 September 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Stage Half a Guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: CClown-Nivelon; Several dances-Two Misses Scott, Scholars of Nivelon