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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.

1301
09 November 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Desire. At Common Prices. N.B. There being an Entertainment, the After-Money will be taken. [In London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 8 Nov., The Inconstant had been advertised for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: IV: Delagarde, Delamayne, the first time of his appearing on this stage

1302
14 January 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Practice of a Dramatick Entertainment. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] Afterpiece: A Mock Tragedy. [Author not known, but Mrs. Lois G. Morrison of San Antonio College believes that it was written by Eustace Budgell. Apparently not published.] At Common Prices. Note, No Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors will be open'd at Fou , and begin exactly at Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Defeat Of Apollo; Or, Harlequin Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Bob, Alias Gin

1303
14 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] By a Company of Comedians dropt from the Clouds, late Servants to their thrice-renown'd Majesties, Kouly Kan and Theodore. With new Scenes, Habits, and proper Decorations. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 1st N.B. To prevent the Imposition of Box-Keepers, Gentlemen and Ladies are humbly desir'd to take Tickets at the Office, or to send for them at the Theatre, where Attendance will be given every Day, and Places may be taken. 2d N.B. The Company will endeavour to entertain the Town the remaining part of the Season. [In advance bill in Daily Advertiser, 23 Feb.: 2d N.B. Considering the extraordinary Expence that must necessarily attend equipping so many Monarchs of different Nations, the Proprietor hopes the Town will not take Umbrage at the Prices being rais'd. 3rd. N.B. The Proprietor begs leave to enter his Caveat against all (what Names soever distinguish'd) who may hire, or be hir'd, to do the Drudgery of Hissing, Catcalling, &c. and entreats the Town would discourage, as much as in them lies, a Practice at once so scandalous and prejudicial to Author, Player, and every Fair Theatre Adventure.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Rehearsal Of Kings; Or, The Projecting Gingerbread Baker; With The Unheard Of Catastrophe Of Macplunderkan, King Of Roguomania And The Ignoble Fall Of Baron Tromperland, King Of Clouts

1304
19 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

1305
09 May 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of a certain Lady of Quality. At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Opera

1306
07 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Reviver. N.B. To prevent any Interruption in the Musick, Dancing, Machinery or other Parts of the Performance, Side Boxes only will be form'd on the Stage, for the Accommodation of the Ladies. And (by Desire) five Rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the Price of the BoXes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

1307
08 August 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: As 4 Aug. Benefit the Author. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marina

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Countess

1308
30 August 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Mainpiece: By C. Marsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amasis, King Of Egypth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1309
07 September 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At Common Prices. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

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

1310
02 October 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. The Stage Half a Guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: (by Dby Desire)The Mock Lawyer

1311
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

1312
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:

1313
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

1314
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

1315
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 Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17400919

1316
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

1317
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

1318
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.]

1319
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

1320
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

1321
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

1322
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

1323
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

1324
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

1325
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