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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.

1576
10 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never acted. Comedy by Wm. Whitehead. New Scenes and Dresses. Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

1577
13 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full Prices. School for Lovers Published 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

1578
26 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces under the Direction of Dr Arne. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Set to Music by Handel. Afterpiece: A Serenata of one Act set to Music by Dr Arne. N.B. Though the nightly expenses attending these performances during the Lent, will be at least equal to any on the like occasion, the Prices will be only Boxes 7s. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. and the Upper Gallery 2s. To begin as usual. Subscriptions will continue through the Lent to be taken at Three Guineas, for which the Subscribers shall receive Twelve Box tickets to be used at pleasure, till all are come in, which tickets may be had at Dr Arne's in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: I: Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; II: Concerto on German Flute-Florio

1579
12 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

1580
24 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi and Vincent. No Building on Stage. Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: I: The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926; III: The Drunken Swiss-Grimaldi, Baltazar, Miss Baker; IV: A New Tambourine-Vincent. (playbill) *uö¯dl TThe Farmer's Return from London. As17620320

Entertainment: TThe Savoyard Travellers-Grimaldi, Sg and Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker

1581
30 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: For last time this season. Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: III: New Hornpipe-Miss Baker

1582
03 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez, ballet master. Full Prices. Afterpiece: By Desire. The Farmer, for last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: II: The Tambourine Dance-Vincent; III: The Italian Gardiners, as17611010; IV: Hornpipe-Vincent; The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926. End: The Farmer's Return from London. As17620320

1583
22 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Full Prices. Doors open'd at half past Four. To Begin exactly at half past Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: A Comic Dance-Miss Rogers

1584
24 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. Afterpiece: For 67th time. Last time of the Company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part 2

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: III: The Taylors, as17620107

1585
02 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii; With Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: theCtheCoronation

1586
09 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

1587
23 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Full Prices. After this night the Coronation cannot be done for a considerable time on account of the pantomime entertainment of the Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Dance: III: The Jealous Woodcutter-M Duquesney, 1st appearance on English Stage, Sg Tassoni, Sga Manesiere

1588
01 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not perform'd these 4 years. [See 12 Feb. 1759.] Habits and Scenes for it entirely new. Nothing under Full Price will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer, with the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

1589
04 February 1763 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Event Comment: At the Great Room, Dean St. Benefit for Miss Formantel. Price: 5s. To begin at 7

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

1590
18 February 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties, an Occasional Oratorio "selected from the most celebrated compositions of the late George Frederick Handel." Pit and Boxes to be put together. No person to be admitted without Tickets which will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half past Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at half after Six. This day Publish'd Price 1s. An Occasional Oratorio, as it is to be performed at Covent Garden...J. and R. Tonson. [The most provocative commentary on Oratorios may be found in [Robert Maddison's] An Examination of the Oratorios performed This Season at Covent Garden, (London, 1763) 63 pages, wherein he seeks to define the genre, then judge the performances in terms of his definition.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Occasional Oratorio

Music: CConcertos on Organ-Stanley; on Violin-Hay

1591
08 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Opera Not Performed this Season. No persons admitted behind the scenes, nor any money return'd after the curtain is drawn up. [But no mention is made of full prices.] Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, The Catalonian Marriage-Duquesney, Sga Manesiere; II: A New Comic Dance, The Tyrolese-Sg Muzioli, 1st appearance English Stage, Sga Manesiere

1592
14 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full Prices. To prevent any mistakes for the future in advertising the Plays and Entertainments at the above theatre, the managers think it proper to declare that the Playbills are inserted by their direction in this paper only (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

1593
20 June 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comedy. To begin at seven. Prices [as of 6 July]: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: Rogier, Miss Capitani; III: Double Hornpipe-Rogier, Miss Capitani

1594
07 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full prices. Receipts: #97 2s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

1595
14 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Oratorio By Command of their Majesties. This Day is publish'd Price 1s. Deborah, a Sacred Drama, or Oratorio, as it is performed By Command of their Majesties at Covent Garden...Printed for Benjamin Dod at the Bible and Key in Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Music: As17640309

1596
23 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: This Day Publish'd. Price 1s. As acted tonight at Covent Garden, Judas Maccabaeus, a Sacred Drama. With Alterations. Printed for the Administrator of J. Watts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17640309

1597
30 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. This Day publish'd Price 1s. L'Allegro ed Il Penseroso By Milton, and a Song for St Cecelia's Day by Dryden as performed at Covent Garden. Printed for J. and R. Tonson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Dryden's Ode

Music: As17640309

1598
13 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: TThe Messiah publish'd this day by B. Dod. Price 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17640411

1599
09 January 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full Prices. Mainpiece: Dress'd in the Habits of the Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

1600
13 January 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full Prices. N.B. Merope is oblig'd to be deferr'd. Mrs Baddeley, Ophelia-very bad, all but the singing (+Hopkins Diary.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit