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5890 results for: Keyword - Mr Tho. Durfey
We found 4315 matches on Event Comments, 1176 matches on Performance Comments, 536 matches on Performance Title, 204 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4351
19 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [The same rise in price prevailed that occurred on 12 March, but without the explanatory note.] N.B. Those Tickets that could not be admitted on Mr Arne's Benefit night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

4352
20 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Sweet Bird, from Milton,-Mrs Arne; II: A Cantata by Stanley-Beard; IV: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; V: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: III: A Concerto, as17420105; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

4353
22 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Yates. The Stage will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. Mr Yates humbly hopes those Ladies, who are not yet provided with Tickets, will to prevent Mistakes, be pleas'd to send their Servants for them to the Theatre, where Attendance will be given; and also to send their Servants to keep their Places by Four o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

4354
25 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226

4355
19 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Miss Medina

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

4356
19 April 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

4357
21 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Let me Wander not unseen-Beard; III: Sweet Bird from Milton-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; V: Le Boufon, as17420325

4358
28 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Sweet Bird from Milton-Mrs Arne; III: A Ballad-Lowe; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: V: A New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips

4359
29 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Desse. Tickets to be had of Neale, a Silk Dyer in David St., Moor's in the Playhouse Passage; and at Mr Desse'd, at Gresham's, Shoemaker, in York St., Covent Garden. London Daily Post and General Advertiser announced Chrononhotonthologos as afterpiece by Rylands has The King and Miller, Receipts: #140

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: By particular desire, a Chacone-Desse; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428

Song: IV: Song-Lowe

4360
04 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John VanBrugh. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the brethren of the Honourable and Antient Society of Free and Accepted Masons, for the Benefit of a Brother, who has had great misfortunes. None to be admitted Without printed Tickets (Daily Advertiser). The Brethren are desired to meet the Right Honourable the Grand Master, at Mr Filkes, at the Bedford Arms in the Piazza in Covent Garden, at Four o'clock in the afternoon, in order to accompany him to the play. Stage form'd into an amphitheatre. Servants allowed to keep places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: Songs in Masonry-Salway, Bencraft; Arra my Judy (by desire)-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

Dance: PPantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

4361
11 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Thomas Hull

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: CComic Dance, as17420510; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; Minuet-Villeneuve, Mlle Fabres

4362
18 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: TThe Virgin Unmasked

Song: III: let me wander not unseen-Beard; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Swiss, as17410926

4363
25 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: Celladon and Phyllis-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; V: The Medley of Jokes-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

4364
21 September 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No persons will be admitted behind the scenes, but those that have Silver tickets. Places to be taken for the Boxes of Mr Hobson, at the stage door of the theatre. [The note concerning silver tickets appears regularly throughout the season.] Play begins exactly at Six o'clock. [Customary notice not included further.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Raftor

Song: III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Tyrolean Dance-Borromeo, Signora Constanza, Desse, Baudouin, LaPierre, Mrs Thomson, Mlle Gendon, Mlle Fabres; IV: A Peasant Dance-Borromeo, Sga Constanza; being the 1st time of their appearing on that stage

4365
06 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; A New Dance call'd La Villageoise-Dumont, Mlle Auguste, Mrs Delagarde

4366
12 October 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

4367
19 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: TThe Je@ne@scais@quoy, as17421015; La Villageoise, as17421006

4368
28 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17421026

4369
01 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Blakes
Related Works
Related Work: The Country Madcap in London Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17421009; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: The Early Horn-Lowe

4370
13 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17421105; Peasants, as17421102

4371
25 November 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Paget, Now unhappily confin'd in the Fleet Prison. The Audience may depend upon the Entertainments being conducted in regular manner; and the Place is commodious, handsome, and Theatrical. Tickets to be had of Mr Paget, in the Fleet Prison, who has no other Method of getting Subsistence in his confinement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

4372
03 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; IV: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421201

4373
13 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-two Masters Granier, Miss Granier; III: The Welch Buffon-two Masters Granier; V: A Comic Ballet-Carney, Mlle Roland, Lapierre, Pelling, Granier, Mrs Saintquient, Mrs Vallois, Miss Story

4374
14 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Dance: II: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421201; IV: La Recrue des Houssars, as17421211

4375
03 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On Friday Night last as Mr Lowe, belonging to Drury Lane Playhouse was going down Snow Hill, he was stopt by two fellows, one of whom, without speaking a word, gave him a most violent blow on the Temple, with a great stick, which stunned him so that he fell back against a shop Window, and remained insensible for some time; as soon as he recover'd he felt in his pockets and found they had robb'd him only of 11 shillings in silver, being (as he supposes) disturb'd by some people passing by, for they had not taken his watch, nor a Guinea and a half which he had also in his pockets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Music: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti