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5913 results for: Keyword - Mr Van Richardson
We found 4245 matches on Event Comments, 1351 matches on Performance Comments, 633 matches on Performance Title, 24 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4651
22 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17500221; IV: Swedish Gardeners, as17491219

4652
23 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Lying ValetThe Devil to Pay

Dance: AAcis and Galatea, as17500219

4653
27 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

4654
28 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

4655
01 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted there before. New Decorations incident to the play (General Advertiser). Advanc'd towards purchasing Mr Smollet's copy of Alceste #100 (Account Book). Handel remov'd to Covent Garden, and entered into some engagements with Rich, the particulars of which are not known, save that in discharge of a debt that he had contracted with him in consequence thereof, he some years after set to music an English opera entitled Alceste, written by Dr Smollet, and for which Rich was at great expense in a set of scenes painted by Servandoni; but it was never performed (Hawkins, General History of Music, V, 324). [For additional information on Alceste, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 679-81. See also cg 14 Feb. 1749.] Receipts: #155 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

4656
10 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

4657
13 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Hussar's servant Actor: Arthur

4658
15 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal or Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4659
26 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CComic Dance, as17500221; L'Entree de Flore-Mlle Auretti

4660
26 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

4661
29 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4662
31 March 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; II: Dutch Dance, as17500319 but -Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III: Grand Scotch Ballet, as17500201; End of Play: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

4663
02 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy. Ladies are desired to send Servants to keep Places at 3 o'clock. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Elmy at the corner of Tavistock St., in Southampton St., and of Hobson at the stage door. Cash receipts #63 6s., plus #74 6s. from tickets. Total #137 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Mr Delane dy'd Sun: ye 1st of Ap. (Cross). The Masque of Comus, design'd to be perform'd at Drury Lane Wednesday next, the 4th of Apl, for the Benefit of Mrs Foster, Granddaughter of Milton, and his only surviving descendant, is, by particular desire of several persons of Quality, on account of Handel's Oratorio deferr'd till Thursday the 5th instant (General Advertiser). Receipts. #150 (Cross); charges #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: III: Miss Norris

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4664
02 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Charges #60. Balance to Lee #1 6s. plus #88 17s. from tickets. Advanced Servandoni #5 5s. Tickets to be had of Lee at Mr Christmas's in Maiden Lane; and of Page at the stage door. Both pieces by Desire. Receipts: #61 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17500201

4665
03 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17500319 End of Play: A Tambourin-Jardin

4666
07 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

4667
18 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

4668
19 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Judgment of Paris

Song: I: A New Scots Song-Miss Falkner; set-Master Arne; II: O Sleep, Lucinge-; III: Go Rose-

Dance: IV: Tambourine-Jardin

4669
21 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: La Strataggemma; or, the Stratagem Author(s): Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: IV: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

4670
24 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Tambourine-Jardin; III: Dutch Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; V: Grand Scots Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

Song: IV: Go Rose-Miss Falkner

4671
25 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: SSwedish Gardeners, as17491219

4672
10 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17500503; III: Black Joke, as17500420

4673
14 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

4674
17 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

4675
21 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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