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7355 results for: Keyword - Mr W. Giffard
We found 4469 matches on Event Comments, 2873 matches on Performance Comments, 560 matches on Performance Title, 37 matches on Author, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

1726
22 June 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 22 June, for a poem: To Mr Giffard, Master of the New Theatre in Goodman's-Fields, on closing the Season

Performances

1727
22 September 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Universal Spectator, 22 Sept.: We hear Mrs Booth . . . resolves to leave the Stage, having sold her Share in the Patent to Mr Giffard, the Master of [GF]

Performances

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1728
14 March 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 March: Amongst the many Rejoicings made on Account of the Royal Nuptials ... on Thursday Night Mr Giffard order'd 12 triomphal Arches to be erected before the House, which were finely illuminated, a large Bonfire to be made, Fireworks to be play'd off, and plenty of Drink given to the Populace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

1729
30 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 1 May: Last Night The Conscious Lovers was perform'd [at GF] in Honour of the Royal Marriage, when there was a very splendid Appearance of Ladies and Gentlemen, to whom Mr Giffard had distributed Tickets. The Stage was decorated in a particular Manner with several Glass Lustres. And the Outside of the House illuminated with a great Number of Candles, a large Quantity of Liquor given to the Populace. [The Prologue is in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 1 May; in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 26 April, an announcement had been made that no money would be received on this night.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

1730
08 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: We are inform'd that Mr Giffard, as an Expedient to recover, in some Degree, the Loss he has sustained by his late Undertaking in [lif] has apply'd to the late Patentee of the Theatre@Royal in Drury@Lane, for the favour of his Appearance in the Character of Lothario (in which it is observable, he amus'd himself some years since to very numerous and polite Audiences) with which Request the said Gentleman has very generously complied

Performances

1731
22 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

1732
29 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess Or Love At First Sight

1733
28 September 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generall

1734
25 March 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

1735
19 February 1680 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

1736
13 June 1689 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

1737
11 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe Lyon Moonshine and Wall

Music: With all New Musick (for that Night) both Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

1738
09 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

1739
26 May 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: I: Trumpet Concerto-Burk Thumoth; II: Concerto-Vivaldi; III: Solo on the German Flute-Thumoth; V: Sonata for the Harpsichord and Violin Harpsichord-Thumoth

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper-Jones Sr, Jones Jr; IV: Sailor's Dance-Jones

1740
29 September 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Dance: I: Running Footman and V: Scot's Dance by Brother Shawford

1741
10 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

1742
11 April 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: In II: Dance of Winds-Muilment, Thurmond; In IV: Comic Dance of Fantastical Spirits (in Grostesque Characters)-Thurmond, Villeneuve, Levier, Pelling; In V: Waterman's Dance-Harper; with a Grand ballet of Sailors-Mlle Roland

1743
14 April 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: As17370411

1744
25 April 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: As17370411

1745
12 October 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

1746
11 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana

1747
20 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Music: I: By Desire, a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; V: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

1748
21 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

1749
05 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb Winston MS 9

1750
02 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: New Tambourine, as17660123