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8571 results for: Keyword - New Theatre in Goodman's-Fields
We found 5062 matches on Event Comments, 2735 matches on Performance Title, 1866 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7351
21 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Chapman; Johnson-Ryan; Smith-Cashell; First King of Brentford-Roberts; Prince Prettyman-Hale; Gentleman Usher-Hippisley; Second King of Brentford-Harrington; Prince Volscius-Gibson; Physician-Rosco; Drawcansir-Mullart; General-Stephens; Lieut General-Stevens; Lord Mayor-Marten; Tom Thimble-James; Thunder-Bridgwater; Lightening-Mrs Villeneuve; Sun-Bencraft; Moon-Leveridge; Earth-Salway; Amarillis-Miss Burgess; Chloris-Mrs Mullart; Pallas-Woodward; Two Sing@Song Dancing Spirits-Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; Players, Soldiers horse and foot, Cardinals, Judges, Sargeant at Arms-the rest of the comedians; With the Music-; Songs-; Dances-; Scenes, Machines, Habits, other Decoration proper to the play; With the Additional Reinforcements of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

7352
23 October 1741 @ New Wells, Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: [For a performance of a pantomime this day at New Wells, Lemon St., gf]: At the Desire of the Society of Free and Accepted Masons, 10 rows in the Pit will be rail'd in for them.--Daily Advertiser

Performances

7353
09 November 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Never perform'd before. All the Characters new dressed. [By James Dance, adapted from Richardson's novel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pamela

7354
11 November 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips; Gipsies-Bride, Green, Rayner, Gray; Gipsey Women-Miss Minors, Mrs Budgell, Mrs Jackson, Mrs Rayner; Young Rustick-Liviez; Colombine-Miss Mann; Colombine's Father-Leigh; Fidler-Gray; Mother-Mrs Phillips; Maid-Miss Story; John Trot-Hough; Concluding with a New Grand Entertainment of Dancing call'd A Voyage to the Island of Cytherea: Adonis-Desse; Venus-Mrs Walter; Pilgrims (men)-Liviez, Dumont, Baudouin, (women) Mrs Thompson, Miss Story, Miss Rayner; Cupid-Constantini.

Song: Between the acts: Beard, Lowe

7355
13 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Rylands MS.: Young Gentleman-Hill. Being the last time of the Fausan's performing in England. [The Fausans had created twelve new Dances for the English during this tour.] Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Song: I: a Ballad-Lowe; III: Song-Mrs Arne; IV: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe

Dance: II: Les Egyptiens, as17420224

Ballet: V: a Grand Comic Ballet The Peasant. Peasants-The Fausans; Shepherds-LaCroix, Desse, Constantini; Shepherdesses-Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Miss Story

7356
15 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard, at the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. All the Characters will be new Dress'd. The Stage will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep places. Tickets at 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Leek, as17420224; Two Millers and Courtezan-two Masters and Miss Granier

7357
20 April 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera [a pasticcio, Metastasio text altered by Rolli, form Pergolesi's Olimpiade, 1735 (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 183)]. Music by Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Lampugnani. L. Leo, F. Leo [libretto in L. C.]. Two of the principal Performers being greatly indispos'd, the Dancers are oblig'd to be deferr'd. Thomas Gray to John Chute, 24 May: Our fifth Opera was the Olimpiade, in which they retain'd most of Pergolesi's Songs & yet 'tis gone already, as if it had been a poor thing of Galuppi's. Two nights did I enjoy it all alone, snugg in a Nook in the Gallery, but found no one in those regions had ever heard of Pergolesi, nay, I heard several affirm it was a Composition of Pescetti's.-Gray, Correspondence, I, 203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

7358
01 May 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With Dances and Decorations entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

7359
18 May 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Not identified, No edition known. Probably a pasticcio.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ceffalo E Procri

7360
04 October 1742 @ Upper Moorfields

Event Comment: At Yeates, Warner, and Rosoman's Booth in Upper Moorfields. [According to news item in Daily Advertiser, they were to act all of this week during the time of Mile End Fair.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Lovers; Or, An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy at Last

7361
07 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Garrick; Johnson-Mills; Smith-Berry; other characters-Macklin, Havard, Yates, Blakes, Neale, Morgan, Arthur, Green, Turbutt, Winstone, Mrs Cross, Miss Minors, Miss Cibber, Mrs Ridout, Wright, Woodburn, Gray, Leigh; Vocal Parts-Beard, Lowe, Raftor, Ray; With the Additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.

Song: I: Songs-Beard

Music: III: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: II: Peasant Dance, as17420921; IV: Tyrolean Dance, as17420921

7362
08 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With New Habits and Decorations to the Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Dance: Checo Torinese, Sga Charetta Aquilanti, their 1st appearance, Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval

Music: Concerto-Veracini

Song: Beard

7363
01 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several persons of Quality. This month was published A Clear Stage and no Favour, or Tragedy and Comedy at War, occasioned by the Emulation of the Two Theatric Heroes David and Goliath, A 12 p. poem setting forth the appeals of Garrick and Quin. [Prophesies that in two years' time Quin will continue to be esteemed more than Garrick, the new favorite.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421130; V: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie-Checo, Signora Chiaretti

7364
04 December 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera, etc. [Really Gluck's Artaserse, Metastasio's text, a pastiche.] Music by Brivio (from libretto)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mandane

7365
17 February 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Henry Fielding. Never acted before. On 25 Jan. Lady Hertford wrote to her son: Mr Fielding has wrote a comedy which has been refus'd by the Licenser, not as a reflecting one, but on account of its immorality. On 19 Feb. she wrote again: Mr Fielding by suffering the bawd to be carted, tho she is his favorite character in the new play, has obtained a license to have it acted, and it was perform'd on thursday for the first time, but so much dislik'd that it is believ'd that it will be impossible to prevail with a second audience to hear it through.-Hughes, Hertford, p. 242. The Larpent MS. shows many question marks, and deletions of suggestive, passionate, and physiological references

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

7366
21 February 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the author of this bad new play, which would have sunk the 1st night but for Garrick's acting (Winston MS. from Dyer MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

7367
02 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: RRoyal family attended.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 561. The new Oratorio...has been performed four Times to more crouded Audiences than ever were seen; more People being turned away for Want of Room each Night than hath been at the Italian Opera.-Quoted by Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 350, from Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 15 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

Music: Solo on Violin-Dubourg

7368
08 September 1743 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: YYeates, Warner, and Rosoman's Great Theatrical New Built Booth, opposite the old Til'd Booth...during the Time of the Fair. [Notices repeated 9, 10 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plotting Lovers; Or, The Old One Tricked At Last

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Triumphant

Dance: Bath Morris Dancers

7369
13 September 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Notices of performances on this date had appeared since 8 Sept., as at common prices and written by the late Sir Richard Steele, yet under the unsettled circumstances Fleetwood may not have assembled the players necessary for the production. Macklin, Garrick, Mills, Pritchard, Havard, Berry, Leigh, Blakes, Woodburn, Mrs Clive, Mrs Pritchard, and Mrs Mills had withdrawn and were attempting to form a company for acting at the New Haymarket. See Drury Lane Management in the Introduction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

7370
07 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: As17431117, but a New Prologue by Lockman-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: LLes Paisans Moisonneurs, as17431026

7371
31 January 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Adapted from As You Like It, by Rolli; music by Veracini (Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 398).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda

7372
14 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Beard; Rhodope-Mrs Clive; Eurydice-Miss Young; Nymphs follower of Eurydice-1, Mlle Domitilla; 2, Mrs Fabres; 3, Mrs LaFont; 4, Mrs LeBrun; 5, Mrs Villeneuve; Pluto-Leveridge; Ascalax-Reinhold; Demons-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde; Harlequin-Woodward; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pantaloon-Rosco; Squire Gawkey-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Marten; Drudge-Hippisley; Woman dwarf-Young Ferg; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Country Lasses-Mrs Fabres, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LaFont; A Rural Swain, Nymph-Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; Villagers-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Fabres, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LaFont; Intermix'd with a new Pantomime in Grotesque Characters, call'd the Metamorphoses of Harlequin-.

7373
02 March 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Will be acted, by a set of Gentlemen for their own diversion, the tragedy of Othello, being the last time of their performing that play; the character of Othello will be new dress'd, agreeable to the custom of his own Country.-Daily Advertiser, 28 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

7374
03 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Never acted there before. With all new Habits. Adapted to the stage, as alter'd from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

7375
20 March 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Oratorio, set to music by Signor Veracini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'errore Di Solomone