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8350 results for: Keyword - New Theatre in the Haymarket
We found 4951 matches on Event Comments, 2716 matches on Performance Title, 1711 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6526
02 February 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Afterpiece by George Farquhar. Advertised as "the last new Farce," it probably had its premiere in Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wit

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

6527
22 February 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A new Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick (after the manner of an Opera...the vocal part being compos'd by Mr Weldon, and the Instrumental by Mr Dieuport. [Text by Pierre Motteux.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britain's Happiness

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Mrs Mayers, Devonshire Girl

6528
16 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips. Writ by the Ingenious Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Bellamour-Phillips; who play'd Chamont amongst the Oxford Gentlemen see17040707 and who speaks a new Prologue to the Town-Phillips.
Cast
Role: who play'd Chamont amongst the Oxford Ge Actor: Phillips.

Song: A gentleman, his first on the stage

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

Dance: Harlequin Man and Woman-Laforest, Devonshire Girl; Quaker's Dance, Country Farmer's Daughter-Devonshire Girl

6529
02 October 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A new Farce, never acted but twice. [By John Corey. Date of premiere unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis; Or, The Old Lover Outwitted

Performance Comment: Edition of 1704 lists no actors' names; Prologue by C. Johnson designed for Verbruggen, in the Astrologer's Habit. Prologue-Mrs Bradshaw; Epilogue written by C. Johnson-Booth.

6530
04 December 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author [Nicholas Rowe]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Announced as the last new farce, it had been originally scheduled for the week of 6-11 Nov. (Diverting Post, 4 Nov.), but postponed. It probably was acted before 25 Nov., for the Diverting Post of that date published the Prologue.] Thomas Davies: Did not the tragic Rowe write The Biter, a comedy; and was he not the only person of the audience that laughed during the acting of it [Dramatic Miscellanies, I, 94]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Biter

6531
22 February 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With an Addition of a new Scene. [By Susanna Centlivre. Date of premiere unknown. Flying Post, 22 Feb., refers to this performance as the twelfth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

6532
01 May 1705 @ May Fair

Event Comment: At Pinkethman's booth and also at Finley's booth. [In Daily Courant, 28 April and 1, 2, and 3 May, an announcement stated that the two men would continue separate entertainments in separate booths during May Fair.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Performance Comment: Some new and surprising Entertainments, to be expressed in the bills.

6533
23 November 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Never acted before. [By Nicholas Rowe.] Downes (p.48): The Play being all new Cloath'd, and Excellently well perform'd had a Successful run

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Performance Comment: Edition of 1706 lists: Ulysses-Betterton; Eurymachus-Verbruggen; Polydamas-Mynns; Yhoon-Knap; Agenor-Weller; Ephialtes-Freeman; Telemachus-Booth; Antinous-Husbands; Cleon-Dickins; Arcas-Cory; Mentor-Bowman; Penelope-Mrs Barry; Semanthe-Mrs Bracegirdle; Prologue-Betterton; Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle.
Cast
Role: Semanthe Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle

6534
12 March 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. Mainpiece: several new Additions never performed but once, particularly a Scene of Comical Magickv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Music: Composed by Henry Purcell

Dance: Proper dances-duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier

6535
07 November 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. All the chief parts being new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

6536
01 February 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Philip Perceval to Sir John Perceval, 1 Feb.: The opera of Camilla has been one of the chief diversions of the town this long time, and business is forgot. Next week we expect a new one, and soon after another. One goes by Mr Addison's name; I think they call it Fair Rosamond, the other is Mr Clayton's undertaking. Great things are expected of them both. (Egmont MS, II, 215.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

6537
04 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Joseph Addison. Music by Thomas Clayton.] A new Opera never yet perform'd. By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [Both A Critical Discourse upon Operas (1709) and Jacobs (I, 3) refer to the unsatisfactory nature of the music; as a result, according to Jacobs, "It had not the Success due to its Merit."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

6538
01 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Motteux. Music adapted by Pepusch.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Front Boxes and Side Boxes to be laid open into the Pit; where none are to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. And the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

6539
07 February 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by Tickets...at half a Guinea each Tickets. The Number of Tickets not to exceed 400. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. And by Order, no Person to stand upon the Stage. Receipts: #53 15s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Performance Comment: See dl 6 Dec. 1707, but Metius (with several new Select Songs added)-Gioseppi Cassani, lately arrived from Italy.

Dance: Cherrier, Debargues, Mrs Debargues, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Evans, others

6540
02 March 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Words from the Italian of G. B. Neri. Music by Francesco Conti and others.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

6541
02 April 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an entire set of new Scenes, Painted by two famous Italian Painters (lately arriv'd from Venice) and all the other Decorations that were represented in the Opera of Clotilda. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

6542
07 April 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and No Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets at half a Guinea each. Note, That the Tickets deliver'd out for the Moor of Venice, and Great Mogul, will be taken at this Play. [Receipts: possibly #154 6s. 7 1!2d., according to Baggs.] For a comment on this occasion, see Tatler, 12 April. Whincop (pp. 175-76) states: But Mr Betterton being new past Seventy Years of Age, and lame with the Gout, seemed but to burlesque the Part of youthful Valentine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

6543
28 May 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With an addition of a whole new Scene, consisting of Three Songs, compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and perform'd by the famous Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. The Scenes, as 2 April. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by Printed tickets only. Stage boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

6544
03 June 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cave Underhill the old Comedian. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Tatler, 26 May, Underhill had announced his benefit, stating that he had losses to the value of nearly #2,500. See also Tatler, 31 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17090507, but Gravedigger-Underhill; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.

6545
19 September 1709 @ Hampstead

Event Comment: At Mr Goff's new Playhouse in Hampstead. This Consort will be perform'd with much better Decorum than before. [In Post Boy, 13-15 Sept., it was announced that the Justices for Middlesex had served an order at Hampstead forbidding the players "to act any more there."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Celebrated Songs, Comic Dialogues by the late Mr Henry Purcel, other great English Masters, for 1, 2 and 3 voices; the whole, as it will be perform'd, and by whom, in our great Bills to which we refer-

6546
28 November 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines never shewn before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: With all the Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

Dance: Dances proper to the Play-

6547
17 December 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Entertainment: Higgins

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

6548
27 December 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With several new Decorations of Scenes and Machines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Music: As17091128

Dance: As17091128

Entertainment: Higgins

6549
21 February 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrid

Performance Comment: As17100109, but Ordgar-a Young Gentleman, a Friend of the Author's, who is pleas'd to Act it for his own diversion; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Ordgar Actor: a Young Gentleman, a Friend of the Author's, who is pleas'd to Act it for his own diversion
Role: Athelwold Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

6550
06 March 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: A Practice of the new Opera in Form; to begin exactly at Six a Clock. [See also 2 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Practice Of An Opera [hydaspes