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5572 results for: Keyword - Opera House in the Haymarket
We found 3215 matches on Event Comments, 2570 matches on Performance Title, 280 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3726
30 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. St. James's Journal, 8 Dec.: The Revival of Philaster was an Attempt that deserv'd more Success than it met with: The natural Rise of the Distress in that Play, that Simplicity of Passion in the young Maid, with the many fine Passages throughout, pleas'd every one who has a just Taste of those Entertainments; and notwithstanding the Success of the Conscious Lovers, the Town are certainly ne'er the better Judges, while that Piece of Fletcher is acted to an empty House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Related Works
Related Work: Philaster Author(s): George Colman, the elder

3727
16 February 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #32 0s. 6d. Daily Journal, 18 Feb.: On Saturday Night a Disturbance happen'd at...Lincoln's Inn-Fields, occasion'd by a Body of Bailiffs and their Followers investing the House, in order to carry off a Gentleman who was upon Duty in the Play; but, we hear, their Design miscarried

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

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

Dance: As17221107

3728
12 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signiora Margherita Durastanti. And particular Care will be taken to place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. N.B. Whereas the Benefit for Signiora Durastanti is Part of her Contract, the Directors of the Royal Academy of Musick resolve not to make use of the Liberty of the House for that Night. [This benefit brought her nearly a thousand pounds.-Deutsch, Handel, p. 160.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

3729
18 March 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Rich's Register: Dismiss'd at a very full House by reason Mrs Seymour wou'd not Act for the Benefit fo Mr Ch. M. Rich. Abt #200 in Money and Tickets. British Journal, 23 March: As they were performing...Mariamne...before a Crowded Audience, the Celebrated Mrs Seymour was suddenly taken ill, and the Money return'd to the Value of 150 Pounds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

3730
26 March 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Francesca Cuzzoni. With an Addition of three new Songs, and an entire new Scene. Whereas this Benefit for Signora Cuzzoni is part of her Contract, the Directors...resolve not to make use of the Liberty of the House for this Night. And particular Care will be taken to place Benches on the Stage for the Accomodation of the Company. London Journal, 30 March: On Tuesday last was perform'd...Otho...for the Benefit fo Mrs Cuzzoni; and a considerable Benefit it was to her indeed, for, we hear, that some of the Nobility gave her 50 Guineas a Tickets. Daily Journal, 29 March: The Benefit of the famous Seignora Francesca Cuzzoni...we hear amounted to upwards of 700l

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho, King Of Germany

3731
06 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Boheme. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #63 16s. 6d.; tickets #81 4s. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 6 April: The Report of Mr Boheme of the New Play-House leaving that Theatre to go to Drury-Lane is entirely groundless

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

3732
18 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. Daily Journal, 16 April: On Thursday next Mr Wilks acts the Part of Sir Harry Wildair ...for the Benefit of his Son-in-Law, Mr Shaw, the Dancer at that House, and it will be the last Time that he will perform that Part

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17230117, with Wilks advertised to play Sir Harry for the last time.

Dance: As17221211

3733
20 April 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Receipts: #136 6s. The King present, on which occasion the House was prodigiously crowded (Daily Post, 23 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

Cast
Role: Punch Actor: Newhouse

3734
04 June 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With an Addition of three new Songs, and an intire New Scene. N.B. The Directors of the Royal Academy of Musick resolve not to make use of their Tickets for the Liberty of the House for this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho; King Of Germany

3735
14 June 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Days being long, the Doors will not be open'd till Five, and the Play will begin exactly at half an Hour after Six a Clock, Particular Care being taken to keep the House cool

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury; Who Was Poison'd In The Tower, In The Reign Of King James The First

Performance Comment: As17230612 but Sir George Elloways-_; Cleora-_; With the Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: With the Prologue Actor:

3736
02 September 1723 @ Richmond

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. At Penkethman's Theatre. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a diverting Droll. Box Tickets at Penkethman's House in Richmond. Daily Post, 5 Sept.: Mr Penkethman...had the Honour to divert their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, with Entertainments of Acting and Tumbling perform'd to Admiration; Likewise with his Picture of the Royal Family, down from the King of Bohemia to the young Princesses, in which is seen the Nine Muses playing on their several Instruments, in Honour of that August Family. There were present Nobility, Gentry and Ladies upwards of 200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyramus And Thisbe

Afterpiece Title: The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green; or, The Woman Never Vex'd

Music: Concerto on small Flute-John Baston

Dance: Several surprizing Entertainments of Rope Dancing-a Young Lad lately come from France, who flourishes the Colours, plays on the Violin, and turns several Times on the Rope without a Pole; Ladder Dancing-the greatest Performer in the World, who stands on the Top Round of the Ladder, drinks a Glass of Wine, with his other Hand above his Head in the Middle of the Stage; Dancing , both Serious and Comic,-Monsieur De Long Dents, Monsieur De Long Dents'@two@children , just arrived from Paris; To which will be added, Variety of Tumbling-Mons Tollard, others, just arrived from Madrid

3737
20 December 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A New Dramatick Entertainment in Grotesque Characters. N.B. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed Tickets which will be deliver'd at the Door at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #162 1s. London Journal, 28 Dec.: 'Tis said, they had not less than 260l. in the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

3738
15 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald

3739
09 April 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Pit and Boxes together at 5s. Tickets may be had at Leveridge's House in Tavistock Street. Receipts: money #19 19s. 6d.; tickets #120 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolished

Performance Comment: Beau-Legare; Linco-Leveridge; rest of parts-Salway, others.
Cast
Role: rest of parts Actor: Salway, others.

Dance: Nivelons

Song: Mrs Barbier

3740
14 April 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Philips.] Receipts: #26 19s. 6d. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 18 April: But how contemptible an Opinion must the next Generation have of this Age, if it should be known amongst them; that the first Night this Tragedy appear'd upon the Stage, it did not Bring half a House, because it happen'd to be upon a Masquerade Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Belisarius

3741
20 April 1724 @ Palace Yard

Event Comment: In Hell, alias the Exchequer Eating-House in the Palace Yard, Westminster. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Lorenzo, Gomez, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Sauny, Petruchio, Peg in The Taming of the Shrew, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, Philosophers in Love's Contrivances, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Song: Comical Songs-

3742
25 February 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: RRich's Register: No Play by reason of a great Fire yesterday at my Lord Cardigans House being next door to the Theatre

Performances

3743
24 September 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #67 4s. 6d. Daily Journal, 27 Sept.: The Gilding, Painting, Scenes and Columns of Pier Glass, rais'd for the better illuminating the Stage and other Parts of the House, gave a general Surprize and Satisfaction to the Spectators

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

3744
08 December 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear. Mist's 11 Dec.: Mr Shaw, a famous Dancer in Drury-Lane Play-House, and Son-in-Law to Mr Wilks, died last Wednesday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Booth

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Robinson

3745
22 January 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #168 4s. Mist's, 22 Jan.: The new Entertainment of Apollo and Daphne...is follow'd by such Crowds every Night that the House is not able to hold all that Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Newhouse
Role: Peasants Actor: Newhouse
Role: Satyrs Actor: Nivelon, Newhouse
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

3746
12 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Receipts: money #33 17s.; tickets #58 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 66 by moeny and 106 by tickets; P1t, 69 by money and 167 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 33 by money and 68 by tickets; second gallery 13 by money. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 15 April: Wednesday died Mr Diggs, a noted Actor at the New Play-House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

3747
25 May 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 13s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 308 paid and 73 orders; stage, 1 paid; slips, 27 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 304 paid and 1 orders; second gallery, 172 paid. Daily Journal, 25 May: We hear that this Evening the famous Captain Lemuel Gulliver is to be at...Lincoln's Inn Fields, very handsomely attended and dress'd in a rich Habit, the like of which was never seen in England before. The two Stage Boxes are kept for him and his Company....The Master of the House has promised the Captain that neither during the Play or Entertainment, any Person shall be admitted behind the Scenes, that the Captain may bot be too much press'd with the Crowd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gods of the Woods Actor: Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling
Role: Sicilians Actor: Glover, Newhouse, Lanyon, Dupre Jr
Role: Demons Actor: Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse
Role: Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

3748
07 June 1727 @ Marlborough House

Event Comment: A few days before 7 June the Drury Lane comedians presented Tamerlane at the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborugh's House in St. James's. See St. James's Evening Post, 10 June

Performances

3749
26 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear. Daily Journal, 28 Oct.: The same Night [Thursday 26] a Gentlewoman fancying she saw Smoke issue from under the Stage, as she sat in the Pit, during the Play Time,...and at the same time believing she smelt Fire, declared her Opinion so loud, and by her precipitate Endeavours to get out, gave such an Alarm all over the House, as was attended with the fatal Consequence of one Woman big with Child being press'd to Death, and several others Persons were very much bruised. [See also Daily Post, 27 Oct. A reward of #20 was offered by John Rich for the apprehension of the malicious ill designing Persons" who presumably occasioned the incident.-Daily Journal, 31 Oct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Performance Comment: King Henry-Booth; Wolsey-Cibber; Cranmer-Mills; Gardiner-Johnson; Queen Katherine-Mrs Porter.
Cast
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Mrs Porter.

3750
19 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPost Boy, 19 Nov.: We hear the Celebrated Mrs Oldfield is very Ill at her House in Grosvenor-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Sailors Actor: Burney, Oates, Wright, Wetherilt, Burnet, Grey
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald