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2776 results for: Keyword - P: of Wales
We found 2157 matches on Event Comments, 477 matches on Performance Comments, 29 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1251
25 October 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Play By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Lady Augusta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

1252
10 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, the Lady Augusta and the Lady Elizabeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

1253
21 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, Prince William, the Lady Augusta and Princess Elizabeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Flora

1254
09 February 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, Lady Elizabeth, and Lady Augusta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

1255
04 May 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Play by Command of their Royal highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, Prince William, Lady Augusta and Lady Elizabeth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

1256
12 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hobson. Tickets of him at the stage Door. Tomorrow, By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Merope. Receipts: #189 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: Savoyards, as17480920

Music: IV: Piece on Flute-the Child

1257
13 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #76 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: Cook, Anne Auretti

1258
25 April 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Benefit for Mr Pritchard, Treasurer. Tickets at Stage Door. Rec'd cash #116 2s., plus #91 5s. from tickets. Total #207 17s. Paid window tax at Winsors 16s. 3d.; Paid 6 chorus #1 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #210 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: SSwedish Gardeners, as17491219

1259
02 October 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

1260
08 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: As17500926

1261
29 November 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Containing the Memorable Battle of Agincourtv, with the trial and overthrow of the French Armyv, and Many other Historical Passages. [This notice repeated on subsequent performances this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or The Burgomaster Trickd

1262
13 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora Hob in the Well

1263
20 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses $the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Merlins Cave or Harlequin Skeleton

1264
17 January 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Play, By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: End: A New Grand Ballet call'd The Gondoliers-Cooke, Miss Hilliard, Jardin, Villeneuve, Desse

1265
22 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince & Pss of Wales (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Matthews, Mad Camargo, the Little Swiss

1266
08 March 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Play of Othello, which was performed last night at Drury Lane theatre, by some gentlemen and ladies to the most numerous and polite Audience that could be assembled, went off throughout with great approbation and applause (General Advertiser). [See A Satirical Dialogue between a Sea Captain and his friend in Town: Humble submitted to the Gentlemen who deformed the Play of Othello on Th-rs-y M- the 7th....To which is added a Prologue and Epilogue much more suitable to the occasion than their own. (London [n.d.], BM 11,795, K 31, 8pp): @'Good manners oblig'd them sometimes to applaud@Tho' they little deserv'd it...'@ The author laments the fact that the expenditure (#1,500) was not put out to charitable purposes, rather than for such entertainment.] This day is publish'd at 1s. 6d., beautifully printed, Alfred, a Masque, acting at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, by Mr Mallet. Printed for A. Miller, opposite Catherine St in the Strand, where may be had Alfred, a Masque, represented before their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Cliefden, on the first of August 1740. Written by Mr Thomson and Mr Mallet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

1267
16 March 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Play By Command of Prince & Princess of Wales. Play taken from the French of M de Voltaire. Never acted there before.' Pit and boxes to be laid together, where the Ladies and Gentlemen will be admitted as at the Oratorios. And for the better accommodation of the Ladies the Stage will be form'd into an amphitheatre (with particular care to keep it warm) where servants will be allowed to keep places, as also in the Pit. Ladies send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Dance: As17500926

1268
20 March 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Morning we were surpris'd with the unhappy News, that Frederick Prince of Wales Dy'd the Night before between ten & eleven-Mr Beard's Benefit was to be on Thursday & many of ye Bills were posted before we heard of this Accident the Bills were immediately torn down, & the House shut up before my Ld Chamberlain sent orders for so doing-on fryday the 5th of Ap: my Lord sent us leave to open on the 8th: being Easter Monday; it is said our having permission to open so soon, & before the prince was Bury'd was on account of the Actors Benefits depending (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

1269
14 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of His Majesty. We hear that His Majesty will be this night at Covent Garden, as also His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

1270
10 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. On Saturday night his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was at Covent Garden, where his presence gave such Pleasure, that a general Joy diffused itself in the breasts of the Audience, as might be easily discerned in all their countenances (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

1271
24 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. [The second meeting at the Temple of Taste advertised for the following Wednesday in the General Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

1272
04 November 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Yesterday George Frederick Handel, Esq; was couch'd by William Bromfield, Esq; Surgeon to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, when it was thought there was all imaginable hopes of success by the Operation, which must give the greatest pleasure to all lovers of Music

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

1273
06 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of The Prince of Wales. A new Scene was introduc'd of Beasts in Mr Rich's Entertainment as an Ostrich a Lyon, Dog, Monkey, 2 small Ostrichs & A Figure like Maddox upon ye Wire & writ up ye new Company of Comedians Hiss'd a good Deal (Cross). [See cg 2 Nov.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Harlequin Ranger

Dance: II: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; IV: L'Entree de Flore-Mad Auretti

1274
18 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

1275
04 December 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. In the afterpiece Being the Last time of Mr Maddox's performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Dance: Maranesi, Sga Bugiani