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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Price"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Price")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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959 results for: Keyword - Price
We found 756 matches on Event Comments, 221 matches on Roles/Actors, 101 matches on Performance Comments, 15 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

326
13 April 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. And at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality the Pit and Boxes will be put together, and no Persons to be admitted but by printed Tickets...at 4s. N.B. The Tickets delivered out for the Pit, will be taken at the Gallery, and accounted for, at the Price of the Gallery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

327
26 November 1713 @ Tennis Court

Event Comment: The lowest Price 6d. The rest 1s. Pit 1s. 6d. and the Stage 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m. For the Diversion of the Quality and Gentry. [The same company performed occasionally during the winter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: Mr Gibbons's Company of French Rope Dancers; where you will see stiff Rope-little Child (about two Years and a half old) perform such wonderful things, as is surprising to all that behold him; extraordinary Dancing on the stiff Rope-A Young Maiden who dances to Admiration; Dancing on the Rope, Playing on the Violin-the famous Scaramouch lately come from France, who turns himself as if he was going on the Ground; Walking on the Slack Rope after the Italian manner-A Young Man; Lastly Tumbles-The Famous Gibbon who has had the honour to perform before most of the Courts in Europe, for Lightness, and Agility, far beyond what has ever yet been seen; You will likewise be entertained with good Musick-

328
23 January 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Music: With Symphonies-famous Signor Veracini , lately arriv'd from Italy

329
29 January 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Croesus

Music: As17140123

330
15 February 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

331
30 December 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With New Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all other Decorations, proper to the Play. At Common Prices. [Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

332
20 January 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 25 Nov. 1714. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

333
02 February 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 25 Nov. 1714. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

334
12 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 25 Nov. 1714. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

335
29 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Sir Robert Howard. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Music: As17150719

336
31 August 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Tim. Buck, to release him out of Prison. At Common Prices. Receipts: #100 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Dance: As17150823

337
07 August 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. With all the proper Decorations of Scenes, Machines, and Dances. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Music: All the Musick by Mr Weldon and perform'd Compleat, as at the Revival of the Play-

338
23 August 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With all the proper Decorations of Scenes, Machines, and Dance. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Music: As17160807

339
12 February 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Song: As17170204

340
22 April 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Command Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Song: As17170204

341
10 June 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Scenes, Machines, Songs, Dances, and all the other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

342
17 March 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. At common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

343
09 July 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Price, to relieve him out of Trouble. Mainpiece: Written by the late ingenious Mrs Behn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Song:

Dance:

344
06 August 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh and Spiller. At Common Prices. This is the last Time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Song: Oh! London Is A Fine Town-

Dance: Moreau, Cook, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Moreau, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding

345
19 January 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular desire of the Author's Friends, Two Benches of the Pit will be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Masquerade

346
16 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets will be deliver'd out at the Treasury Office at the Theatre, and no where else in the Theatre, at usual Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd; Or, Harlequin A Blunderer

347
02 June 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

348
03 June 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Price, Browne, and Elizabeth Bewley. The last Time of the Company's playing this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: The Original Dialogues-Leveridge, Pack

Dance: Wooden Shoe-Sandham, Newhouse; Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his diversion; Harlequin-delaGarde's Two Sons

Song: Mrs Fletcher, Mrs Barbier

349
21 July 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Birkhead

350
18 February 1720 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to Jacob Tonson (Vanbrugh, Works, IV, 125): The Opera will begin about the 10th of March under the Academy of Musick. It will be a very good one this year, and a better the next. They having engag'd the best Singers in Italy, at a great Price. Such as I believe will bring the Expences to about twice as much as the Receipts. But the fund Subscribed being about #20000, may probably Support it, till Musick takes such root, as to Subsist with less aid. The King gives a #1000 a year to it

Performances